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The Great Organ of Saint Thomas Church was built in 1913 by the Ernest M. Skinner Organ Company of Boston and installed when the present building was first used for services that year. It was extensively revised and rebuilt in 1956 by the Aeolian-Skinner Organ Company, also of Boston, under the personal direction of G. Donald Harrison. Further revision of the instrument was completed in the late sixties by Gilbert Adams of New York, and in the early eighties by Mann and Trupiano of Brooklyn. The current organ includes tonal designs which are characteristic of the organs of Bach’s time. In addition, it is especially notable for its French Romantic colors. Consisting of six divisions, the instrument features a Trompette-en-Chamade under the rose window over the Fifth Avenue entrance. There are four manuals, 138 ranks, and some 9050 pipes. The organ console is hidden from view at the left of the Chancel. Stop list.
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| In the spring of 1996, the new gallery instrument was dedicated as the Loening-Hancock Organ. The firm of Taylor & Boody of Staunton, Virginia, built the instrument, which contains twenty-one stops over two manuals and pedal. The instrument is inspired by the tradition of organ building that was active in the Netherlands and North Germany in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Stop and key action are mechanical and the temperament is Kellner. Stop list. |
 The Martha J. Dodge Positive Organ was built and installed in December, 2001. This superb portitive instrument, consisting of 5 ranks of pipes, was built by the firm of Taylor & Boody. |
