Great: C-f''' (* = enclosed)

Quintadena        16
Prestant           8
Bourdon*           8
Viola*             8 
Celeste*           8 TC
Principal          4
Harmonic Flute*    4 (removed)
Twelfth            2 2/3
Fifteenth          2
Mixture           II
Trumpet 8          8
Hautboy*           8
Cymbals (Zimbelstern, in case)

Chaire 

Violin Diapason    8
Stopped Diapason   8
Spire Flute        4
Twelfth            2 2/3
Fifteenth          2
Seventeenth        1 3/5
Nineteenth         1 1/3
Crumhorn           8 (removed)

Pedal: CC-f'

Principal         16 
Octave             8 (ext)
Fifteenth          4 (ext)
Trombone          16 
Trumpet            8 (ext)
Clarion            4 
Couplers

Ch/Gt              8
Gt, Ch/Ped         8

Pedal Flue Ventil
Pedal Reed Ventil

Tremulant

The Albright Memorial Organ

Dedicated September 7, 1986
St. James Episcopal Church
On the Green / Woodstock, Vermont
The Rev. Canon Donald E. Boyer

ABOUT THE ORGAN

The new Albright Memorial organ for St.James required an unusual combination of design 
features included in a single instrument.The rear gallery location determined the height 
of the organ, and because of a tie rod, the organ had to extend slightly beyond the stone 
arch.

The historical practice of resting one of the chests or divisions of the organ into the 
gallery rail proved to be ideal for St. James. This location gives a special sound to 
the chaire case and pipes that contrasts nicely with the great chest and pipes located 
in the central organ case.

The finished instrument is like many in early European churches. The classical chaire 
placement is used in relation to the organ console and casework. The chaire organ case 
is just behind the pedal board, with the stop knobs for the chaire division being pulled 
by reaching around from the organ bench with the left hand.

Two large wedge-shaped bellows provide wind for the pipes. One bellows feeds the pipes, 
while the empty one gets filled by an electrically-driven gear and chain, a system which 
produces very smooth, stable air pressure.  While the bellows reflect an ancient tradition,
David Moore devised this gear and chain mechanism....

The Albright organ was constructed over a period of about two years.  Nearly all components
of the instrument were built in Pomfret, Vermont. This includes metal and wood pipes, the
red oak of the case, windchests, stop knobs, bone-covered keys, and pipeshades designed 
by Francis Gyra.  The principal builders of the organ were David Moore, Byron Cole, Ed 
Workmon, Donald Carbino, Bob Waters and Francis Carbino.

ABOUT THE ORGAN BUILDER

A. David Moore has built mechanical action organs in North Pomfret since 1973. He lives 
with his wife Susan and three sons, Christopher, Lucas and Brendan.

David's interest in organ building began in high school with the removal of the Stevens 
organ from the Masonic Hall in Woodstock, Vermont. This instrument is now used regularly 
by Zion Lutheran Church in Iowa City, Iowa.

During college at the University of Vermont, he decided to pursue a career in organ 
building and apprenticed with the Charles Fisk firm in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Two 
European organ study trips gave him an understanding of how early instruments were crafted.

Moore organs are located in churches and schools in Washington, D.C., Iowa, Florida, 
Georgia, New York, Vermont, Michigan, Massachusetts and Connecticut.


IVAN ALBRIGHT - 1897-1983

Ivan Albright, painter, sculptor, etcher and lithographer, was often called the Old Master 
of the twentieth century. His intense technique was based on his admiration for Leonardo, 
Holbein, and Albrecht Durer.

He belonged to no contemporary school and subscribed to none of the cults which have 
convulsed twentieth century art. His path was lonely, and he was relentless in his search 
for reality. A work of art, to him, was not a decoration but a philosophical statement, 
and this magnificent organ would have quickened his artist's soul.  J.P.A.

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