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Ayars, Contributions to the Art of Music in America by the Music Industries of Boston (1937) — the Squier, Farley, Rettberg, Rockwell and Elias Howe matter, 1937
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1ing organists, and The Boston Gazette and County Journal of August 30, 1756 informed its readers that the organ "is esteemed by the most eminent masters in England to be equal, if not superior to any of the same size in Europe." In view of these statements it has been assumed that the tradition is correct, since the King presumably would take an interest in an organ for his Boston Chapel and so his favorite musician would naturally have some share in its selection.
3This organ was repaired in December 1782 and in September 1788 before William Goodrich by an agreement of May 6, 1824 repaired it, inserted sub-bass pipes to give it a pedal, and put in a double bellows for $300, to be paid for partly by a deed of pew No. 56 valued at $175. Again in 1844 the organ was repaired. In 1860 Simmons & Willcox enlarged the organ to a notable instrument for the time. The shippers' letter spoke of directions from Mr. Bridges and that he had found it so hard a bargain to carry through that they had had to advance some money to him and to pay him the entire remainder on delivery, which suggests that he was the builder. But a specification of the Simmons & Willcox organ prepared by C. F. Loring, Esq., and given in Dwight's Journal of Music states that the case and original pipes retained were made in 1755 in London by Adam Smith. In 1883 this organ was remodelled by Hook & Hastings. The original front case and pipes were retained and the Pedal then contained 30 keys. The same company added an echo organ in 1892. The present organ was put in by the Ernest M. Skinner Company inside a new case made like the old one, but somewhat larger and containing pieces of wood of the original case and the original crown and mitres restored.19 They installed the old organ in 1910 in the First Baptist Church, Brockton, Mass., where it has been replaced since 1925 by a modern electric organ.
5Christ Church, Cambridge, celebrated in 1764 the inauguration of an organ made in 1761 by Snetzler of London, the best maker of the day. This was procured through the efforts of Barlow Trecothick, Esq., later Lord Mayor of London, who was a brother-in-law of the rector, Rev. Mr. Apthorp. "Although like other English organs of the day it had no pedals, and a compass of less than five octaves, it was considered on all sides a very fine instrument, and was apparently rather too much for the simple skill of colonial
719 Information supplied by Rev. Dr. John Carroll Perkins, Minister Emeritus.
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