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Hinners Organ Co. (1905)

Location:

First Evangelical & Reformed Church / Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church
Spencer and Holley Sts.
Lyons, NY 11489 US
Organ ID: 1881

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Status and Condition:

  • This instrument's location type is: Baptist Churches
  • The organ is unaltered from its original state.
  • The organ's condition is playable, but not in usable condition.
We received the most recent update for this instrument's status from Scot Huntington on April 09, 2022.

Technical Details:

  • Chests: Slider
  • 8 ranks. 3 divisions. 2 manuals. 8 stops. 14 registers.
All:
  • Chest Type(s): Slider chests
  • Position: In a case at the front of the room.
We received the most recent update for this division from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Main:
  • Manuals: 2
  • Divisions: 3
  • Stops: 8
  • Registers: 14
  • Position: Keydesk attached.
  • Manual Compass: 61
  • Pedal Compass: 27
  • Key Action: Mechanical connection from key to chest (tracker, sticker or mix).
  • Stop Action: Mechanical connection between stop control and chest.
  • Console Style: Traditional style with a keyboard cover that can be lifted to form a music rack.
  • Stop Controls: Drawknobs in horizontal rows on terraced/stepped jambs.
  • Combination Action: Fixed mechanical system.
  • Swell Control Type: Balanced swell shoes/pedals.
  • Pedalboard Type: Flat straight pedalboard.
We received the most recent update for this console from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Scot Huntington on April 09, 2022:

The mechanism and pipes of the organ are in good condition, typical for the battleship construction of a Hinners. However, the organ is underwinded from either a blown-out reservoir or an issue with the blower, and until that is repaired, the instrument is not in musically usable condition. Apparently there is little interest in having the instrument repaired.

We received the most recent update for this note from Scot Huntington on April 09, 2022.
Database Manager on June 14, 2016:

Information from Loreen Jorgenson -- The organ was purchased and installed in 1905 in the German Church of the Evangelical Association of North America. In 1946 the Evangelical Association merged with the United Brethren and became the Evangelical United Brethren Church of Lyons. In 1968, the Evangelical United Brethren and Methodist Churches merged and this congregation became the Albright United Methodist Church. The congregation merged with the Dorsey United Methodist Church in 1970, and in 1971 the building was sold to the Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church which is still active there.

From my discussion with the caretaker, the organ is seldom played because no one knows how to play it.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Database Manager on January 02, 2016:

Updated through online information from Scot Huntington.
This church in 2015 is the Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church, and has been for an unknown length of time, but at least since 1981 when the organ was described in The Coupler.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Database Manager on October 30, 2004:

Name changed before 1996.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Source not recorded: Open In New Tab The Coupler, Oct. 1981, #21
We received the most recent update for this stoplist from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.

Instrument Images:

Organ Case: Photograph by Loreen Jorgensen. Taken on 2013-09-19

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