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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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1after his death in 1885 by his brother, Frank H. Roosevelt. It was given up in 1893 and the Farrand & Votey Co. of Detroit bought the stock and patents. The Roosevelt Company had built in 1878 the organ in the Cathedral of Garden City, Long Island, of 115 stops, the second largest in the United States at that time. The Chicago Auditorium organ with 109 stops, built by Farrand & Votey, was third in size.12 The Roosevelt Company used electric action in one of the great 3 manual organs built for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876. This was later sold to the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association in Boston.
3About 1909 the company was reorganized, with the Flaherty Brothers, Fred and Charles, supplying some of the financial support, and became the Hutchings Organ Co. The factory was moved to Waltham where it occupied space in E. W. Lane's factory for a few years and then the company built its own plant at Clematis Brook, Waltham. An office was maintained first at [address hidden] and then at [address hidden] till the company failed, about 1917.
5Mr. Hutchings while not himself a voicer, gathered a wonderful group of workers who assisted him in building organs of the finest quality. This company built and rebuilt altogether from 1869 to September 1, 1897 433 organs,13 both church and concert, mainly for New England. The earliest organs had the older tracker mechanical action, but later ones had pneumatic and electrical action.
7Among the organs built by this company are the following:
9NEW OLD SOUTH CHURCH, Boston,
10before it was rebuilt by Skinner. This was built by Hutchings, Plaisted & Co. and dedicated January 12, 1876. It was described by Eugene Thayer14 as "one of the largest and best in the country. Its action work and mechanism will bear the closest inspection, and it is a genuine pleasure to examine anything so strongly and beautifully made. The materials used in its construction are of the best quality. . . . The intonation or voicing is, however, the crowning excellence of the work; most of it being of the loveliest character imaginable. The total cost of the work was about $15,000. The framework of the Organ façade is of solid cherry, and the pipes in prospect of pure tin." It had three manuals of 58 notes each and and a Pedale of 30 notes and a total of 3462 pipes, as follows:
1212 American History and Encyclopedia of Music p. 328.
1313 From a list of their organs.
1414 Thayer, Eugene. The Organist's Quarterly Journal and Review, April 1876 pp. 3 & 4.
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