Pipe Organ Database

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Alan T. Jackson (2018)

Originally Geo. S. Hutchings (& Co.) (Opus 425, 1896)
Exhibited in the 2023 OHS convention(s)

Location:

St. John's Anglican Church - Norway
470 Woodbine Avenue
Toronto, ON M4R 2H6 CA
Organ ID: 61220

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Status and Condition:

  • This instrument's location type is: Episcopal and Anglican Churches
  • The organ is unaltered from its original state.
  • The organ's condition is good, in regular use.
We received the most recent update for this instrument's status from Paul R. Marchesano on August 08, 2023.

Technical Details:

  • Chests: Slider
  • 20 ranks. 1,048 pipes. 2 manuals.
All:
  • Chest Type(s): Slider chests
  • Position: In side chambers at the front of the room. Facade pipes or case front visible.
We received the most recent update for this division from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Main:
  • Manuals: 2
  • Position: Detached keydesk (mechanical action).
  • Key Action: Mechanical connection from key to chest (tracker, sticker or mix).
  • Stop Action: Mechanical connection between stop control and chest.
  • Console Style: Traditional style with a keyboard cover that can be lifted to form a music rack.
  • Stop Controls: Drawknobs in horizontal rows on terraced/stepped jambs.
  • Combination Action: No combination action.
  • Swell Control Type: Balanced swell shoes/pedals, not in standard AGO position.
  • Pedalboard Type: Flat straight pedalboard.
  • Has Hitchdown Couplers
We received the most recent update for this console from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Paul R. Marchesano on August 08, 2023:

Conrad Grimes, then Associate Professor of Organ at the University of Manitoba, served First Presbyterian as organist and was a friend of Christ Lutheran. With his help, and through the Organ Clearing House with Alan Laufman, the church became aware that a tracker organ of two manuals and pedal was available. This was the Geo. S. Hutchings Op. 426 (1896), which had been removed from a Unitarian congregation in Boston and stood semi-assembled in the organ shop of the Stuart Organ Co. under the direction of Richard Hedgebeth (1944–2019). The pipes were not installed but were stored in groups around the side of the instrument.

Using the Hutchings organ as a foundation, Richard Hedgebeth rebuilt the instrument as Stuart Organ Co. Op. 30R. It represents Hedgebeth’s only installation outside the United States. With the closure of the Christ Lutheran congregation in 2014, the organ was gifted, along with dismantling costs, to St. John’s Norway, where the Alan T. Jackson Co. installed it in 2018.

-- 2023 OHS Handbook

We received the most recent update for this note from Paul R. Marchesano on August 08, 2023.
Database Manager on February 27, 2018:

Updated by Matthew Whitfield, who has heard or played the organ.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
2023 OHS Handbook: Open In New Tab
We received the most recent update for this stoplist from Paul R. Marchesano on August 08, 2023.

Instrument Images:

Organ facade and console: Photograph from an archival source: 2023 OHS Handbook, Len Levasseur, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano. Taken on 2022-06-15