Di Gennaro-Hart Organ Co.
1998

From the Washington DC Chapter AGO website: The construction of the new organ for St. Alban’s by Di Gennaro-Hart Organ Company, Washington, is completely unique. The organ, instead of standing on its own building structure and framing, was designed and built to be suspended on structural steelwork from the roof of the Church. This design, developed by parishioner Marc Fetterman, AIA, offered the only viable solution to easing the architectural clutter associated with traditional organ support structure, while preserving the fine aesthetic of St. Alban’s Church.

Additionally, all of the mechanical systems: blowers, bellows, windlines, tremulants, expression shade motors and electrical relays, all of which would normally be housed within the organ’s building structure, had to be hidden. The solution at St. Alban’s involved hiding most of these mechanisms in the ceilings of the two sacristies and running concealed windlines through the walls and into the organ’s windchests. The balance of these components were concealed beneath the new floor in the south organ trancept.

The Dedicatory Recital was played by Dr. Norman Scribner and Sonya Sutton on September 20, 1998.