2005-09-13 - Dedicated 28 Nov 1884. (Information from <i>The Indicator</i>, Dec. 3, 1884, p. 423.) -Database Manager
2011-01-18 - Updated through online information from Rick Erickson. -- Cost in 1884 was $3,1000[*sic* should be $3,100]. According to a handwritten memo in the church's archives Prof. Alfred Thorsten Lindgren (organist 1890-1921) made various changes to the organ. He replaced the Swell Mixture with a 2- Flautino ("very useful in solo combinations") and 8- Aeoline ("the full organ being brilliant enough without the Swell mixture"). He split the single 16- Swell Lieblich Bourdon into two stops, bass and treble, and heightened the Swell box by 2½ feet. This allowed the stopped wood bottom octave basses of the Swell Open Diapason to be replaced with full-length metal basses. The Open Diapason and Cornopean also exchanged places on the windchest so that the former could be "better heard" and the latter-s "strong quality" better shaded. He further packed away the Great Mixture pipes in a box, replacing it with another Diapason, using in part the stopped wood bases of the Swell Diapason. In February 1893 Lindgren added an electric blower motor with pulley attachment "made by my young friend Aaron Palmer", though gas lighting was still in use in the church until after sometime after the Second World War. Organ then rebuilt as a 4-manual by the Bennett Organ Co. in 1925 at a cost of about $30,000 -Database Manager
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