St. Mary's Anglican Church: Sanctuary; front
1268 Italy Cross Road
Crousetown, NS, CA
Images
ca. 2017 - RCCO Organ Recognition Plaque (Photograph by David M. Storey/Jim Stettner)
ca. 2017 - Reservoir with feeder (Photograph by David M. Storey/Jim Stettner)
ca. 2017 - Keydesk: left stopjamb (Photograph by David M. Storey/Jim Stettner)
ca. 2017 - Keydesk: right stopjamb (Photograph by David M. Storey/Jim Stettner)
ca. 2017 - Keydesk (Photograph by David M. Storey/Jim Stettner)
ca. 2017 - Interior pipework (Photograph by David M. Storey/Jim Stettner)
ca. 2017 - Case front removed showing interior pipework and wind system (Photograph by David M. Storey/Jim Stettner)
ca. 2017 - View of organ across chancel (Photograph by David M. Storey/Jim Stettner)
ca. 2017 - Organ case (Photograph by David M. Storey/Jim Stettner)
ca. 2018 - Organ case (Photograph from an archival source: Church website, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
ca. 2018 - View up center aisle; organ visible on the left (Photograph from an archival source: Parish website, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
ca. 2018 - Left-side interior showing organ at front, left (Photograph from an archival source: Parish website, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
Consoles
Keydesk
- Console position: Keydesk Attached
- 1 manuals
- 4 stops
- 1 divisions
- Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
- Stop action Type: Mechanical
- Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
- Manual compass: 58 notes
- Pedal Type: No Pedalboard
- Expression Type: No Enclosed Divisions
- Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Notes
2018-08-14 - Identified through online information from David M Storey. -- Updated by David M Storey, who maintains the organ. <br>This is a G compass manual <br>Organ originally installed in the Trinity Anglican church in Liverpool, NS. Moved to Western Head, NS, then to St. Mary's Crousetown, NS. There are two combination pedals. One engages the Principal and Fifteenth moving the knobs on. The other pedal retires them. The organ is pumped by foot with a singe wedge feeder on the double rise bellows. The organ has never had an electric blower attached to it. -Database Manager
2021-10-23 - Identified by James R. Stettner, listing conversations with this person as the source of the information: David M. Storey, who rebuilt the organ. The organ has received restorative repairs on several occasions at the hands of David M. Storey. -- note from ORGAN ID 60684. November 10, 2017 -Paul R. Marchesano
2024-11-20 - Dr. Robert Crouse found the organ at an antique dealer in the area who said the organ had no value. He purchased the bench and the dealer "threw in the organ." He then paid for its restorative repairs and donated it to St. Mary's Church. -- information from personal conversation with Fr. Edward L. Rix, a personal friend and colleague of Dr. Crouse.
From Crousetown Baroque Concerts website:
Dr. Robert Crouse started the Crousetown Baroque Concerts in 1962 as an informal way to share music with the community and to make good use of a recently acquired pipe organ. In addition to being a scholar and a priest, Father Crouse was also a talented musician, whose influence was felt both in Chapel worship, in his assistance as organist in the parishes of Petite Riviere and New Dublin and in his Crousetown special choral services. -Paul R. Marchesano
Stoplist
Source: Taken from console
MANUAL (GG to f in alt, no GG#, 58 notes) Open Diapason [8'] (58 pipes), Stop'd Diapason [8'] (58 pipes (wood)), Principal [4'] (58 pipes), Fifteenth [2'] (58 pipes)
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