Pipe Organ Database

From The Montreal Daily Star (July 12, 1899): "When the renovations now going on in the Church of St. James the Apostle in this city shall have been completed in October next, and when its doors are again opened to the public, it will be seen that the church possesses one of the largest and most modern pipe organs in the Dominion. Last week the contract for the same was awarded to the Karn-Warren Organ Company, of Woodstock, Ont., successors to the old and well established firm of R. G. [sic] Warren & Sons, whose instruments are to be found in every part of Canada. The new instrument will consist of four manuals and pedal organ, and will have forty-two speaking stops, 15 couplers, 18 adjustible combination pistons, and 6 combination pedals. The case will be of quartered oak, richly carved, and otherwise ornamented. The great and swell organs will occupy one side of the new chancel, the choir and pedal organ the other side, while the echo organ will be located in the back of the church. All the action will be thoroughly up to date, the best electro-pneumatic mechanism being specified in the contract."