Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2023-02-08 - This entry represents the installation of a new organ. Identified from the Boadway Hinners opus list. -Jim Stettner
2023-05-06 - "Heyworth" (column), *Bloomington Weekly Pantagraph*, Friday, January 17, 1913, 9, Newspapers.com, accessed May 6, 2023, https://www.newspapers.com/image/69076740. --A series of special meetings commenced at the Presbyterian church, Monday night, with Rev. Mr. Corey, the pastor, in charge. Rev. W. S. Healey, of Jerseyville, will have charge of the music. The new pipe organ for the church will arrive ready to be installed about February 1. "Heyworth" (column), *Bloomington Weekly Pantagraph*, Friday, February 7, 1913, 9, Newspapers.com, accessed May 6, 2023, https://www.newspapers.com/image/899156141. --The pipe organ purchased a short time ago from Pekin parties for the Presbyterian church, will be shipped this week and will be ready to dedicate on Sunday, February 16. The date of the recital to be given after the dedication will be announced later. "Heyworth" (column), *Bloomington Weekly Pantagraph*, Friday, February 21, 1913, 9, Newspapers.com, accessed May 6, 2023, www.newspapers.com/image/69076790. --The new pipe organ at the Presbyterian church was dedicated Sunday. Prof. Rolf, of Pekin, rendered several selections on the instrument. "Heyworth Presbyterians to Dedicate New Organ," *Bloomington Pantagraph*, Saturday, June 22, 1963, 7, Newspapes.com, accssed May 6, 2023, https://www.newspapers.com/image/72333131. **HEYWORTH--** The pastor and congregation of the Heyworth Presbyterian Church will dedicate a new organ Sunday which was recently installed to replace an instrument which had served their church for half a century. The new instrument is a large console-type electronic organ, in which conventional tubes have been replaced by transistors. . . . The new organ replaces a simpler 5-octave pipe organ installed in 1913 by a Pekin organ builder. Throughout the 50 years in which it provided the music for church services, the old organ was played by Miss Esther Lake. She will continue as church organist with the installation of the new instrument. [This article is accompanied by a photograph with the following caption: "Miss Esther Lake, a veteran organist at Heyworth's Presbyterian Church, is shown at the keyboard of new organ which will be dedicated at the church Sunday. Miss Lake has been church organist for 50 years." A pipe facade is visible above the console.] The destruction of the Hinners was reported in Pat Wegner, "The Heyworth Hinners Now Gone!" *The Tracker* 16, no. 4 (Summer 1972): 15: Early in 1963, while on an organ hunt in the area around Bloomington, Illinois, I played a six or seven rank one-manual Hinners tracker action organ in the First Presbyterian Church of Heyworth, Illinois. Several months later I learned that it had been destroyed and replaced by an electronic substitute. . . . The destruction of the organ was deliberate, accomplished by the representative who removed it. As far as I know, the only part of the organ to survive was the Flute 4' which was obtained with some difficulty by a young man for incorporation into a residence organ Wegner described the organ as follows: The sound was quite adequate for the building, and the flute ranks were especially delightful. While it was in obvious need of mechanical repairs, the organ was by no means beyond restoration. I was told at the time that the organ was built around 1910 and that the two Pedal stops were one rank of pipes on a two-pressure system. Unfortunately, I did not have the opportunity to inspect the interior of the instrument. -Charles Eberline
2023-05-06 - Organ installed and dedicated in 1913; 1912 was probable contract date. -Charles Eberline
Source: Pat Wegner, "The Heyworth Hinners Now Gone!" <i>The Tracker</i> 16, No. 4 (Summer 1972): 15 (presumably copied from the console). Summer 1972
MANUAL Open Diapason 8, Liebl. Gedeckt 8, Viola d'Gamba 8, Aeoline 8, Flute 4, Tremolo, Octave Coupler
PEDAL Bourdon 16, Soft Bourdon Bass 16, Pedal Coupler
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