2022-06-15 - Organ in gallery (Photograph from an archival source: 2023 OHS Handbook, Len Levasseur, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)
OHS convention: 2023
2004-10-30 - The original builder was Gabriel Kney (ca. 1986, Opus 101). -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1999 -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - From Gordon Jeffrey residence, London, ON. Façade will be redesigned. -Database Manager
2023-07-21 - Gordon D. Jeffery, BA, FRCCO (HON), is responsible for the Kney organ that now stands in the Church of the Holy Family. Jeffery studied with Charles Peaker, Healey Willan, and Ernest White. He was registrar for the Canadian College of Organists from 1942 and then president of the Royal Canadian College of Organists from 1955 to 1957. His considerable wealth derived from his profession as a lawyer and the family connection with the London Life Insurance Company. Few of Jeffery’s associates in the organ field knew of his skill as a skater. In 1953 he traveled to Oslo, Norway, as Canadian judge for the World Championship figure skating contests. On the same trip he gave six concerts as organist and conductor. Jeffery’s accomplishments as a patron of the arts included the conversion of a church into Aeolian Hall, London, Ontario; installation there of the Aeolian-Skinner organ from St. Mary the Virgin, New York; the purchase of the old London Town Hall after the first Aeolian Hall burned in 1968; and the installation of a Kney organ in the second Aeolian Hall. The organ given to Holy Family Church by the estate of Gordon Jeffery was yet another organ, one which he had commissioned for a large music room attached to his home in London, Ontario. Most of its stops were rescaled by Halbert Gober, since the pipes were built with small scales more suitable for a house organ. All ranks were newly voiced for the church’s acoustic, and a new façade matches the original Rückpositiv façade. The Choir Organ is a floating division on an electric slider chest. Pedal pipes and chests for four stops came from a studio organ built by Ernest White, a native of London, Ontario. White studied with Willan and MacMillan and then, in 1927, with Lynnwood Farnam in New York. He was organist and music director at St. Mary the Virgin, New York City, for twenty-five years. He also became a tonal director for M.P. Möller, Inc. -- *2023 OHS Handbook* -Paul R. Marchesano
Source: 2023 OHS Handbook
I. GREAT ORGAN (58 notes, C–a3) Bourdon* 16, Praestant 8, Rohrflöte 8, Octav 4, Offenflöte 4, Quinteflöte 2⅔, Octav 2, Terz 1⅗, Mixture IV 1⅓ (232 pipes), Zimbel II ½ (116 pipes), Trompete 8 (1–12 half-length), 3 spare stop buttons
III. RÜCKPOSITIV (58 notes, C–a3) Gedackt 8, Praestant 4, Octav 2, Blockflöte 1, Scharff III 1 (174 pipes), Tremulant
II. SWELL ORGAN (58 notes, C–a3, enclosed) Bourdon* 16 (Gt.), Bourdon* 8 (ext. Gt. 16ʹ), Flûte 8 (harmonic from a1), Gamba 8 (1–16 Haskells), Céleste 8 (37 notes from a), Prinzipal 4, Flûte 4 (harmonic from g), Nasat 2⅔, Octavin 2, Tierce 1⅗, Plein jeu V 2 (290 pipes), Basson 16 (1–12 half-length), Trompette 8, Hautbois 8, Voix Humaine 8, Clairon 4, Tremulant, 3 spare stop buttons
IV. CHOIR ORGAN (58 notes, C–a3, enclosed) Bourdon* 16 (Gt.), Bourdon* 8 (ext. Gt. 16ʹ), Offenflöte* 8, Salizional* 8 (1–12 Haskells), Celeste 8 (46 pipes, t.c.), Offenflöte* 4, Quint* 2⅔, Blockflöte* 2, Terz* 1⅗, Krummhorn* 8, Ventil, Tremulant, 6 spare stop buttons
PEDAL ORGAN (32 notes, C–g1) Subbass* 16 (24 pipes, 1–8 Gt. 16ʹ), Bourdon* 16 (Gt.), Bassflöte* 8 (12 pipes, ext. Ped. Subbass 16ʹ), Prinzipal 8 (26 pipes, 1–6 ext. Gt. Praestant 8ʹ), Quint 5⅓, Choralbass 4, Mixture III* 2⅔ (96 pipes), Cornet III* 3⅕ (96 pipes), Posaune* 16, 12 spare stop buttons
COUPLERS Great, Swell, Rückpositiv, and Choir to Pedal 8, Swell, Rückpositiv, and Choir to Great 8, Choir to Swell 8, Swell to Rückpositiv 8
COMBINATION PISTONS (Solid-state logic electronic, 8 levels) Great, Swell, and Rückpositiv/Choir 1–6 (thumb), Pedal 1–6 (toe), General 1–6 (thumb, toe), General 7–12 (thumb), General cancel, Adjuster, 6 manual reversibles, 6 pedal reversibles, Full Organ (thumb and toe reversible)
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