The organ at St. Edith’s was first installed in 1982 in the old sanctuary by Wayne Warren and Phil Robertson. The 1926 Casavant ventil chests were from the old St. Peter and Paul Cathedral (now gone.) Most of the old pipework was from a c.1912 Felgemaker organ in Port Clinton, Ohio. Several new stops came from Organ Supply Company, and so did a new OSI console. The organ was moved to the present sanctuary in 1990, with a facade featuring the largest pipes of the Pedal and Great 8′ Principals.

Richard Abdoo maintained the organ for most of the next thirty years. There were multiple releatherings because of chronic roof leakage. He added 16′ electronic stops in 1995 to help with weak bass in the Pedal, and a Pitch Diapason was added near the church choir. Mr. Abdoo also added the Mayland chimes, in 2003.

By 2012 the 1982 console had developed recurring problems, and service calls were necessary more and more often. Wigton Pipe Organs was asked to bid on a new console, and also address a few ongoing problems, such as wind noise, weakness in the Pedal division, and to improve the appearance of the organ facade. We designed and built a console to match the oak and walnut altar furniture. We solved the wind noise problem by installing a static reservoir for the Great division. We added a large-scale Subbass to the Pedal, and extended the Pedal Principal and Great Trumpet with 16′ bass octaves. In lieu of a Trumpet en chamade we added a high pressure solo trumpet. The organ now has a solid state relay system with a fiber optic link to the chests.

In February of 2022 Dr. Dave Wagner played a dedication recital on the refurbished organ.

STOPLIST

Great
16′ Lieblich Gedackt (Swell)
8′ Principal 68 pipes 1-17 Facade
8′ Rohrflute (Prep)
8′ Melodia 68 pipes
8′ Gambe (Prep)
4′ Octave 68 pipes
4′ Rohrflute 68 pipes
2′ Super Octave 68 pipes
Mixture III 183 Pipes Regulated, new tuning slides
8′ Grand Trumpet * 68 pipes New, hooded copper, Great Chamber
8′ Trumpet 65 pipes
Chimes *
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Couplers: Gt/Gt 4, Sw/Gt 16, Sw/Gt 8, Sw/Gt 4, Midi on Great

Swell
16′ Lieblich Gedackt 61 pipes
8′ Violin Diapason (Prep)
8′ Stopped Diapason 68 pipes
8′ Lieblich Gedackt 12 pipes
8′ Salicional 68 pipes
8′ Voix Celeste t.c. 56 pipes
4′ Principal 61 pipes
2 2/3′ Nazard 68 pipes
2′ Doublette 68 pipes
1 3/5′ Tierce 61 pipes
Plein Jeu III (Prep)
8′ Grand Trumpet *
Chimes *
Tremulant
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Couplers: Sw/Sw 16, Unison Off, Sw/Sw 4, Midi on Swell

Pedal
32′ Accoustic Bass (from Subbass)
16′ Principal 12 pipes New aluminum facade
16′ Subbass 32 pipes New, large-scale wood
16′ Lieblich Gedackt (Swell)
8′ Principal 32 pipes 1-17 Facade
8′ Bass Flute 12 pipes (Subbass)
4′ Choralbass 32 pipes (Principal)
4′ Bourdon (Lieblich)
16′ Trombone (Gt) 12 pipes
8′ Grand Trumpet
8′ Trumpet (Gt)

Notes
* Non-coupling

Couplers
Gt/Pd 8, Gt/Pd 4, Sw/Pd 8, Sw/Pd 4, Midi on Pedal

Totals
22 stops,
34 Registers,
24 ranks,
1481 pipes

Console Features
Matters, Inc Organ control system
10 General pistons, duplicated by toe studs
5 Great divisional pistons
5 Swell divisional pistons
5 Pedal divisional toe studs
Set/SFZ/General cancel pistons
99 memory levels
Transposer
Piston sequencer with next and last pistons
On board record and playback system
Programmable crescendo pedal
Swell pedal
Tracker touch keyboards

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