Brother Roger Chingas
1977

Updated through online information from scot huntington.
The orqan has subsequently been sold again, and purchased by the Parsons Organ Co. of Canandaigua, New York. They have the instrument in storage at their facility and it is listed for sale on their website (2016).

Updated through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -- According to an email from Brother Roger Chingas, 2014-09-23: During the summer of 1976, Brother Chingas removed the organ from the Blessed Sacrament Church in Albany with help from Matthew Bellochio and a number LaSalle military Academy students. The Roche Organ Company retabled the manual chest and the pedal chests and also releathered the double rise reservoir. Roche assisted in placing the manual chests and the reservoir in place on the bearers, and also assisted Chingas by answering questions during his ongoing restoration work. Chingas achieved the remainder of restoration work with help from his father on casework repair and other work was completed utilizing labor from many of the students at the Academy. The voicing of the organ, regulation of the pipe work, and regulation of the key action was carried out by Peter Batchelder.

Updated through on-line information from Tom Bailey. -- Organ was moved from an upstate NY monastery to this location. At the time this location was LaSalle Academy, now St. John's University, Oakdale campus. The organ is not maintained but is perfectly playable, even the reeds (Trumpet and Oboe) had only a few dead notes. The nameplate say J. W. Steer, opus 1

The original builder was John W, Steer (1867, Opus 1).

Status Note: There 1978.

Relocated from Blessed Sacrament, Albany, NY in 1976. Restored.