Austin Organ Co.
Opus 1423, 1920s

Austin Job No. 1423 is listed in their work list as a four-rank unit organ built for the St. Joseph's Convent of Hartford. The Gilead instrument was installed in the early 1960s by a member of the Austin staff moonlighting as an independent contractor and the installation is remembered as having taking an inordinately long time. The organ was reportedly renovated by a local technician in 1995, and then rebuilt by the Faucher Organ Co. in 2018 as their Op. 55 with the addition of a 7-rank Great. While the builder's website does not state as such, this would now appear to be a hybrid pipe and digital imitation instrument.

Information identifying this instrument from the Austin Organs, Inc. web site, accessed December 29, 2004: http://www.austinorgans.com/organ-research.htm.