Paul R. Marchesano on June 9th, 2021:
The instrument contains several parts of earlier origin, probably ca. 1845: manual windchests, a Dulciana rank, and a Stopped Diapason rank. It is believed to have been built for a residence and is known to have served a chapel in Dayton, OH. In the late 1940s it became a residence organ again and was last located in Columbia, MD. Various modifications and homemade additions of spurious stops on electric unit windchests had accrued to the 2-7 organ by the time of its acquisition by Larry Pruett of Columbia Organ Works. The firm restored the 1890 case of walnut, fabricating about 20 percent of its parts which were absent A 27-note Pedal keyboard was fitted and a set of 19th-century 16' Bourdon pipes added. The original Pedal division of unknown compass comprised an 8' Flute of open wood, of which 14 pipes remain extant. Chests were retabled and a useable stoplist derived to Include the older pipes of fine quality which were in the organ, including the 4' Rohr Flute of metal with soldered caps. From the Jardine organ at St. John's Episcopal Church In Brooklyn, NY, are the 4' Octave and 2' Principal; the 8' Open Diapason is new. The instrument was dedicated in a concert on April 16, 1989, by Richard B. Strattan. -- *The Tracker*, 33:1, 1989, p. 13