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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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1MEMORIAL CHURCH, Fairhaven, Massachusetts,
2 3 manuals; a gift of Hugo H. Rogers.
3WOOLSEY HALL, YALE COLLEGE, New Haven, Connecticut.
4UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Ann Arbor, Michigan,
5 since rebuilt.
6FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, Omaha, Nebraska,
7 3 manuals.
8SECOND CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, Holyoke, Massachusetts,
9 rebuilt first by this firm and then by Skinner.
10BROADWAY TEMPLE, New York City,
11 by Hutchings-Votey in 1905, 4 manuals, 70 stops and others borrowed, and electro-pneumatic movable console.
12SYMPHONY HALL, Boston,
13 by George S. Hutchings; of "Fifty-six stops, one of the finest organs in the United States." Frederick Dean described it thus in 1901—"If one wants the newest in organ construction, that in the new Symphony Hall in Boston is an illustration. It is 50 feet wide, 36 feet high, 12 feet deep and weighs 30 tons. It contains 25 miles of wire, 6500 pneumatic bellows, and 3492 pipes, ranging in length from 3/4 inch to 32 feet. The biggest pipes weigh a thousand pounds each. When the hall was opened a year ago, one of the music critics declared that for the first time Boston had heard a chorus and orchestra fully supported by a thoroughly fine organ." 17
15The last organization of this concern, The Hutchings Organ Company, built the organs in:
16 FREE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, Andover, Massachusetts.
17 CENTRE METHODIST CHURCH, Malden, Massachusetts.
18 The Hutchings Company also made under a contract an "Organette" with one stop of one and a half octaves which played only from perforated music. 18
19 Beside the organs themselves, which are among the finest American organs ever made, Mr. Hutchings invented, improved or successfully used for the first time many mechanical features. This company has contributed the important innovation of applying to organs the principle of the rotary fan, known as the "Sturtevant Blower Fan." [address hidden] organ in New York Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church in Brooklyn and another in a Columbus, Ohio,
2116 American History and Encyclopedia of Music p. 328.
2217 Dean, Frederick. "American Organs and Organists." Junior Munsey. November 1901 p. 256.
2318 Information supplied by Ernest M. Skinner.
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