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Gress-Miles Pipe Organ

Gress-Miles Organ

The 3-manual, 53 rank organ of Christ Church was installed in 1966 by the Gress-Miles Organ Company of Princeton, NJ. Its 2,852 pipes range in length from 16 feet to less than an inch. Only two of the registers are visible in the façade – some of the Great 8’ Principal and the Positiv 4” Principal pipes. The John Fairbanks Memorial Zymbelstern was added in 1999. The organ is maintained by Rosenberry & Myers Organbuilders.

Cummins Memorial Organ

To Receive Major Renovation

Thanks to a generous gift a parishioner, the console of our Cummins Memorial Organ will be brought into the 21st Century.  Presently, the inner electrical components of the organ remain original to its 1966 installation.  The instrument, built by the Gress-Miles Organ Company has provided an invaluable resource to the Christ Church music program for over forty years.  However, several of the inner components are long past their prime – with some beginning to fail. 

 

When the console returns to its home at Christ Church this Fall, it will also be ‘portable’.  We will be able to move the console into the middle of the Crossing for Organ Recitals and concerts.

In recognition of the significant contribution to the Christ Church music program made by our late organist Kathleen Pearson, whose Memorial Service was held here yesterday, the Pearson Organ Maintenance Fund has been established at Christ Church.  Members of the parish, as well as Kay’s family, have contributed to the Fund.  If you are interested in making a gift to this Fund, please be in touch with Director of Music Laura Russell, or the Rector. These gifts will help ensure that the Alexander Griswold Cummins Memorial Organ continues to help lead our community in its praise and worship of God for many years to come. 

An especially exciting portion of the renovations will be the placement of the organ console on a moveable dolly, with a special ‘umbilical cord’ that will allow the console to become moveable – perhaps rotated on its axis, for better sight-lines between the keyboard, chorus and conductor during a concert on the chancel steps; as well as providing the capability of moving the console into the middle of the crossing for organ recitals.

 




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Great Organ (Manual II)
Quintaton 16'
Principal 8’
Bordun 8’
Octave 4’
Spitzfloete 4’, 2’
Nasat 2 2/3’ TC
Superoctave 2’
Mixture IV-VI
Zimbel III
Trumpet 8’
Swell to Great
Positiv to Great

Swell Organ (Manual III)
Rohrfloete 8’
Salicional 8’ 4’
Unda Maris 8’
TC Koppelfloete 4’
Blockfloete 2’ 1’
Sesquialtera II TC
Plein jeu V-VI
Bassoon 16’8’
Trompette 8’ 4’
Tremulant
Pipes
58
58
58
58
70
46
58
312
174
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Pipes
58
70
46
58
70
92
336
70
70

Positiv Organ (Manual I)
Holzgedeckt 8’
Spitzgamba 8’
Principal 4’
Rohrfloete 4’
Octave 2’
Quint 1 1/3
Scharf III-IV
Dulzian 8’
Tremulant
Swell to Positiv



Pedal Organ
Principal 16’, 8’, 4’, 2’
Subbass 16’ 10 2/3’ 8’ 4’
Quintaton 16 (from Great)
Mixture V-VI
Posaune 16’ 8’ 4’ 2’
Bassoon 16’ (from Swell)
Dulzian 4’ (from Positiv)
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal
Positiv to Pedal
Pipes
58
58
58
58
58
58
254
58





Pipes
68
56

180
68