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Updated through online information from John McCraney. -- This is my memory of the original organ before changes. The organ was intact and functioning until about 1990. According to the church's website, the changed instrument is still there. 2-manual/pedal Möller Manuals 61 notes; Pedal 30 or 32 There were six general combination pistons that were set with a knob that moved among six six slots to the left of the swell manual. This system was still working well at least until circa 1990.
Balanced swell pedal; crescendo pedal
All manual ranks were straight and, except for the Great [Open ?] Diapason, were duplexed on both manuals--no unification.
All was enclosed in a chamber to the left of the chancel, with larger shutters behind gold dummy pipes near the altar and smaller shutters behind gold dummy pipes above a transept door into the chamber. The choir sat in the transept.
The organ was given by the Giles Cover family, who had founded and ran the local tannery. This family seems to have been a major force behind the founding of the church. The church's website had interior photos last year.
All manual ranks seemed to be 73 notes to follow super couplers throughout the compass.
Updated through on-line information from Jack Davis. -- In 1996 and 1999, the organ was rebuilt by Jack Davis and Covenant Organs, adding 56 ranks of Musicom digital voices, culminating in a combination of Willis and Wanamaker voices. The pipework is original and tonally unaltered.
Identified from factory documents and publications courtesy of Stephen Schnurr.
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