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Charles Viner & Son (1909)

Location:

First Methodist Episcopal Church
166 Main Street
Penn Yan, NY 14527 US
Organ ID: 55350

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Status and Condition:

  • This instrument's location type is: Methodist Churches
  • The organ is no longer at this location; destroyed, dispersed, relocated or taken in trade.
  • The organ's condition is unknown.
We received the most recent update for this instrument's status from Jim Stettner on April 03, 2022.

Technical Details:

  • Chests: Information unknown or not applicable
  • 4 divisions. 3 manuals.
Great:
  • Position: In a case at the front of the room.
  • Built by Charles Viner & Son
We received the most recent update for this division from Jim Stettner on April 03, 2022.

Swell (Expressive):
  • Position: In a case at the front of the room.
  • Built by Charles Viner & Son
We received the most recent update for this division from Jim Stettner on April 03, 2022.

Choir:
  • Position: In a case at the front of the room.
  • Built by Charles Viner & Son
We received the most recent update for this division from Jim Stettner on April 03, 2022.

Pedal:
  • Position: In a case at the front of the room.
  • Built by Charles Viner & Son
We received the most recent update for this division from Jim Stettner on April 03, 2022.
Main:
  • Built by Charles Viner & Son
  • Manuals: 3
  • Divisions: 4
  • Position: Console in fixed position, center.
  • Stop Controls: Drawknobs in horizontal rows on angled jambs.
  • Swell Control Type: Balanced swell shoes/pedals.
We received the most recent update for this console from Jim Stettner on April 03, 2022.
Jim Stettner on April 03, 2022:

Transplanted note from a duplicate Database listing. Database Manager on January 28, 2019:

This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ.

Identified by David Lenington, who gave this as the source of the information: Newspaper: The Chronicle Express, Penn Yan, N.Y. August 21, 1980.

Organ was renovated in 1939. Replaced by new pipe organ by A. Richard Strauss.

We received the most recent update for this note from Jim Stettner on April 03, 2022.
Database Manager on November 24, 2017:

Updated by David Lenington, listing this website as a source of information: https://www.newspapers.com/image/275937667/?terms=viner%2Borgan%2Bst.%2Bmethodist%2Bpenn%2Byan

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Database Manager on July 04, 2015:

This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by William Dunklin, using information found in vintage postcard. -- Postcard mailed in 1908 shows a substantial pipe organ at one side of an Akron plan room. A detached console is visible to the far left.

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

Instrument Images:

Chancel and Organ Case: Vintage Postcard (ca. 1908); image courtesy of William Dunklin.

Church exterior: Photograph from an archival source: Vintage postcard, submitted by Jim Stettner. Taken approx. Postmarked 1910

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