Christ Church Organ

This Sunday, November 18^th Christ Church will have a concert to honor the life of Harriet Johnson at 3 p.m. in the sanctuary. Harriet was a musician and taught piano at Kent Place School for many years. Our own Minister of Music Mark Miller will join a number of musicians from Kent Place to make a fitting tribute to her wonderful and zany life.

In her honor, Christ Church will also be doing some fund-raising for our organ that is need of repair. Eventually the church needs to raise $350,000 to repair the pipes which are hidden from view for the most part. This problem has been known for some time and have already had experts look at the complete system to apprise the church of what needs to be done long term.  The church would like to raise a substantial down payment on this occasion. I hope the readers of this blog will join with a bigger group to keep the music flowing at Christ Church.  You can still support this cause even if you read this after November 18th.  You can mail your contribution to Christ Church Summit 561 Springfield Avenue  Summit NJ 07901 designating it for the organ or you can donate via pay pal on the web www.ccsnj.org.

I did some research about the organ of Christ Church which is now over 50 years old.  It is an Austin Organ. I thought it was called Austin because our emeritus music direct Wayne Bradford came from Texas but I found out that it was made by The Austin Organ company which still exists in Hartford Con.  http://www.austinorgans.com/home.htm  The Christ Church organ is opus 2246 (First Baptist Church Summit) Christ Church Summit.  It is three manual and had 47 ranks. It consists of two organs, I believe there is an organ in the front and back of the church so that if you sit in the middle of the church and both are being played you get surround sound.  It is awesome!

If you have not heard our organ please come to the church some Sunday to hear it being played. 

Jeannette Brown

UCC Representative

Choir member

PS. I once visited a church in Rochester NY. because it was UCC and had an Austin Organ which I wanted to hear.