Database Manager on March 16th, 2016:
This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by Scot Huntington, using information found in The Diapason, November, 1965.<br><br>This was a new instrument with a 3-manual drawknob console built in the neo-baroque style with a floating Positiv division. Web photos showing the interior of the late 19th-century brick edifice show the Hook & Hastings pipe-fence facade is still in place, indicating at least this portion of the original organ was retained by Raymond.<br><br>The organ is still extant as of this first entry, but information regarding its state and condition needs to be updated. The 1965 Diapason new organ announcement indicated there were a number of spare knobs provided in each division for additional stops, and a fresh examination of the organ is needed to determine if any stops have in fact been added or modified in the intervening 50 years. The Diapason description gives no location or pipe count for the pedal reeds, so it is unclear whether these were console preparations, and independent stops, or borrowed from one or more Swell reed ranks which have different nomenclature.