Andrew Henderson on August 15th, 2025:
This entry represents the installation of a new organ. Identified through online information from Andrew Henderson (August 15, 2025): From the *Barrie Examiner* (December 21, 1882): "The new organ purchased by the members of Trinity Church, of this town, is to be opened on Christmas Day for the first time ... built as an advertisement in Canada by W. H. Clark, of Indianapolis, it is finished, in every respect, in the most workmanlike manner. No pine is used in its construction at all, walnut and California white wood being employed altogether. The value of this, both in matter of sound and also in preventing the decay of the lead pipes will be readily understood by any one conversant with such instruments. The tone varies from a 16 feet to a 2 foot tone, the effect of the former being to shake the whole building. There are two manuals, having 61 notes, instead of the usual number, 58, the full complement of pedals, and 23 stops, three combination stops, &c. Like all large organs, an immense variety of effects can be produced, from a tone so quiet that absolute silence is necessary in order that it may be heard, through a series of remarkable imitations of flute, violin, oboe, cello, piccolo, trumpet, etc., to the full power of the organ, which will be understood best by our saying that about 2,000 pipes go to make up the instrument. On the swell organ the principal stops are those for producing solo effects, such as viola diapason, gedact or stop diapason, piccolo, flute octaviante, salicional, etc., and on the great organ we have the standard, such as principal, the two diapasons, dulciana, melodia, twelfth, fifteenth, etc. There are three pedal stops, of 16 and 8 feet tone respectively, and 5 couplers. The exterior of the organ is also very beautiful, and adds very much to the general appearance of the church. We understand that an organ recital will be given in the church on the evening of New Year's Day, when Mr. Carter, the celebrated organist of Toronto, and others, will exhibit the full power and the many effects of what is unquestionably by far the finest organ north of Toronto."