1992-04-21 - 1832 Henry Erben case (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
2004-10-30 - From St. Finbar's R.C. Church 1880. -Database Manager
2007-08-30 - Updated through online information from Stephen Hall. -- There are no pedal stops, pulldown only. Wicks organ company added electric pulldowns in the 1990s. The instrument may be played from the Wicks console as an Antiphonal division. -Database Manager
2007-09-01 - Updated through online information from Stephen Hall. -- According to the church's history brochure, the hand pumped bellows were retained when the electric blower was added. -Database Manager
2023-07-09 - From - The Charleston Mercury March 17, 1832, pg. 2 Mr. Henry Erben, Organ Builder of New York having just completed the erection of a delightful and well built Organ in the Baptist Church of this city, has contracted with the Vestry of St. Philip's Church to erect one for them on a very extensive scale. This Organ will contain nearly fifteen hundred pipe, twenty three stops three rows of keys a separate swell and pedals; it will of course contain four wind chests, and will cost $3500. ..................... -Steven Bartley
Stoplist copied from undocumented source Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Charleston, South Carolina
First Baptist Church
Henry Erben c.1847
8' Open Diapason
8' Stopped Diapason Bass
8' Stopped Diapason Treble
8' Dulciana
4' Principal Bass
4' Principal Treble
4' Flute
2' Fifteenth
8' Trumpet
[Received from Jeff Scofield
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