The current organ, Op. 18R of the Stuart organ company, formerly of Chicopee, MA, has a façade of copper pipes made by Dennison-Warnock of Boston, MA, and a case designed by Richard S. Hedgebeth, head of the Stuart Organ Company at the time of installation. The Organ Clearing House, headed then by the late Alan Laufman, was instrumental in locating this instrument and bringing it to Trinity.
After the instrument was installed, a dedicatory recital was played on September 28, 1980, by Will Sherwood, then of the Sudbury United Methodist Church. The Stuart organ is currently used as the primary musical instrument at Trinity Lutheran Church, playing liturgy, hymns, and choir anthem accompaniments.
We are also lucky to have been the recipients of a generous gift in the fall of 2002. A member of the church, and former organist, Wallace Thompson, donated a Rodgers Digital Organ of two manuals and approximately 35 sounding stops to Trinity. The console sits at the rear of the sanctuary and five speakers sit on and around the case of the Stuart Organ, making it sound as if the new organ uses the old pipes! The Rodgers organ is used primarily to play solo organ repertoire for preludes and postludes, but often accompanies hymns and choir anthems.
This instrument produces sounds that exactly mimic those of a pipe organ. The sounds it produces were digitally sampled from organs around the world. You can read more about this process at www.rodgersinstruments.com.
Trinity also has a Steinway grand piano in its sanctuary.
