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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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1ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH, Albany, New York,
2built in 1859, the largest in the United States at that time. "This had 3 manuals of 58 notes each, a pedal organ of 10 stops, and a total of 50 stops. It was 29 feet wide, 40 feet high and 36 feet deep from the front to the rear row of loud pedal trombone pipes. In addition the pneumatic pressure takes the blow from his fingers, and throws it back upon the bellows blower, so that the touch is never harder than that of a grand piano."4 This organ was made electric by Jesse Woodberry.
4APPLETON CHAPEL, Harvard University, Cambridge,
5built in 1859. This had 3 manuals of 56 notes, 40 stops, 27 pedal keys, 56 registers musical and mechanical, and 2300 pipes. "Some of these (imitation stops) were introduced for the first time in an American instrument. Of these we may note the German Viola di Gamba, . . . the kindred tone of the Viola d'Amore. . . . Then there is the Flute Octaviante, that curious much-heard-of-thing, the Vox Humana, . . . the 16 foot Fagott in the swell, which with its kindred Oboe, are here of the richest reediest quality, the Spitzflöte, . . . the 16 foot Posaune, or trombone in the pedal, . . . the Vox Angelica, . . . the Aeolina, . . . the Cornopean and the Corno di Bassetto." These were all spoken of then as "fancy stops." It had "a full swell pneumatic great organ and Tacit pneumatic."5 The crescendo and diminuendo of a swell arrangement was spoken of as probably to be added.
7KING'S CHAPEL, Boston.
8When this was rebuilt, by Simmons in 1860, it had 3 manuals of 56 notes, C to G, 38 stops and a pedal organ of 27 notes, C1 to d. Some of the old diapasons, mixtures and other pipes of some 11 stops altogether were retained.6
10ST. IGNATIUS' CHURCH, Baltimore, Maryland,
11built in 1860. This had 3 manuals, a pedal organ and 30 stops.7
13ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, Louisville, Kentucky,
14built in 1860. This also had 3 manuals, of 56 notes, a pedal organ, 35 stops.8
16CHURCH OF THE ADVENT, Boston.
17This organ was removed from Williams Hall and placed in this church in 1865. It was "built by W. B. D. Simmons & Co. was always considered one of the best of their many excellent works. It had Great, Swell, Choir and Pedal Organs with Pedal Check and Bellows signal, and 51 draw stops."9
194 Dwight's Journal of Music Vol. 15, September 17, 1859 pp. 198 & 199.
205 Ibid Vol. 15, May 14, 1859 pp. 53 & 54.
216 Ibid Vol. 17, April 21, 1860 p. 31.
227 Ibid Vol. 17, May 19, 1860 p. 63.
238 Ibid Vol. 17, July 21, 1860 p. 134.
249 Ibid Vol. 25, October 28, 1865 p. 128.
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