Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2005-05-28 - Identified through information from a broadside printed October 15, 1841 by Henry Erben following a fire at his manufactory. -Database Manager
2012-09-15 - Updated through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -- see stoplist -Database Manager
2023-07-18 - From -New York Daily Herald, Oct. 3, 1859 Lengthy article announcing the instrument. 3 manuals, Pedal compass 29 notes, Key desk extends 3 ft in front of case. -Steven Bartley
Typed stoplist (Source: Ogasapian, 1977) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Christ Church
Mobile, Alabama
Henry Erben, 1859
OHS ID: 18103
OHS path: AL/Mobile.ChristChurch.1859Erben.stoplist01.txt
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GREAT (C-g''', 56 notes) SWELL (c-g''', 44 notes) CHOIR
16 Double Open Diapason 16 Bourdon 8 Open Diapason
8 Open Diapason 8 Open Diapason 8 Kerolophon [sic]
8 Gamba* 8 Viol d'Amour* 8 Dulciana
8 Stopped Diapason Bass 8 Dulciana* 8 Stop'd Diapason Bass
8 Stopped Diapason Treble 8 Stop'd Diapason 8 Stop'd Diapason Treble
8 Melodia* 4 Principal 8 Clarabella
4 Principal 4 Pyramid Flute* 4 Principal
4 Night Horn* 4 Violana* 4 Flute
2-2/3 Twelfth 2 Fifteenth 2 Flageolet
2 Fifteenth 8 Cornet [sic] 8 Basson [sic] (Clarionet Bass?)
2 Sesquialtra [sic] 8 Trumpet 8 Clarionet
2 Mixture [sic] 8 Hautboy*
8 Trumpet Tremulent [sic] PEDAL
4 Clarion 16 Double Open Diapason
COUPLERS 16 Bourdon
*"solo stops" Swell to Great 8 Violoncello
Choir to Great 4 Flute
Swell to Choir 16 Trampone [sic]
Great to Pedal
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