The instrument was originally powered by water pressure as well as a hand pump.  An electric blower 
was later added but was positioned under the church on dirt.  No one knows when the hand pump was 
removed.  Redman added a new blower and blower box when the old one died placing it beside the 
organ case but utilized the old wind line.  

In 1961 Sipe and Yarborough altered the organ.  Otto Hoffman (Austin, Texas) had been contracted 
to do the work but sub-contracted it to S&Y.  

All the pipe work in the Great is new with the exception of the facade pipes. S&Y added a mixture: 
1 (1 1/3) rank for notes 1-12, 2 ranks for notes 13-24 and 3 ranks for notes 25-58.  The Breaks 
will be listed later if anyone really wants to know.  

No accurate account of the Swell is possible.  What is known is that it had three speaking ranks,
a Keraulophoon and Stopped Diapason which shared a common bass with the Keraulophoon and a 
4\' Harmonic Flute.  It is not known at this time if the 8\' Flute in the Swell is original.  The 
present Swell has the following 8\' Gedeckt, 4\' Rohr Flute, 2\' Gemshorn, 8\' Dolce.  The Dolce 
could have been the original Dulciana from the Great but this is doubtful since a Flute clearly 
used the facade since the pipes contain internal stoppers.  

An article from the Gainesville News Paper dated Friday, June, 2, 1893 lists the stop list and 
various facts but was not written by an organ technician and does not provide a solid foundation 
for an accurate analysis, though it is very enlightening.  

The Pedal Subbass is original.  In 1985 Redman added 5 pipes to the Pedal Bourdon to bring 
the number to 32.  S&Y had replaced the flat pedal board with an AGO concave/radiating 
pedal board but only added the necessary couplers.  Redman also finished out the mixture to 
three complete ranks for all 58 notes.  

Redman\'s additions brought the total number of pipes to 600.   Redman also added a much needed 
roller board for pedal Coupling behind the knee panel under the key desk.  In talking with Sipe,
there are no real records that exist as to what they changed.  It would be nice to see if Otto 
Hoffman\'s records could shed some light.  Hoffman, not too recently, died and his 5 warehouses 
of organ components etc. etc. were auctioned off a few years back.

[Received from John Dill October 3, 2010]