Peragallo Pipe Organ Co.
1998

Updated through on-line information from Brian Regan. -- I supervised (pro bono) the restoration of St. Mary's Church and the move, in 1998, of the Skinner organ from its original location in Paterson, New Jersey. We found the instrument through the Organ Clearing House. The organ is a Skinner Organ Co. instrument and was moved, and the switching mechanism altered by, the Peragallo Pipe Organ Company, which also added a unit reed.

On-line update from Brian Regan -- Skinner Opus 741 (contract 1928, installed 1929) was removed in 1997 from its first location in Paterson. The Peragallo Organ Company restored the Pitman Chests and replaced the console switching mechanisms to electric action 1997-98 and installed the Skinner in St. Mary's in 1998. Peragallo added an unenclosed unit reed (GT: Trompette 8', PD:Bombarde 16') built and scaled by A.R.Shopp's Sons of Alliance, Ohio. The Skinner pipe work remains unaltered. The organ is installed behind a facade (1997) designed in the High Victorian style by Michael Wetstone, AIA, of Beyer Blinder Belle, New York. Speaking pipes from the GT Diapason 8; and GT Harmonic Flute 8' are in the central bay of the facade, flanked by non-speaking 16' metal pipes. The facade pipes, all of which are painted, are also stencilled with Gothic devices from Pugin's Glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornament (1844).

The original builder was Skinner Organ Co. (1928, Opus741).

Status Note: There 1997

Possible additions to the Choir. Original console will receive solid state apparatus.