2012-02-26 - Identified through online information from Will Carter. -Database Manager
2012-02-27 - Updated through online information from Will Carter. -Database Manager
2012-02-29 - Updated through online information from Will Carter. -Database Manager
2015-04-18 - Updated through online information from Scot Huntington. -- The new case and carvings were actually constructed by a very skilled, local cabinetmaker. The speaking Estey façade pipes are from Op. 358, 1906 and replace those remaining behind with the original case in Kent. The entire organ is enclosed in a single swell box with the exception of the Open Diapason. -Database Manager
2020-12-11 - The organ was given to the Smithfield Church by the First Congregational Church of Kent, Connecticut when they decided to replace their real pipe organ with a computer imitation. The original facade and casework needed to stay behind to hide the new speakers. The grateful Smithfield congregation was very involved in the relocation process and this is their first pipe organ. The singularly exceptional Greek Revival church in the style of an ancient temple was built in 1848 and is an unexpected jewel in this deeply rural locale. The organ occupies a niche at the rear of the church, and was originally installed unenclosed in 2008. The unusual and very fine Greek revival case was built locally and was added in 2010. The Estey facade pipes were recycled from the First Prebyterian Church of Holyoke, Massachusetts. It is hoped the accompanimental Dulciana will one day replace the spurious 1976 Aiken Fifteenth. -Scot Huntington
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Amenia, New York 12501
The Smithfield Church (Presbyterian)
Organ by Johnson & Son, Opus 796, 1893
relocated with new case and façade by Stephen Russell, 2008
GREAT ORGAN SWELL ORGAN
8 Open Diapason (tc) 8 Viola Diapason (tc)
8 Open Diapason Bass (CC-BB)(facade) 8 Stopt Diapason (tc)
4 Octave 8 Stopt Diapason Bass(CC-BB)
4 Flute D'Amour (tc) 4 Fugara
2 Fifteenth
Blowers Signal PEDAL ORGAN
16 Sub Bass
Pedal Check
Gt/Pd, Sw/Pd, Sw/Gt
Manuals 58 notes
Pedal 27 Notes
Relocated in 2008 from the Congregational Church in Kent, Connecticut, the instrument is entirely original with
the exception of the Fifteenth, and the concave, radiating 32-note pedalboard created by Charles Aitkin in 1976.
The Johnson Open Diapason Bass remained in its original location, thus new casework, facade, and water-gilt
carving were designed by Stephen Russell and completed in 2010. The stenciled facade pipes were originally in
the Estey organ in First Presbyertian
Church, Holyoke, Massachusetts. The organ is used very extensively in services and concerts by a wide-range of organists.
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