S. L. Huntington & Company The New Organ for St. Francis Church R.C. New Haven, Connecticut E. & G.G. Hook & Hastings Opus 750, 1874 THIS ORGAN WAS ORIGINALLY BUILT..., Davenport church disbanded and the building and organ were sold to the Diocese of Hartford. The church was consecrated as St. Casimirs Church (Lithuanian) and the organ was moved... to the rear gallery, (not exceptionally well done) by the Hall Organ Company of New Haven. The organ was cleaned and bellows releathered by Richard Hamar of Collinsville, CT...

, specializing in the construction of new historically inspired pipe organs and the thoughtful restoration of instruments of all styles and specifically American instruments.... Scot L. Huntington Scot Huntington received a degree in Organ Performance from the State University of New York. While in college, he won the Buffalo AGO chapter Young Artist... Competition, and he participated in a work-study program where he received college credit for apprentice work with the Schlicker Organ Company. Huntington formally apprenticed...

This imposing organ, with its black walnut case and sixteen-foot front pipes, is the largest extant issue from the prolific partnership of John W. Steer and George W. Turner. The... pending, even including an additional proposal for a possible retrackerization thereby returning the organ to as close to original condition as possible, a new generation of church... authorities ultimately made the decision to take the traditional music program of the congregation in a different direction, and elected instead to connect this historic organ...

. Father Patrick Ormos who spearheaded the project, was determined that the new edifice would have a pipe organ, and that it should have mechanical action and be a nineteenth... coverage of an organ concert on this instrument. St. Andrews Church Episcopal Valparaiso, Indiana Hook & Hastings opus 1417, 1889 Restored and enlarged 2006-07 This splendid catalog... and faade, until its removal in the fall of 2005 in anticipation of the sale of the building. The organ is a typical splendid of the well-built and inherently musical instruments...

& Merchant, Syracuse, New York) repaired pipes, re-leathering winkers, and cleaned the windchests. Larry Pruett (Columbia Organ Leathers, Columbia, Pennsylvania) supplied leather...S. L. Huntington & Company Restorative repairs were completed on the oldest, totally unaltered concert hall organ in the United States in preparation for its reopening... at the Societys convention on June 30th, 2006. Built by J.H. & C.S. Odell in 1882 for the Fifth Avenue residence of William Belden, the lavish, three-manual organ was relocated to Troy...