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Builder: Unknown
Position: Movable Console
Design: Traditional With Roll Top
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Features:
3 Manuals 4 Divisions83 Stops83 RegistersElectrical Key ActionElectrical Stop Action✓ Combination Thumb Piston(s)✓ Combination Toe Piston(s)✓ Coupler Thumb Piston(s)✓ Coupler Toe Piston(s)✓ Sforzando Thumb Piston(s)✓ Sforzando Toe Piston(s)

Stop Layout: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination Action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Control System: Unknown or N/A

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This instrument is: Extant and Playable in this location

Database Manager on March 27th, 2011:

Identified through on-line information from Michael S. Monaghan. -- The console control system was converted to solid state in the late 80s by Crossan & Savage of Cedars, PA. I believe it was 1993 that the congregation sold the Norristown property and moved a few miles north to the suburb of Fairview Village. They moved the organ with them. A chamber was created out of attic space at the rear of the sanctuary. The console was placed up front in a well in the chancel. Since my arrival last year, we've freed it from those unfriendly confines and repaired the floor to accommodate a rapidly growing choir.

Steven Sykes (now president of Crossan & Savage) supervised the installation, assisted by parish members with trades skills. The Gallery organ (roughly a third of the original pipework) was carefully laid into trays and stored onsite in a secure location. The Chancel organ is intact, safe, and well maintained. The installation is less than ideal, but it serves the purpose for now.

Due to Trinity's steady growth at the Fairview site, we've entered into a capital campaign aimed at the construction of a new liturgical space on our property, with groundbreaking anticipated within two years. Opus 7700 will be architecturally (and musically) integrated into the new space.

Related Instrument Entries: M. P. Möller (Opus 7700, 1948) , Austin Organ Co. (Opus 586, 1915)

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