2004-10-30/2019-10-01 - From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991). — Active in Bellows Falls, Vermont, c. 1811; chamber organs. [Possible relation to George Silsby in Denver CO c. 1875] Sources: Barbara Owen. Elizabeth Towne Schmitt. Richard M. Watson, Letter to the Editor, The Tracker 9:4, (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1965), 5.
2019-10-02/2019-10-02 - From Organ Database Builders editor Stephen Hall, October 1, 2019. — Richard Watson's Letter to the Editor describes an organ by Silsby & Co.: The case is quite plain, and is about 7’8” in height. The keyboard swings out and down to playing positions on hinges, revealing the stop knobs, three on each side. Wind is supplied by a single feeder operated by a cast iron foot lever. The instrument is, in outward appearance, very similar to the one in a museum in Boston which once belonged to Oliver Holden. The stoplist is as follows: 8’ Stopped Diapason (bass-12 pipes) 8’ Stopped Diapason (treble wood, actually a Rohrgedeckt) 8’ Dulciana (tc) 4’ Principal 2 2/3’ Twelfth (descant) 2’ Fifteenth (descant) There is very light niching on the stopped diapason and dulciana; others are unnicked. Manual compass is 56 notes.
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