Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2005-03-01 - Identified from company publications as edited and expanded in <i>The Hook Opus List 1829-1935</i>, ed. William T. Van Pelt (Organ Historical Society, 1991). -Database Manager
2023-06-21 - In 1858, at a meeting in Old City Hall in Pittburgh, PA, the North branch of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church and the Associate Presbyterian Church joined to form the United Presbyterian Church in North America. The churches had already begun to meet together sometime in the 2 years prior to denominational merger and they themselves merged in that same year. A group from the Associate Congregation rejected the merger and kept up their own gathering. In 1898 they purchased Grace Chapel on 13th Avenue. The first organ for our church was placed early in the pastorate of Rev. Robert L. Hay between 1892 and 1911. In those days, organs had to be manually pumped with air while being played. The history from the 125th anniversary recounts the process to run the early organ: As it was necessary in the early days of the instrument to pump compressed air from the bellows, young men in the congregation were engaged as official “pumpers…” As these assistants usually had a chair in back of the organ out of the view of both minister and congregation, on more than one occasion when the time came for the singing of the closing Psalm at the evening service, there would be no response from the bellow and the operator would be found to be safe in the arms of Morpheus. (aka asleep) -- from Church history web page, Westminster Church, New Brighton (accessed 2023-06-21) -Paul R. Marchesano
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