Church of the Immaculate Conception

Amenia, New York

Organ by George Jardine & Son – 1865

MANUAL ORGAN

        8      Open Diapason  (TC)

        8      Montre (CC-BB) (façade)

        8      Stopped Diapason

        8      Salicional

        4      Principal

        4      Flute Harmonic

        2      Fifteenth

                Mixture

        8      Trumpet

                Vox Tremulant

                Bellows

PEDAL ORGAN

         16   Bourdon

        8      Violincello (Bell Gamba)

        Manual to Pedal

        Manual – 56 notes      Pedal – 25 notes

This is considered the most original antique organ in the area. It appears in an

1869 Jardine brochure as the first organ in the United Presbyterian Church, Amenia.

It was replaced by a larger and considerably louder organ in 1871 whose characteristic

"Jardine bulge" front pipes partially cover the stained-glass window in the front of that church. In 1888 this organ was procured from Jardine for the then-new Immaculate Conception. Except for electric blowing there have been no alterations made to this instrument. It still retains the original 25-note flat, radiating pedalboard, and the original gilding and stenciling on the pipes of the façade.

PROGRAM

Welcome - Fr. Kent Wilson

Organ Demonstration – Will Carter

      J. K. F. Fischer (1665-1746)

            Prelude in D Major

      Alexander Peloquin (1919-1997)

            "Gloria" from Mass of the Bells

                         The Immaculate Conception Choir, Regina Syversen, director

      Cesar Franck (1833-1890)

            Panis Angelicus

      Diderik Buxtehude (1637-1707)

            Fugue in C Major ("The Jig Fugue")