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The time line mentioned in the stoplist has a conflict with other sources: to wit, St. Stephen's, Romulus merged with Christ Church, Willard in 1985, and the organ was moved from St. Stephen's to Christ Church by A. Richard Strauss of Ithaca, possibly with tonal modifications. I have not been able to trace the Cazenovia attribution and whether this organ was ever at that location, but this much-traveled instrument is the organ now at St. Matthew's. Its origin being attributed to Calvary Episcopal, Homer, remains a bit of a mystery. The 1922 move to Dryden accompanied a rebuilding by W.S. Stevens of Penn Yan and Moravia, who also favored projecting keyboards with stops arranged in a horizontal row above the manual keys. The five-sectional case with half-round wood dummies suggests a pre-1860 instrument, or 1870s instruments by Marklove or George Andrews. It is also remotely possible the organ installed in Dryden could have been the ca. 1834 organ mentioned in the Database via Episcopal records, as being acquired by Calvary.
This organ is known from the William King work list compiled by King researcher Dr. Donald R.M. Patterson, and published in The Tracker XVI:4:1972.
The annotation states the organ was replaced with an electronic in 1961, and was sold to a local resident, Ned Dana, preserved intact but without the case which the church may have retained. He sold the organ in late 1969 to Lt. Russell Potter of Elgin Air Force Base, Florida, and listed as extant in the 1972 worklist. Nothing further is known about this instrument.
The 2022 church facebook pages have posted videos of on-line services and show a one-manual at the right front of the nave with a 5-sectional case and the stopknobs in a horizontal row across the top of the keyboard, reminiscent of small one-manual organs built by Marklove.
This entry represents the installation of an used organ in a new venue. Identified through on-line information from David Lenington. -- The church installed a used pipe organ by an unknown builder in 2003.
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