2016-03-03 - This is a rebuild of an existing organ. Identified by Ian Mason, using information from this web site: http://www.dodington.com/rebuilds.html#Chatham. <br><br>Knox Presbyterian Church in St. Thomas was built in 1882. Charles Sumner Warren of Toronto installed the first pipe organ in Knox in 1885. The assets of the C. S. Warren Co. were purchased by D. W. Karn of Woodstock, Ont. in 1896, forming the Karn-Warren firm. The 1885 Warren was enlarged and rebuilt from mechanical to electro-pneumatic pitman action in 1910 and was one of the earliest examples of this new type of manual pipe valve design.<br><br>The façade was rebuilt using pipes from the Warren case. The Woodstock Organ Company, formerly Karn-Warren, rebuilt the organ with a new console in 1930. The instrument was rebuilt again in 1968 by Guy Dubé, formerly of Casavant. New direct-electric pipe valve action replaced the troublesome pitman system and a new console was installed. The Antiphonal division was installed in the gallery in 1981, adding a fourth manual. This new division necessitated the installation of a 4-manual console.<br><br>The church found a 1947 Moller in Buffalo, New York. This Antiphonal division is the old Swell division from a 1923 Casavant from St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Toronto, which was torn down.The façade for this division uses pipes from the 1917 Casavant built for Christ Church Deer Park in Toronto. (Source: Dodington website) -Database Manager
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