Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2023-11-06 - Perhaps the most unique element of the organ manufacturing company (The Waghorne Company) of the Rev. A. Earle Waghorne was that, in the case of two of the pipe organs, he engaged the entire congregation in the manufacturing process. The first organ was built and installed on June 15, 1933 in a small rural church (Mandaumin United Church) in the hamlet of Mandaumin, Ontario a few miles directly east of Sarnia. He had mentioned to a few of the members that he had the ability to construct a pipe organ. He asked for permission to build a pipe organ in the sanctuary. The members agreed. When Rev. Waghorne was called to Riverside United Church in Windsor in 1938, the congregation asked if they could buy the the organ. Subscription by members of the church and the wider community raised Rev. Waghorne’s asking price of $400 -- in the midst of the Depression! That is how a small, rural church obtained its own custom-made pipe organ. Rev. Waghorne supervised the entire construction from the manufacture of the sheet metal pipes to the wooden pipes. The women got the job of doing all the felt and leather cutting and gluing. In April, 1956, the front and chancel area of Mandaumin United Church suffered a fire caused by the wood-burning furnace. The fire was extinguished, the building was nearly all saved -- a notable exception was the pipe organ of which the congregation was quite proud. Other than a few components that were saved, the organ was destroyed. It was the only pipe organ that Mandaumin United Church ever had. Mandaumin United Church closed on June 26, 2016. He even invented a handy gadget for use in the pipe organ, and it was patented on Apr. 4, 1933. The pipe organ needed some kind of device to help push air through the pipes quickly and easily because it was hard and slow for the organist to play the notes by himself/herself. So, Earle invented an electro-magnetic device that required only a little bit of pressure to make it open the pipes. He submitted the schematics of his organ design for the electro-magnetic device of the *Organ Triumphant* which he patented through the Commissioner of Patents for the Dominion of Canada. The design had been submitted on Dec. 18, 1931. The patent was granted on Apr. 4, 1933. Patent Number: 331423. (He didn’t actually try to patent the name *Organ Triumphant*, as far as I know.) Text of the brochure that Rev. Waghorne (also a publisher and job printer) designed and printed himself: Builders of *The Organ Triumphant* (Direct electric action) Sarnia*, Ont. Genuine Church Pipe Organs Pipe Organs (Single manual with two manual and pedal effect) at a price usually paid for a good reed organ "This little folder is merely to point out the fact that owing to an entirely new invention by our Mr. A. E. Waghorne (Rev. A. Earle Waghorne) and patented by him, a greatly simplified system of organ construction is being followed by us, whereby we have eliminated the costly and troublesome little bellows and purses, called the pneumatics, and operate our valves by an electro-magnet direct. The patent is the result of 32 years work and experimenting. The greatest result from the commercial stand-point is the tremendous reduction in the price of pipe organs, a genuine church organ now costing only what a good piano or reed organ costs. But from the standpoint of art, the great achievement of this invention is the reversion to pure tone, secured only by the old masters of ‘tracker action’ fame. Through the use of low wind pressure* (on which pneumatics will not work) we have now achieved the ideal tone, lost to the last generation of builders, but dreamed of by all true artists. Plan to hear one of our organs, and have a treat." * Sarnia is the largest centre closest to Mandaumin - Ian Mason, a great grandson of the Rev. Earle Waghorne -Ian Mason
Set of 15 chimes. The stoprail, the manual and the set of chimes were all that was saved from the fire that destroyed the pulpit platform, choir loft and the organ of Mandaumin United Church in April, 1956. Source: Taken from the remaining stoprail. The surviving stop tabs may not signify the full complement.
Great (Electro-magnetic stop action) Diapason 8, Stopped Diapason 8, Dulciana 8, Stopped Flute 8, Violone 16, Principal 4, Shepherd's Flute 4
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