Database Manager on May 11th, 2018:
Information from Hillgreen, Lane & Co. opus list, compiled by Bynum Petty<br>
Contract: April 1925 - for 3/21 instrument<br>
73-note manual chests<br>
Pipes retained from the previous unidentified organ<br>
Detached console<br>
Price: $8,500
Database Manager on July 14th, 2014:
Updated through online information from Scot Huntington. -- The contract stipulated the builder would take the original smaller blower in trade, and provide a new. larger unit for the enlarged instrument. The prepared Pedal Bourdon was installed in 1940 with the Echo.
Database Manager on January 6th, 2013:
Updated through online information from Scot Huntington. -- The Echo division was not mentioned in the 1925 contract, but was prepared for in the finished console. Subsequent investigation revealed the Echo division was eventually installed by Hillgreen, Lane & Co. in 1940. The register and count reflects the console as built, and the final rank count after 1940 was 25. -- Manual windchests were all 73 notes
Database Manager on January 6th, 2013:
Updated through online information from Scot Huntington. -- The contract was signed on 4/15/25 for $8,500 and the isntrument was installed and playing by the following September.
Database Manager on January 4th, 2013:
This is a rebuild of an existing organ.
Identified by Scot Huntington, based on personal knowledge of the organ.
-- The Hillgreen, Lane & Co. instrument was the second known organ in the large brick building built ca. 1875. Oral history related by the organist present at the time of the of the Hillgreen, Lane installation, thought the former organ was second-hand and was built by Hook & Hastings. This can not now be confirmed. The Hillgreen, Lane & Co. organ reused pipework from this instrument. The building was condemned in 1967 for severe structural deficiencies and torn down with the organ placed in storage. A new, smaller building erected on the same spot was dedicated in 1968, and the Hillgreen, Lane & Co. instrument was downsized and rebuilt as a new 2-manual organ using some old chests and pipes by Bryant Parsons & Sons of Parsons, New York. The immense H,L & Co. horseshoe console was sold to Alfred University to replace the inadequate supply-house console of their amateur-built three-manual teaching organ. With the closure of the Alfred University organ department in the early 1980s, the studio organ and H,L & Co. console were junked.