St. Thomas Episcopal Church

Amenia Union, New York

Organ attributed to  J. H. and C. S. Odell –  c. 1859-1869

MANUAL ORGAN

8 Open Diapason (TC)

8      Stop Diapason Treble (TC)

8 Stop Diapason Bass (CC-BB)

8      Dulciana (TC)

4      Principal

2      Fifteenth

PEDAL ORGAN

        Permanently coupled to manual

Manual – 58 notes      Pedal –20 notes

Cabinet organs built in the 1850's and 1860's can be generically similar, and

organs of the latter decade are virtually undistinguishable from those pre-war.

Thus the difficulty in dating the organ. Although attributed to Odell, the pipework,

indeed the entire instrument could have been built by Levi Stuart of Ferris & Stuart

with whom the Odells trained. Some sources list this organ as possibly by Thomas Robjohn c. 1860 who joined the Odell firm in 1865, but the fret-sawn music desk

was a unique characteristic found only in organs actually built by John Henry and

Caleb Sherwood Odell. Its original home is not known. In 1888 St. Thomas

purchased the organ from Jardine for $500 with a 20-note small flat pedalboard

added by Jardine at that time. It was restored by Scot Huntington in 2002.

PROGRAM

Welcome -  Ann Linden, Amenia Historical Society

Welcome  -  The Rev. Betsy Fisher, St. Thomas Church

Organ Demonstration – Will Carter

      George Frederic Handel (1685-1759)

            Allegro from Organ Concerto Opus 4, No. 1

      John Stanley (1712-1786)

            Trumpet Tune in D (Matt Finlay, trumpet)