Scot Huntington on April 19th, 2022:
This may be a either a confused entry for this church, as there is an identical entry for the Homer Methodist Church, or an organ dating from ca. 1922 when a one-manual organ is moved from this church to Trinity Episcopal in Dryden, New York, and an instrument by Stevens of Moravia might have replaced it at that time. A one-manual instrument attributed to this church around 1870, is now in St. Matthew's Episcopal in Horseheads, New York, several times rebuilt and moved there in 2003 after serving in at least four other venues since Homer. The instrument now in Horseheads has an old-fashioned case but with a projecting keydesk with the stops in a horizontal row above the manual. Marklove was known to favor this stop arrangement in later one-manual organs, as did George Andrews. The 5-section case with wood half-round wood dummies, is similar to those of Alvinza Andrews in the 1830s and 40s, George Andrews post-1875, Henry Erben in the 1830s-60s, and Marklove post-1870. Elsworth Phelps also did work in Homer and even briefly operated a shop there in the 1820s, but this case is not typical of his few known case fronts. The Horseheads organ is a c-compass organ, which makes it post-1850, as does the projecting keyboard, but the stop arrangement suggests post-1870.