2022-06-15 - Organ facade and console (Photograph from an archival source: 2023 OHS Handbook, Len Levasseur, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)
OHS convention: 2023
2018-02-27 - Updated by Matthew Whitfield, who has heard or played the organ. -Database Manager
2023-08-08 - Conrad Grimes, then Associate Professor of Organ at the University of Manitoba, served First Presbyterian as organist and was a friend of Christ Lutheran. With his help, and through the Organ Clearing House with Alan Laufman, the church became aware that a tracker organ of two manuals and pedal was available. This was the Geo. S. Hutchings Op. 426 (1896), which had been removed from a Unitarian congregation in Boston and stood semi-assembled in the organ shop of the Stuart Organ Co. under the direction of Richard Hedgebeth (1944–2019). The pipes were not installed but were stored in groups around the side of the instrument. Using the Hutchings organ as a foundation, Richard Hedgebeth rebuilt the instrument as Stuart Organ Co. Op. 30R. It represents Hedgebeth’s only installation outside the United States. With the closure of the Christ Lutheran congregation in 2014, the organ was gifted, along with dismantling costs, to St. John’s Norway, where the Alan T. Jackson Co. installed it in 2018. -- *2023 OHS Handbook* -Paul R. Marchesano
Source: 2023 OHS Handbook
I. GREAT (61 notes, C–c4) Open Diapason 8, Bourdon 8, Principal 4, Mixture IV 2 (244 pipes), Dual-position slider
II. SWELL (61 notes, C–c4, enclosed) Stopped Diapason 8, Viola 8, Viola Celeste 8 (49 pipes), Flute 4, Nazard 2⅔ (49 pipes), Fifteenth 2, Tierce 1⅗ (49 pipes), Nineteenth 1⅓ (49 pipes), Trumpet 8, Tremulant
PEDAL (30 notes, C–f1) Principal 8, Choral Bass 4, Trombone 16, Sub Bass 16
Couplers & Mechanical Accessories Great and Swell to Pedal 8, Swell to Great 8, Zimbelstern (added 1995), Balanced Swell pedal, Flat non-radiating pedalboard, Mechanical key and stop action, Detached console
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