Database Manager on February 26th, 2017:
Updated by Scot Huntington, the builder. <br>The organ was heavily rebuilt by Howard Marsh in 1975-76, with recycled pedal pipes and components purchased from the Schlicker Organ Company. Howard Marsh, once an employee of the Schlicker company early in its existence- a profession he left to become an educator- was at the time of the renovation the Dean of Fine Arts at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Fredonia. There were several students of the School of Music who assisted with the project, including this author. <br>There are many mysteries surrounding the state of this organ and its installation in Manlius, and it is possible this was not the original home of the instrument. The Greek Revival case was devoid of ornamentation, with five rectangular flats of half-round wooden dummies which had been painted white, but were once gilded. The case was also painted white, but a part of the right case side, installed flush against the right-front wall of the sanctuary, was faux-grained. The simple and unornamented case is similar to early cases of Alvinza Andrews, then of Waterville, New York, and nearly identical to the Alvinza Andrews organ once in the Frankfort Baptist Church, rescued by organbuilder Sid Chase and until lately installed in Worcester, New York. Oral church history thinks the organ was originally installed in a rear gallery and later moved to the front of the historic church when the chancel was added. The organ has been replaced with an electronic imitation, and was relocated through the Organ Clearing House; rebuilt as a new organ with old parts by Jeremy Cooper in the mid-late 1990s. <br>The windchest was older than the organ, and was originally G-compass- now with unused bass channels. There were many internal details indicating the organ was a c-compass rebuilding of an older instrument, and a projecting keydesk replacing one originally recessed inside the case. The pipework was enclosed with horizontal shades operated by hitch-down pedal. Originally hand-pumped, the pumping mechanism was modified to a different location when the organ was moved to the front of the church, and an electric blower was added sometime in the 20th century. The pre-1976 pedal compass was 13-notes with an octave of 16' pipes, and was added during the 19th-century conversion. <br>The rebuilding in 1976 considerably changed the character of the organ, and while considered a "restoration" was typical for the time, being an "upgrading" of perceived shortcomings. <br>The 1976 rebuilding replaced the original double-rise reservoir with a modern floating top regulator, a new Ventus blower replaced the old unit, tuning slides were installed and the pipes shortened to raise the pitch to A440, the center three sections of wooden dummy pipes were removed and replaced with grille cloth, the pedal board was replaced with one having a larger compass, and the coupler was similarly expanded, the compass of the pedal Bourdon was similarly increased with spurious wood pipes. The voicing of the manual pipework was unaltered.

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Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
Status Note: There 1976.

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Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
Altered. Restored [Who?] Marsh in 1976. [Is builder attribution correct. On older OHS lists as unknown, 1-6.]