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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
23 lines. Read by computer on 27 September 2026. Printed page 183. See the scan on archive.org.
1TRINITARIAN CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, Concord, Massachusetts
22 manuals
3CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, Southington, Connecticut
43 manuals
5ST. MARY'S CHURCH, Lewiston, Maine
63 manuals
7WESTMINSTER UNITARIAN CHURCH, Providence, Rhode Island
83 manuals
9TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Potsdam, New York
103 manuals
11CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, Everett, Massachusetts
12John Herman Loud, who played at the dedication of the new two manual Frazee organ, in 1924, wrote of it to the company as "an organ which was so satisfactory in every way. The voicing of the instrument is exquisite. The strings on the Swell are simply beautiful and the same may be truthfully said about the Diapasons, Flutes and Reeds: Cornopean, Oboe and Vox Humana."27
14The residence organ of Ernest B. Dane, Brookline, Massachusetts, of 4 manuals and 86 stops, is one of the largest private organs in the United States today.
16HARVARD CLUB
174 manuals, 67 stops (non-borrowed). This was an outstanding concert organ when it was installed, and the only strictly concert one about Boston. William King Covell, after playing on this instrument described it Oct. 27, 1927 as follows28 "It is a very fine instrument indeed. The voicing of the Diapasons is particularly good, while the Solo Tuba is, without exception, the finest I have heard. It would take too long to enumerate the many excellencies of the voicing, but I must speak of the excellent quality of the Swell and Solo strings and the large flutes of Great and Solo.
19"It is very rare to find a large modern organ possessing the advantages of electric action, combination action, etc., together with the excellence of tone of the old instruments. This does not mean that the instrument is lacking in the more orchestral voices, or modern chorus reeds, but simply that, together with these, you have preserved the wonderful oldtime Diapason tone to a greater degree than has almost any other American builder. I think you resemble, in this respect, some of the best of the present day English builders; judging not from paper alone but from what I heard when visiting England two years ago."
2127 A brochure entitled Frazee Organs. Testimonials p. 18.
2228 Ibid p. 19.
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