Harold B. Curryer
1980s

Database Manager on April 28th, 2007:
Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- This was a project of tonal substitutions to the existing 1929 Estey. A new, homemade, electro-mechanical unit chest was added to the Swell by Mr. Curryer. The "new" stop was called 2' Fifteenth, but the pipes are not entirely principal in tone and are a mix of six different makes of used pipes. The first 37 pipes are three different makes of stopped woods labeled, "St Diap", "Fl Am", and "Gr 293". Notes 38 thru 44 are two different ranks of open metal principal pipes labeled "Octave" and "Fifteenth." Notes 45 thru 61 are marked "Piccolo" and are harmonic. The original 8' Aeoline stop was replaced by this added register, and the Aeoline stop wire was used to turn-on the Reisner gang switch. The Aeoline pipes are still present on their original toeboard, but are unused and silent. The console was not releathered, nor were the pedal chests. In 1994, Meadway & Stettner releathered the console coupler pneumatics. At some undocumented time, but likely while the organ was under Mr. Curryer's care, the original Swell 8' Vox Humana was replaced with a used set of Estey labial Oboe pipes of unknown provenance. It was originally a tenor C set, so a used, canistered, Salicional bass was provided from another undocumented source. Tenor C of the labial Oboe is marked, "Oboe/a 513/W. McLaughlin/July 1905." Bass CC of the removed Vox Humana is marked, "943/6" wind/2-14-28/R.C.L." The Vox Humana was donated to St. Ann's R.C. Cathedral in October 1995 to replace their badly damaged original Reuter Vox Humana. Source: extant organ, June 28, 1994 and subsequent visits.