William Stevens
1870ca.

Updated through on-line information from Charles L. Nazarian. -- Sacred Heart's building has been converted into a private residence. The owner did not want the organ, and I am in the process of moving it to my residence for reassembly as a house organ. I first viewed and played the organ in September, 2006 with Barbara Owen, David & Nina Bergeron. It was in poor playing condition with evidence of mice living in the pedal Subbass 16', but aside from a missing Oboe rank it appeared that all the pipework was mostly intact. The original front pipes were gone, replaced by a very poor set of zinc pipes from a later period. The original casework was entirely gone. The organ had been previously "hacked" — removing the bellows to a basement, cutting the key-tails to bury the console, a mismatched set of non-original case-parts had been assembled around the chassis, wood pipes were racked to each other with sheetrock screws, etc. Upon disassembly I discovered that squirrels had made a nest in the center of the single-manual chest's pipe-work, eating away many upper lips of wood and metal pipes! Otherwise, the chest and other action parts appear to be in reasonably good condition. When I figure out how I may reassemble the organ, building a new case, etc., for my music room I will update the listing with more detail.

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