Scot Huntington on November 7th, 2024:
This organ is not listed on the Schlicker opus list under any of the names or places associated with it, but the opus list might be incomplete before 1960. The organ was presented Colby-Sawyer College in 1974 by Robert A. Lehman and was installed at the college by John Wessel. An undocumented source suggests the organ was may have been built in 1958, but there is no organ matching this description on the opus list for 1958, Robert Lehman, or NYC. The organ sat unused at Colby College until it was moved to Kearsarge Presbyterian in 1990 by Joseph Chapline. The organ was listed on the Organ Clearing House in 2024 and inexplicably replaced with a grand piano, the only instrument now in the church. The organ was sold to the United Methodist Church in Sudbury, Mass. and installed in their Davidson Chapel in August by an unknown party. It is not known if the wood case enclosure and grill was original, or added for the Colby College installation, or for Kearsarge. The specification was a standard Schlicker stock model.
Scot Huntington on November 7th, 2024:
The organ was presented to the college by Robert Lehman and moved there from New York City. An undocumented source suggests the organ was built in 1958 but the Schlicker opus list contains no organ matching this one built in 1958, or for New York City, or for one Robert Lehman. The Schlicker opus list likely contains holes before 1960. The organ was dedicated by local concert organist Harriet Slack Richardson on Sept. 25, 1974. When the music department was closed, the organ sat unused until it was relocated to nearby Kearsarge Presbyterian Church in New London by Joseph Chapline in 1990. The organ was sold through the Organ Clearing House in 2024 to the Methodist Church in Sudbury, Mass. where it was installed by an unknown party in their Davidson Chapel. The organ is a standard Schlicker stock model specification.