February 2007

C. B. Fisk, Inc., Gloucester, Massachusetts, Opus 124: Christ Episcopal Church, Roanoke, Virginia

The company is celebrating the milestones of 114 years since the first Austin organ was built, and 70 years since reorganization and move into the current factory.

The 2006 Eastman Rochester Organ Initiative (EROI) Festival was presented by the Eastman School of Music and the Westfield Center October 12–15. The topic was “Aspects of American Organ Building in the 20th Century with emphasis on E. M. Skinner and John Brombaugh.”

We should look for any opportunity to inform or enlighten our clients about the factors that lead to a successful organ installation. We should encourage the design and construction of buildings that enhance sound rather than absorb it. And we should always be looking for balance between the ancient world that fostered our craft and the modern world in which we live.

Trinity Episcopal Church

205 East Montezuma, Houghton, MI 49931; 906/482-2010.

Austin, 1913, 3M, 26 ranks; new console, 1958; rebuilt with new console, 1976; rebuilt, Roscoe Wheeler, Iron Mountain, MI, 1987; repaired, including reinstallation of the Echo organ, Lauck, 2004.

Placement: chancel, right side, in well facing the opposite side


GREAT

8' Open Diapason Rank 1

8' Clarabella Rank 2

8' Dulciana Choir

4' Octave Rank 3

4' Stopped Flute Choir

2' Fifteenth (ext of Rank 1)

III Mixture Ranks 4-5-6

Great 16

These magnificent music machines are a valuable historic resource in the Keweenaw. They reflect the boom days of the copper mining era when people of wealth who lived in the area sought the best music for their churches and arranged for the purchase of these instruments. We hope this catalog will trigger interest in the organs of the Keweenaw from the local folk as well as travelers to this unique place.

Music for one-manual organs.

James Raymond Garner, Daniel Pinkham, Jon Spong, Kenneth Edward Williams