Halbert Gober
2001

Originally Gabriel Kney & Co. (1986 ca.)

Holy Family Roman Catholic Church

Oratory of St. Philip Neri

1372 King Street West
Toronto, ON, CA

56 Ranks - 3,006 Pipes
Instrument ID: 9531 ● Builder ID: 2372 ● Location ID: 8792
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  • Notes: 58 notes, C–a3
  • Notes: (232 pipes)
  • Notes: (116 pipes)
  • Notes: (1–12 half-length)
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  • Notes: 58 notes, C–a3
  • Notes: (174 pipes)
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  • Notes: 58 notes, C–a3, enclosed
  • Notes: (Gt.)
  • Notes: (ext. Gt. 16ʹ)
  • Notes: (harmonic from a1)
  • Notes: (1–16 Haskells)
  • Notes: (37 notes from a)
  • Notes: (harmonic from g)
  • Notes: (290 pipes)
  • Notes: (1–12 half-length)
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  • Notes: 58 notes, C–a3, enclosed
  • Notes: (Gt.)
  • Notes: (ext. Gt. 16ʹ)
  • Notes: (1–12 Haskells)
  • Notes: (46 pipes, t.c.)
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  • Notes: 32 notes, C–g1
  • Notes: (24 pipes, 1–8 Gt. 16ʹ)
  • Notes: (Gt.)
  • Notes: (12 pipes, ext. Ped. Subbass 16ʹ)
  • Notes: (26 pipes, 1–6 ext. Gt. Praestant 8ʹ)
  • Notes: (96 pipes)
  • Notes: (96 pipes)
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16'
  • Notes: (Solid-state logic electronic, 8 levels)
  • Notes: (thumb)
  • Notes: (toe)
  • Notes: (thumb, toe)
  • Notes: (thumb)
  • Notes: (thumb and toe reversible)
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Exhibited in the 2023 OHS convention(s)
This instrument is: Extant and Playable in this location

Paul R. Marchesano on July 21st, 2023:

Gordon D. Jeffery, BA, FRCCO (HON), is responsible for the Kney organ that now stands in the Church of the Holy Family. Jeffery studied with Charles Peaker, Healey Willan, and Ernest White. He was registrar for the Canadian College of Organists from 1942 and then president of the Royal Canadian College of Organists from 1955 to 1957. His considerable wealth derived from his profession as a lawyer and the family connection with the London Life Insurance Company. Few of Jeffery’s associates in the organ field knew of his skill as a skater. In 1953 he traveled to Oslo, Norway, as Canadian judge for the World Championship figure skating contests. On the same trip he gave six concerts as organist and conductor.

Jeffery’s accomplishments as a patron of the arts included the conversion of a church into Aeolian Hall, London, Ontario; installation there of the Aeolian-Skinner organ from St. Mary the Virgin, New York; the purchase of the old London Town Hall after the first Aeolian Hall burned in 1968; and the installation of a Kney organ in the second Aeolian Hall.

The organ given to Holy Family Church by the estate of Gordon Jeffery was yet another organ, one which he had commissioned for a large music room attached to his home in London, Ontario. Most of its stops were rescaled by Halbert Gober, since the pipes were built with small scales more suitable for a house organ. All ranks were newly voiced for the church’s acoustic, and a new façade matches the original Rückpositiv façade.

The Choir Organ is a floating division on an electric slider chest. Pedal pipes and chests for four stops came from a studio organ built by Ernest White, a native of London, Ontario. White studied with Willan and MacMillan and then, in 1927, with Lynnwood Farnam in New York. He was organist and music director at St. Mary the Virgin, New York City, for twenty-five years. He also became a tonal director for M.P. Möller, Inc.
-- 2023 OHS Handbook

Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:

The original builder was Gabriel Kney (ca. 1986, Opus 101).

Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:

Status Note: There 1999

Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:

From Gordon Jeffrey residence, London, ON. Façade will be redesigned.

Related Instrument Entries: Gabriel Kney & Co. (Opus 101, 1986 ca.) , Gabriel Kney & Co. (1986 ca.)

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