Pipe Organ Database

Roberts' history of the church: (1911) A choir organ was placed in a brick-lined vault specially created underneath the choir stalls; the sound rose through iron grates beneath the seats.

(1919) H.C. Haskell [sic] of William Haskell Co., a Philadelphia organ maker, removed many parts of the Standbridge organ for repairs. [The source of the problem was probably the choir organ in the vault beneath the choir stalls since water was seeping into the space after rainfall.]

Vestry Minutes (1921) March 8: H.C. Haskell, the organ maker, has refused to return the organ pipes taken out for repair in 1919 due to a contract dispute.

Vestry minutes (1888) June 12: - Vestry considering the replacement of the present "double quartet" choir, which sings in the organ gallery, with a men and boys choir to sing on the ground floor near the chancel. - Also considering the replacement of the organ console from the gallery to nearby the chancel via an electrical connection [that didn't occur until March 1892, probably due to the transition period between the Rev. Davies and the Rev. Vibbert, followed by the latter's sudden resignation].

Vestry minutes (1892) March 8: - Console and choir moved from the organ gallery to the nave near chancel [the organ had by now crowded out the console]. - Charles S. Haskell of William Haskell Co. * rebuilds, electrifies, and adds fourth manual to the o gan for $8,000 (first electric-action organ in the church).

• The company was actually identified in Gopsill's City Directory for 1892 as "Haskell Bros., 1520 Kater St.," and besides Charles, consisted of William H., George W. and Henry J. Haskell.

Identified through information adapted from E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn:
In Feyring case. Replaced by Skinner Opus 862 (1931).