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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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1Manual I—[address hidden] 1276 pipes
2Manual II—[address hidden] 1044 pipes
3Manual III—[address hidden] 812 pipes
4Pedale —[address hidden] 330 pipes
6This was rebuilt by Hutchings-Votey to a 4 manual organ, with the 'Great' as the bottom manual, French style, and an Echo Organ was added. This has been rebuilt again by the Skinner Organ Company.
8ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S CHURCH, New York City.
9A new chancel organ was built and the old gallery organ was connected with the console of the chancel organ by Hutchings, Plaisted & Co.
10In a table dated 1897 this organ was listed as the ninth of the twenty-two largest organs in the world. It retained the big old gallery organ and had 4 manuals, 98 speaking stops, 26 mechanical stops, 19 pedal movements, 36 piston combinations, 179 tonal stops and 6042 pipes. The average size of the organs of most of the large churches and cathedrals of Europe at this same time (1897) was about 3 manuals, 30-40 stops, and 2000-3000 pipes.15
12MISSION CHURCH, Roxbury, Massachusetts.
133 manuals.
15TRINITY CHURCH, Boston,
16The firm of George S. Hutchings put in a new chancel organ and connected it with the Hilbourne Roosevelt Gallery organ on one console of 4 manuals. This was later rebuilt first by James Cole and then by the Skinner Organ Company which replaced and rebuilt.
18ARLINGTON STREET CHURCH, Boston,
19electric action with old style blind combinations on it.
21JORDAN HALL, New England Conservatory, Boston,
223 manuals; the gift of Eben D. Jordan, rebuilt by the Skinner Organ Company.
24CHURCH OF THE ADVENT, Boston,
253 manuals.
27EMMANUEL CHURCH, Boston.
29ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Brookline, Massachusetts,
30by Hutchings, Plaisted & Co.
32A RESIDENCE ORGAN FOR SAMUEL CARR,
333 manuals; a duplexed house organ with the "Great" as the bottom manual.
3515 Lahee, Henry C. "Organs and Organ Building in New England." New England Magazine, December 1897 p. 502.
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