2004-10-30 - Restored by Jim McFarland (or Columbia Organ Works?) c. 1998. We also recently restored the (still) unknown organ at St. Thomas R.C. in Bedford, PA. Its a delightful instrument with very strident voicing and the most peculiar pedal coupler action and even a pedal-to-pedal octave coupler. It is sized with German language newspapers from Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, utilized the h for b, b for b-flat tablature, and has plug in toes on the woodpipes. it has a tremblant-doux, and the shims on the gibs (for slider clearance) are tickets to a choir concert in Philadelphia dated 1875. I guess, based on newspaper dates which are coeval that it can be assigned as circa 1875. It's construction details are like none I have seen. -Database Manager
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