C. E. Morey
Opus 276, 1911

Updated through online information from Scot Huntington. -- The Morey organ replaced the previous organ which had been moved from the 1828 building into the present 1878 building. A detailed history of the organs for this parish, a signed piece of wood from the previous organ upon which a repair history for both instruments is detailed, and care and use instructions from the builder, (including how to maintain the water motor), are framed and safeguarded near the instrument.
The organ case is a typical stock design of Morey, of oak with a pipe fence of façade basses and gold-painted dummies. The previous organ had been deemed "worn out," and Morey allowed $175 for the old instrument in trade, applied against the contract price of $2,200.00. The Session minutes reveal the organ was completed on Feb. 17, 1911 and was dedicated by Prof. Harry F. Vibbard of Syracuse University. The instrument was originally powered by a Ross Water Engine, since replaced with two electric blowers, most recently in 1982 when the organ was renovated for $3,369.00 by Darrell Helms, Malone, N.Y., and rededicated on Sunday, May 30, 1982. The bellows was original located in the basement with the Ross Engine, and the care and use instruments prescribe "in the spring when the basement bellows sweats, a fire should be built to dry them out." The builder further advises the swell shutters be left open during the winter, and closed in summer; and that when the couplers malfunction, the [global] key dip should be re-established at 5/8". This is so deep the sharps would disappear between the naturals, and is certainly a typo for the typical keydip of 3/8". Morey further advises that the organ should be seen by the organbuilder every two years.
Graffiti on the old piece of the previous organ's reservoir kept within this instrument states the Morey indicates it received "Readjustments to action and a general looking over on March 27 1928 By J.G. Benson and E. Smith working for E.C. Morey [sic]." Graffiti also states the organ was "repaired and adjusted August 1949."