The first instrument installed in the organ loft of St. Andrew’s Church was inaugurated with the opening of this building on January 25, 1874. A hand-pumped tracker organ of 21 ranks with two manuals and pedals by Samuel R. Warren & Co. of Montréal, it was built at a cost of $3200 and was “pronounced to be the finest organ of its size ever turned out by this builder” (Ottawa Citizen, January 27, 1874). The specifications were as follows:
Great 56 notes, C-g’’’
16′ Double Open Diapason [TC], metal
8′ Open Diapason, metal
8′ Dulciana [TC], metal
8′ Melodia [Treble] [TC?], wood
8′ Stopped Diapason Bass [C-B?], wood
4′ Harmonic Flute, metal
4′ Principal, metal
2′ Fifteenth, metal
III Mixture, metal
8′ Posaune, metal
Swell 56 notes, C-g’’’
8′ Open Diapason (lower 8ve grooved into
Stopped Diapason), metal
8′ Viol de Gamba [TC], metal
8′ Stopped Diapason Treble [TC?], wood
8′ Stopped Diapason Bass [C-B?]
4′ Violina, metal
2′ Flautina (Harmonic), metal
II Mixture [metal]
8′ Cornopean, metal
3 Great and 2 Swell Composition Pedals
Mechanical Registers: Sw/Gt, Gt/Ped, Sw/Ped; Tremolo to Swell; Bellows signal
Mechanical action, hand pumped. Console built into main case.
The Presbyterian Church in Canada
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