Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2004-10-30 - Ded 8 May 1853. Cost $1,600. Replaced by 1918 Moller, Op. 2718. -Database Manager
2022-01-17 - "On Dec. 13, 1852, a contract was made with Mr. Samuel Bohler for the erection of a new organ for $1600, he taking the old organ at $600. The new organ was dedicated on May 8, 1853, when Dr. Philip Schaif preached the dedicatory sermon." In 1875 Samuel Bohler returned: "The remodeling included the repairing of the organ by Mr. Samuel Bohler, who had erected the organ twenty-five years previous. In the fall of 1S92 an electric motor was introduced as the motive power for the organ. Before that time the bellows had always been operated by hand power, which was hard labor." -- information from* History of the Reformed church in Reading, Pa.*, DANIEL MILLER, JAN 24 1906. -Paul R. Marchesano
2022-01-28 - "The organ was built in 1852 by our fellow citizen, Mr. Samuel Bohler. This fine instrument is called is called a great and swell organ, with double bank and has 26 stops. It is 15 feet front by 8 feet in depth, height 20 feet. It is somewhat in the Gothic style, and is the largest, with one exception, in the city." -- from an article on the German Reformed Church in Reading, "City Sketches, No. 18", *Reading Times* (Reading, Pennsylvania) · 30 Nov 1861, Sat · Page 2. See documents for full article -Paul R. Marchesano
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