ca. 1926 - Church exterior before the steeple was removed after a lightning strike (Photograph from an archival source: unknown, submitted by Scot Huntington/Scot Huntington)
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2021-09-07 - Notes by Scot Huntington. -- Originally built for the Duane Mansion in Duanesburg, New York. At an unknown date late 19th century, the organ was moved to the Presbyterian church in Worcester, New York, about 35 miles distant. The organ served there until it was replaced by a two-manual Estey in the 1930s, and the organ was moved again here to the Presbyterian church in Middlefield Center, about 12 miles west. When the church closed in the late 1960's, the organ was sold to radio station KRAB in Seattle, Washington. -Jim Stettner
2021-09-14 - Robert Rowland is identified in the Rowland opus list as the person moving the organ to Middlefield Center, in the book "Only His Organs Remain", by Richard Triumpho (2011). A quote from Rowland's recollection correspondence about his work to Albert Robinson, editor of*The Tracker*. He refers to the organ as "an old thing with about four ranks of pipes and resembling a bureau". He further states he put some dummy pipes in place of the center pleated cloth "to make it look like a real pipe organ". -Scot Huntington
2021-10-24 - Correction to an earlier post after discussion with a previous owner. Following the closing of the church in Middlefield Center in the mid, not late 1960s, the organ was rescued by a local organbuilder who owned the organ for a year two before selling the organ through the Organ Clearing House to the Seattle radio station. At an unknown date but before the organ arrived in Middlefield, the organ of 5 ranks had lost its Open Diapason 8'. When Rowland moved the organ here, he installed a second-hand set of stringy Gamba pipes on the empty Diapason toeboard. The historic Greek Revival Middlefield church was converted to a residence and has been allowed to deteriorate to an unfortunate degree since. -Scot Huntington
Source: Organ Clearing House catalog page. ca. 1982
Robert S. Rowland (1937)
Moving and altering 1830s Geo. Jardine fr. residence Duanesburg
via Worcester, NY
Presbyterian Church
Middlefield Center, New York
Enclosed, hitchdown pedal
1 octave of pedal pulldowns
Compass: GGG,AAA-f58
Hand pumped
Gamba tenor-f, 2nd-hand via Rowland*
St. Diap. Treble tenor-f, wood
St. Diap. Bass GGG,AAA to tenor-e
Dulciana tenor-f
Principal
Fifteenth
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