The Holtcamp organ was installed in 1955. It has 61 ranks, or about 3,500 pipes ranging from the size of a pencil to some large enough for a man to step inside. The pipe organ was originally in the front and to the right. Since there was scant room for a choir, a paid octet provided music for a number of years.
The original organ, gift of the Ladies Society, had seen its day, and a replacement was mandatory. Following a year of study by a committee and considerable debate, some of it not too harmonious for Presbyterians (it is said that faint echoes persist to this very day), it was decided to purchase another pipe organ despite some insistence that one of those new-fangled electronic instruments be considered. It was determined that it be installed in the balcony where the acoustical effect would be superior.
