The fourth historic Trinity Church organ was the present Estey Pipe Organ, installed in August of 1956. About this organ purchase, historian Wolfgang said, “Although the Austin Pipe Organ cost only $50, Trinity Church spent considerably more than $50 to move the Austin Organ from the Jaffa Shrine Temple and to re-install it in Trinity Church.” Sherwood, the people of Trinity negotiated to purchase a used Austin Pipe Organ from the former Jaffa Shrine Temple, located along Chestnut Avenue in Altoona. Under the courageous leadership of church rector, William T. The 1905 Mitmer Pipe Organ served Trinity Church well until the Saint Patrick’s Day flood of 1936 engulfed it, along with the Parish Hall piano, found floating on its side. The third historic Trinity Church organ was an Austin Pipe Organ built originally in Hartford, Connecticut and installed in the autumn of 1936. At the same time, these dedicated church members also constructed a small room addition on the Ninth Street side of the sanctuary to accommodate the wind chests and the pipes of their new Mitmer Pipe Organ. Historian Wolfgang observed that in the early years of the last century, hard-working Episcopalians hollowed out the basement under their gothic wooden sanctuary to accommodate Sunday school classes. The second historic Trinity Church organ was a Mitmer Pipe Organ, built in Philadelphia and installed in 1905 at a cost of $1,800. Richard Beaston played this Reed organ, while the strong men of the Episcopal Church pumped the bellows to supply the wind. In his 1985 “Story of Trinity Church”, the late Ralph Wolfgang noted that Mrs. The first of these four historic Trinity Church organs probably was a Parlor Reed or Pump Organ. Across the next 112 years, this jewel of a miniature gothic, wooden church building housed four historic church organs, each which narrate a chapter in the story of this remarkable central Pennsylvania parish. On November 11, 1894, at the corner of Washington Avenue and Ninth Street, the forty members of Tyrone’s Trinity Episcopal Church completed their building at a cost of about $3,200.