Can anyone identify the maker?

[steverose]

I know this is a long shot, but can anyone identify this organs maker based on a couple of bad pictures? Console was previously removed.

[michaelhoddy]

Name of church and the town where it's located? There's a lot that can be discovered with just that information.

I don't know if you have access to the organ, but there's often information to be found stamped onto the lowest note of some pipe ranks and also on the wind chests. The facade looks like typical 1870-1900 work, but there's clear evidence in a couple of the pictures that the organ had been altered to some degree since its original build date.

[steverose]

St Rose Roman Catholic Church in Lima, NY. Not on the OHS database. It was electrified at some point as the original console was removed and a remote console added a few feet away. There is an electric relay rack inside where all the tracker action would have been. Facade pipes fell down a couple decades ago and were placed inside the case. It was no longer in use back then even.

[toodles]

Does the church have any historical records that might indicate the builder?

[steverose]

If they do, they probably don't know it. They have been clustered with two other parishes. Priest has been there only a year. I talked with one of the older members, which the priest recommended and he knew nothing about it other than it hadn't worked in a long time.

[Terpodion]

C.E. Morey of Utica would be my first guess. And that's all it is, a guess.

[steverose]

Probably not a bad guess. I realized I just snapped a few photos of a Morey last month, one town away!