Alvinza Andrews
1854
Universalist Church
South Main Street
Perry, NY, US
8 Ranks - 350 Pipes
Instrument ID: 5697 ● Builder ID: 130 ● Location ID: 5411
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Builder: Unknown
Position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
Design: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
Pedalboard Type: Flat Straight
Features:
1 Manuals (54 Notes)13 Note Pedal2 Divisions8 Stops9 RegistersMechanical (Unknown) Key ActionMechanical Stop ActionStop Layout: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Expression Type: Trigger/Hitch-Down Expression
Combination Action: None
Control System: Unknown or N/A
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Paul R. Marchesano on February 24th, 2025:
From "HISTORICAL SKETCH of the First Universalist Church of Perry, New York" "The pipe organ which was installed by the C. E. Morey Co., of Utica in 1854, at a cost of $800, was not only the first organ to be turned out by that company, but was also the first one to be installed in Perry, antedating any other Perry organ by 21 years. Mrs. Samuel D. Phillips and our present organist, are the only two organists we have had in the last 46 years. A truly very remarkable record. In 1886 many changes were made in this church building. The gallery which ran around three sides of the auditorium was taken down, the floor which had been level, placed on an incline, the organ taken down and installed in its present location and many other improvements made. About $3,100 was expended." —F. M. [Frank Merriam] CROCKER Empire State Universalist, Carthage NY, November 1923
From "HISTORICAL SKETCH of the First Universalist Church of Perry, New York" "The pipe organ which was installed by the C. E. Morey Co., of Utica in 1854, at a cost of $800, was not only the first organ to be turned out by that company, but was also the first one to be installed in Perry, antedating any other Perry organ by 21 years. Mrs. Samuel D. Phillips and our present organist, are the only two organists we have had in the last 46 years. A truly very remarkable record. In 1886 many changes were made in this church building. The gallery which ran around three sides of the auditorium was taken down, the floor which had been level, placed on an incline, the organ taken down and installed in its present location and many other improvements made. About $3,100 was expended." —F. M. [Frank Merriam] CROCKER Empire State Universalist, Carthage NY, November 1923
Database Manager on October 7th, 2012:
Updated through online information from Scot Huntington. -- Organ relocated the the Unitarian Church of East Aurora, New York, by the Organ Clearing House in 1972. The original three-sectional Greek-Revival facade with half-round wooden dummies which fronted the gallery chamber was left behind, and was demolished with the building. Within the gallery chamber, the organ had a traditional paneled case. The organ was erroneously attributed in the early 1960s to John G. Marklove by early organ historians as his possible opus 1. Stephen Pinel definitively authenticated the organ as by Alvinza Andrews in his 2010 book "Organbuilding Along the Erie and Chenango Canals", page 65, citing an article published in the Utica Daily Gazette (august 11, 1854) which announced the organ's completion in the Andrews shop. The reservoir uses a very early example of the inverted fold, no doubt due to the influence of the English born and trained Marklove, who had been hired by Andrews as a journeyman several months earlier in 1854.
Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
Moved to Universalist, Unitarian, East Aurora, NY.
Related Instrument Entries: Unknown Builder (1972)
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