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Tellers-Kent Organ Co. Opus 352 (1925)

St. Paul's Episcopal Church
99 S. Erie St.
Mayville, NY

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2013-02-26 - Console (Eric Miller/Eric Miller)

Consoles

Chancel


Notes

2021-04-26 - The organ is installed in a left=front chancel chamber in this historic building. The instrument is an 8' and 4' organ of approximately 8 ranks, but shortly before I first saw this organ as a freshman in college in 1972, the local service technician of particularly modest ability installed a Cymbale mixture on an electro-mechanical chest, unenclosed. The "mixture" consisted of three ranks of high-pitched pipes, one octave only (36 pipes total), which repeated every octave. The effect was predictably an oil and water combination. It was the most unmusical excuse for a mixture tacked onto a cigars and brandy organ that this writer has ever seen. -Scot Huntington

2021-04-26 - This entry corrects an incorrect fact from a distant memory in the previous update: the organ is in a right-front chamber with facades facing both the nave and the chancel. A 2021 Facebook photo of the chancel shows the wall hanging "mini-cymbale" to have been removed, and a console on the left oriented with the organist facing the congregation. Further investigation is needed to determine if the 1925 organ is still intact, or has been modified or replaced. -Scot Huntington


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