HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

Date of construction of the church: bells date from 1713 and 1730
Date of construction of the organ: 1721
Builder: unknown
Interventions: Reconstructed by José Tomás Renavidis in 1842, in which some registers were cancelled and wooden pipes were added to the upper part of the organ.
Inscriptions: On the rear panel of the organ: "Se estrenó heste órgano el dai deis de octubre del año de 1721/Siendo cura el MRPP Don F Antonio Valdela y Alcaldes de este pueblo Ignacio Martín y Jazinto Pérez Mayordomo del Sto. Christo Don Felis Ascenio. yofc a las de la República regidor Maior M? Luis Diego Nuñez, Manuel López, Domingo Marcos y Domingo Luis, Escrivano y organista de este pueblo Lorenzo Nuñez." and "Por disposición del Sr. vicario de esta parroquia Don José Mariano Bictoria se compuso y se pintó esta sant yglesia e igualmente se compuse este órgano por el Sr. Maestro Don José Tomás Benavidis. San Dionisio Ocotepec, 27 de Septiembre de 1842."
Type: stationary four foot organ

Keyboard: none
Compass: 45 keys, C-c’’’, with short octave
Key action: suspended without rollerboard
Stop action: eight holes remain where four sliders were located on each side of the organ
Labels: eight paper labels, right hand labels are new, left hand labels are older but still possibly not original
Windchest: original, but missing all pallets
Measurements of the windchest: .07 m high x .94 m wide x .6 m deep
Disposition of the pipes: unknown
Vertical channelboards: none
Offset chests: none
Bellows: none
Location of the bellows: unknown
Wind trunks: none
Wind pressure: unknown
Pitch and temperament: unknown
Case finish: polychrome
Pipe finish: unknown
Measurements of the case: 3.65 m high x 1.68 m wide x .75 m deep
Location in the church: choir loft, left (epistle) side
State of conservation: fair/poor, missing pipes, bellows, keyboard, windchest and stop and key action mechanisms