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Reuben Midmer & Son (1904)

Images

2015-10-04 - Detailed view of front facade pipes (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

2015-10-04 - Side view of facade in loft (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

2015-10-04 - Steep upward view of case in gallery from floor (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

Consoles

Main

• Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
• Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
• 2 manuals
• 20 stops
• Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
• Stop action Type: Mechanical
• Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Flat Jambs
• Manual compass: 61 notes
• Pedal compass: 30 notes
• Pedal Type: Flat Straight
• Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
• Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1991. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Electrified. Repaired & missing reeds replaced 1990 by Columbia Organ Works. Rear gallery. Carnegie grant for 1/2 the cost ($2800). -Database Manager

2007-11-12 - Updated through online information from Christopher Howerter. -- I know a parishioner that lives next to the church and I've played the instrument. They have a contract with the Columbia Organ Works to refurbish the instrument and it should be done by next September. The only sort of combination action is a set of fixed push down toe studs that mechanically push out the stops for the manuals only. There are two for each manual (a swell piano and forte, and a great piano and forte), which are to the left of the swell pedal. The pedal does not have mechanical stop actions, which is different from the manuals. There is also a toe stud on the right of the swell pedal that does not work. The swell pedal is also mechanical. -Database Manager

2021-12-16 - Dedication concert November 15[?], 1904, by Mrs. Amy Oberlin, organist of the First Methodist Church [Columbia] -- *Intelligencer Journal* (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) · 16 Nov 1904, Wed · Page 4 -Paul R. Marchesano

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