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This organ was a signature installation for the Delaware company in the early 1970s, and given its proximity to the workshop was a demonstration organ for potential clients. The contemporary church had no acoustical impediments and a live acoustic. The organ was installed on a free-standing plinth in the center of the rear gallery in an ideal acoustical placement. The voicing was fullsome and enhanced by the robust Pedal 16' Principal, a rarity in the bass-poor specifications typical at the height of the treble-rich neo-baroque period. The Great and Pedal pipework was inside a reflective wooden housing behind the facade of Principal basses, which also shielded it from the floor-to-ceiling wall of windows behind the instrument, a tuner's worst nightmare. A fine organ for its time.
The church replaced the original console in 2013 with a new 3-manual console by the Heritage Organ Co. reflecting either a planned or executed expansion of the organ with spurious ranks from the 1929 Wangerin built for Calvary Lutheran in nearby Amherst, an organ itself somewhat cobbled over the years to reflect prevailing taste, and which became redundant when the congregation could no longer afford the large 1959 ediface and relocated to a smaller building-- the organ being dispursed across several locations.
A subsequent entry for this organ indicates Delaware incorporated 10 ranks from the church's original 1940 Schlicker, a possible reason for the organ's tone having a more broad tonal palette than normal for the period.
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