Originally built in the 1920's by Wicks Organ Company, the organ at St. Peter's Chapel in Essex Fells, NJ, had been silent for a number of years. Universal Restorations was called upon to give an estimate of what it would take to get the instrument playing and was ultimately engaged to "make it happen". The pipe organ at St. Peter's Chapel contains seven ranks, all enclosed in a swell chamber - a very typical kind of installation for the time and the builder. This organ has the advantage of being well suited for the space tonally. The chapel is small (room for 100) and the acoustics highly absorbent of sound. The organ does not overpower the room as one might imagine, but also makes it's presence known. Thick, almost ponderous diapasons, now quite out of favor and out of fashion, nonetheless provide an excellent underpinning for this instrument's almost exclusive function -- that of leading a small band of worshippers in song. Work accomplished included reworking of key contacts and various console components, regulation of the action, repair to certain pipes, most especially the reeds - many of which had cracked, and of course some revoicing, and lots and lots of tuning.     The organ was heard for the first time publicly since it went out of service some years ago at a memorial service and then for the first time by the congregation on Easter Sunday, 2001.