Timothy Patterson/Patterson Organ Co./Associated Organbuilders
1978

The church has a long organ history. Originally founded as Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church, that edifice housed E. & G.G. Hook's Opus 468, 1868. When the congregation moved to a new edifice, they renamed as Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church. The Hook organ was brought along and rebuild/enlarged by John Bergstrom of California during his brief time in business in Minnesota. In 1921, Estey built their opus 1978 which incorporated some pipework from the Bergstrom. In the 1960's the Estey console was replaced with a used M.P. Moller electro-pneumatic console (Opus 9983, 1965). It it thought to have been installed by Clarence Gould.

The organ was rebuilt with new chests by Tim Patterson and Terry Klevin retaining the E-P Moller console, but with new D-E windchests, a Z-tronics relay, and reconfigured layouy and winding. The Estey was decreased in size uty had as many stops through unification - just fewer independent tonal resources. By 2013, the relay had started to fail and there were a number of dead stops. As of September, 2017 the organ was not playable.

Transplanted notes from a related entry. -- Database Manager on October 25, 2018:

Updated by Stephen F Anderson, who has heard or played the organ.

The stop information was taken seated directly at the console. There appear to be about 19 ranks of pipes from my observation inside the pipe chamber behind the front pipes. The organ appears to be in excellent condition with new pipe wind chests reserviors and tremolo boxes. This was done in the renovation of 1978. It is used regularly for weddings and will be used with the praise band of Substance Church. It appears to have direct action valves. Control was changed to electronic using integrated (TTL) circuits in the 1978 renovation. The control system was designed by Allen Miller Associates and was their 10th or 13th installed system out of about 240 organs.