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Kohl Organ Co.

Trinity Episcopal Church
520 S Main Street
Geneva, NY

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)


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Notes

2019-01-28 - This describes a rebuild of an existing organ. <br>Identified by David Lenington, who gave this as the source of the information: Newspaper: Geneva Daily Times, Sept. 27, 1926.<br>Previous tracker action electrified. New console. -Database Manager

2021-04-07 - In 2018 the congregation decided they could not afford to maintain the building and sold it to a developer. The church complex will be adapted into a hotel and restaurant, but the development organization will maintain the sanctuary, allowing the congregation to meet there on Sundays and liturgical holidays. During the renovation, the congregation is meeting at a downtown storefront. As part of the dissolution, the congregation sold off their historic, one of a kind Redstone chamber organ-- the oldest surviving example of the New York City school of organbuilding. -Scot Huntington

2021-04-07 - The church interior was burned out in a major fire ca. 1933 and rebuilt. The Cole & Woodberry/Kohl was destroyed. Wicks Organ Co. Op. 1150, a 3-manual of 21 ranks, was installed in the original chamber within the restored church in 1933. -Scot Huntington

2023-03-16 - Gleaned from a 1947 booklet "Historical Sketches and guide to Trinity Church" In 1926, a benefactor approached the Rector, offering to donate a carillon for the church tower. The Rector asked if the benefactor would pay to have the tracker organ rebuilt. An electro-pneumatic action was installed as well as an echo organ in the tower and in the sacristy. (The sacristy organ may have been a rank of pipes, on a separate chest, to provide the choir back up as they entered the church singing. At St. Luke's Church, Baltimore, a passage through the lower part of the organ is the main passage between chancel and sacristy. The 3-man. Roosevelt's choir box, is nearest to the sacristy. A 2' square hatch door was inserted in this part of the choir box, which the organist could open, letting the sound enter the sacristy, while the choir shades remained shut, thus providing pitch support to the choir, as they entered the church or chancel singing.) -Steve Bartley


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