Database Manager on May 8th, 2007:
Updated through on-line information from James Hale. -- From the church's web site, referring to the origins of the organ in a Hutchings, Plaisted of 1880: "Major alterations in 1922, 1963 and 1986 have resulted in a pipe organ, which though it bears little interior resemblance to the original, is still, in the opinion of many, the finest instrument of its kind in the area."
Database Manager on May 5th, 2007:
Updated through online information from James Hale. -- The organ was originally built by Hutchings & Plaisted. When installed it was powered by a brook, now gone, that then flowed by the church. At the time it was regarded as the largest pipe organ north of Boston. It was purchased by the wealthy Fairbanks family. In the 20th century it was converted from tracker to electro-pneumatic, retaining the slider chests. It gradually deteriorated, and in the 1960s the job of rebuilding it went to David Cogswell of the Berkshire Company. Original pipework is still in the organ plus the additions and modifications of the other builders. Its stoplist and voicing are still along Romantic lines. It is now more often regarded as a Berkshire organ. It has good overall sound in spite of a somewhat overly plush church interior. All of the original façade and stenciled pipes are intact.