Database Manager on September 26th, 2012:
Updated through online information from T. Daniel Hancock.
Database Manager on September 15th, 2012:
Identified through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -- William Horatio Clarke wrote in 1877, "A divided Transept Organ, with elaborate case, containing 33 stops, Semi-Reversed Action, and blown by Hydraulic power." A testimonial from the church Organ Committee follows, on page (2).
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Clarke, 1877, writes "An instrument containing Two Manuals, 40 stops, located by the Chancel, with Reversed Action, and operated by Hydraulic power." He also records a testimonal from Calvary Church organist W. Plato: "The mechanical part is as near perfect as possible, the touch easy and prompt; not a single key has stuck since you put it up last October (1876?), . . . The Pedal Organ is solid in power, the Pedal Keys as easy of touch and as prompt as the Manuals, but the great beauty of the instrument is in the voicing, each Stop being a perfect imitation of teh orchestral instruments intended to be represented. . . The Diapasons and all the Stops are full and round, without being noisy, so that I can use the full Organ of forty stops for a double quartette, and yet so distinct that teh softest stop will lead the voices in delicate passages. The Reeds are the best I ever heard in an Organ, having played on them four months without tuning them, using them frequently for solo combinations."