Cleveland Herman Fisher
1961

From the 1964 OHS Handbook (some historical information was as known in 1964):
Only conjecture can be made of this instrument's history. In 1 928 it was given to St. Paul's by Trinity Episcopal Church, Pawtucket, R.I. A booklet of the Pawtucket church states that their first organ was installed in 1 843 ; that it was enlarged in 1852; and that in 1908 it was doubled in size and moved from the rear to the front of the church. Hook organ No. 1 5 1 of 1 853 (2 manuals, 26 knobs ) is listed for this church. The chests do not match ; some of the pipework is quite old; some is of later vintage. During 1 960/1, Cleveland Fisher repaired and revised the organ. The key action was tracker and has been left as such. The pedal and stop action were tubular-pneumatic, although the sliders were made for mechanical action. This stop action was not reliable ; Fisher replaced it with mechanical action; the pedal has been left tubular. Both manuals have 58 keys. The swell chest has 58 pipes, but the great has only 56. Low CC and high A on the great had been left vacant on the clavier. In the Fisher alterations, the action was moved down 1 notch so that the 2 top keys are now blank. The great pipe scales are consequently a bit narrower. When the organ came to Haymarket, there was an oboe in the swell and a twelfth, fifteenth, 3-rank mixture, and clarinet in the great. Local legent has it that, during the deprsesion years, a transient tuner was given these pipes as barter for tuning the remainder of the organ. On these vacant chests, Fisher has installed ranks, marked [with asterisk--see Stoplist Tab] from the Odell organ (rebuilt by by E. M . Skinner) that was torn out of the old building of First Congregational Church, Washington, in 1959.

The great clarinet chest is still vacant, and only 1 set of the mixture holes was used for the nineteenth. Hence the organ is capable of using additional pipes. The upperwork put back into the great are Odell pipes; the swell 2' is Skinner. The octave has been regulated brighter. The case contains 17 speaking pipes from the great open diapason; the other 4 are dummy. The pipes of the stopped diapason (above tenor E) and the flute have chimneys and a few open-metal trebles. Both sets seem to be quite old, as does the bourdon.

Built for Trinity Episcopal, Pawtucket, RI, 2m, 14rk. [Rebuilt c.1900?]; Moved here 1920's. Enlarged by Cleveland Fisher 1961, 2-16. On OCH For Sale list 1995.