after 2005 - Reconfigured chancel with 2001 replacement console (Organ History .pdf document on church website/Jim Stettner)
ca. 2021 - Console (Organ History .pdf document on church website/Jim Stettner)
2025-03-10 - This entry represents the 'hybridizing' of the existing pipe organ with a replacement Rodgers console. The .pdf Organ History document available on the church website states, "By 2000, the 1951 console was showing signs of aging. A committee was therefore formed to consider the future of the entire organ. There were three main areas of concern: (1) options for console repair or replacement, (2) planning for maintenance and repair of the loft, choir area, chests, and pipes and (3) planning for replacement or expansion of pipes. The aim was to develop a long-term development plan that would allow the present congregation to pass on to future generations an instrument in such a condition that it would be a valued asset and not a liability. This would require retention of as many historical parts of the instrument (our only physical link with our original building) as possible, with rebuilding and renovation that ensured a unified and ensemble sound appropriate to the organ and the building." "The pneumatic combination action (a dead-end technology developed in the 1920s) of the console, precluded rebuilding. After lengthy debate and consideration of tenders from builders of both traditional and digital organs, a “hybrid” option was chosen, controlled by a Rodgers T967 console. With a hybrid instrument, the organist has the choice of using pure wind-driven pipes alone, pipes supplemented by digital voices, or digital voices alone. In addition, the digital console produces non-pipe organ voices for use in contemporary worship. The construction of hybrid organs can be controversial within the pipe organ community. One school of thought maintains that the sound from a pipe organ should come from pipes alone. However the flexible configuration chosen by St. Andrew’s puts control of this question into the hands of the individual organist themselves: those who do not view digital voices as appropriate enhancement to a pipe organ need not activate them, but those willing to accept them may use as few or as many digital voices as they choose. The new console was installed by Dr. Micheal Perkins for Rodgers and Mr. Dan Miller, from the Rodgers factory in Oregon, performed an inaugural recital in Sept 2001 to celebrate completion of this phase of rebuilding." -Jim Stettner
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