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Unknown Builder (2002 before)

First United Methodist Church: Sanctuary; front
5 Chestnut Ave.
Dansville, NY

Images


December 2022 - Original Moller console showing evidence of alteration (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Scot Huntington/Scot Huntington)

December 2022 - Sanctuary (the organ speaks through the grilles in the chancel ceiling) (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Scot Huntington/Scot Huntington)

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Notes

2013-03-15 - Altered and relocated existing organ. Identified by Eric Miller, based on personal knowledge of the organ. -- -Database Manager

2013-04-02 - updated through information from Eric Miller: -- I don't know anything further about the organ or how it got here. I just happened to be there for a wedding in 2002! -Database Manager

2024-01-03 - This is second-hand information that I have not been able to confirm as to the date or party responsible for the move. This organ was originally built for the Canisteo, N.Y. Presbyterian church, which still retains the case to hide the speakers of the imitation instrument which replaced it. It may have been moved as early as the mid-90s. In the original location, The Great and Swell stacked were at the right front, in an extremely cramped, free-standing installation. The Echo was in a closet chamber at the second-floor rear. It is not known who moved the organ, whether amateurs or professionals, whether the organ was altered at the new location, received any badly-needed restorative repairs, or even whether it was installed intact including the Echo. The black tape on a disturbing number of stop tabs is indicative of amateur work and suggests that a large swath of Great and Pedal stops are either missing, inoperative, or replaced with something else. The organ is installed in two chambers speaking into the ceiling of the chancel in this over-carpeted and acoustically dead sanctuary. It is not known what the Moller replaced at this location. -Scot Huntington


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