Schantz Organ Co.
1949

The organ was refurbished by Alfred Mangler and Alard Fazakas ca. 1947-48. Both men had worked together at Hutchings when the organ was build. Mangler had eventually settled in Providence with an organ maintenance business and Fazakas did the same in New Jersey. Historically, the University had been stingy with funds for the organ's maintenance and upkeep, and this incidence of service was no exception: the chests were releathered on-site as there was not enough money in the budget to remove the organ and do the work properly in the workshop. Further research is needed to determine whether the Schantz console was part of this project or something separate. The stoplist of the Schantz console indicates the organ had undergone some minor tonal revision, including the installation of a unit Swell Trumpet on high pressure.

The organ received restorative repairs by Nelson Barden & Associates of Boston in the early 1980s. Unfortunately in 1991, Potter-Rathbun, the local Moller rep for the New England territory, replaced the original Hutchings windchests with new slider chests built by Moller, which affected the voicing- especially the speech, along with a new custom console by Moller with a Peterson solid-state control system. Ostensibly the organ was not to be tonally altered by the 1991 work, but at some point the diapason chorus was loudened. By 2021 the organ was becoming mechanically unreliable, and the control system is being replaced by a new and up to date Peterson control system by the Ortloff Organ Co., the work being the gift of a Brown alumnus.

Identified through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- This was a console-only job for a rebuild of 1903 Hutchings-Votey Op. 1480; the console was replaced by one from Möller as part of a 1992 rebuild.