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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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1Chapel, Harvard University.38 His last Boston factory was on [address hidden]
3Thomas Appleton built good tracker-action organs, many with 3 manuals, "35 for Boston alone and more than 100 for other cities. His first complete instrument was the Church Green organ used for a time in a church on the corner of Summer and Bedford Streets, Boston. This organ was afterwards removed to a Baptist Church in Providence, Rhode Island, where it was used until about the time of the great Boston fire [Nov. 1872]. Then it was brought back to Boston and placed in the new South Church, corner of Tremont and Camden Streets. It was afterward partially rebuilt by George Ryder."[address hidden] may be this organ, since it is located in a church at this address now called the People's Baptist Church, is still in use, but it does not appear rebuilt. It is dated 1844 on the name plate which seems too late for his first complete organ. It has 3 manuals and 34 stops, some divided, and a two octave Pedal Organ. Below Tenor "G" on the Swell there is what amounts to a permanent coupler with the Choir Organ. A number of the stops have beautiful tones, particularly the "Flauto Traverso," which is a remarkably fine reproduction of a flute tone.
5Another organ built the same year as his first complete church organ was set up in St. Paul's, Boston, and afterward sent to New Orleans. Other organs were sent to Bangor, Portland, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston, Savannah, Columbia, South Carolina, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Buffalo and Rochester, New York.
7When in business alone Thomas Appleton built the organ in Barnard Memorial Chapel, Boston. This had 2 manuals, one and a half keyboards, the lower to "[address hidden]" only, Swell to middle "C" and twelve pedal notes.38 He also built a fine instrument for St. Mary's Church, Lowell, which went thence to Weymouth Roman Catholic Church.40 One of his organs built for a Salem, Massachusetts, church was moved to the Avenue Methodist Church, ([address hidden]) Beverly, and used there for some years.41 It probably had 3 manuals, Swell, Great and Choir, originally. The handsome mahogany case was rounded out at the front and flat at the top. When the French Catholics took over this church most of
938 Statement of James Cole, organ builder.
1039 Goodrich, Henry A. Church Organs: Some of the Early Builders in New England pp. 8 & 9.
1140 Statement of William B. Goodwin.
1241 Information supplied by A. C. Foster who played on this organ at one time.
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