Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2007-02-17 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Only the chimes were retained from this instrument when a new Schantz was installed in 1967. -Database Manager
2016-12-08 - Updated through online information from J. A. Hefner. <br>The church was built in 1913; according to a Springfield News-Sun article on the church's centennial, the Lutheran Church as a whole had "little hope" for Trinity Lutheran, with the only available pastors being "theology students from Wittenberg University", with 23 charter members and attendance of 7 by 1929. <br>The sanctuary was rebuilt in 1965, hence the new Schantz organ mentioned. -Database Manager
2019-03-17 - Updated by J. A. Hefner, naming this as the source of information: Seventy-Five Years of Faith: Trinity Lutheran Church (1988). <br> <br>The 1988 church history states they purchased a Möller pipe organ for $1800 in 1943. This was the one from which the chimes were retained and reused with the new Schantz in 1967. -Database Manager
2019-03-17 - Updated by J. A. Hefner, naming this as the source of information: Seventy-Five Years of Faith: Trinity Lutheran Church (1988). <br> <br>According to the church history published in 1988, Trinity Lutheran did not have an organ in the original 1913 church.<br><br>The first organ installed was a Möller, in 1943. It cost $1800 and was used until the church was rebuilt in 1965 - its chimes were retained and reused in the 1967 Schantz organ.<br><br>This is the \"Only the chimes were retained from this instrument when a new Schantz was installed in 1967\" organ. -Database Manager
2019-04-17 - Updated by J. A. Hefner, who gave this as the source of the information: Seventy-Five Years of Faith: Trinity Lutheran Church (1988). <br> <br> -Database Manager
2023-06-20 - 1988 church history states it was a Moller, from which the chimes were retained when the Schantz was installed in the 1960s. -J. A. Hefner
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