Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2023-06-21 - PIPE ORGAN INSTALLED A big pipe organ has been installed in Christ's Church (Episcopal). This organ is a handsome one costing bout $2500. As soon as the organ is installed, organist Wells will give an organ recital. -- *Tar Heel*, 21 Apr 1911, Fri · Page 1 Also in the same newspaper, an announcement two years prior: (*Tar Heel*, 29 Jan 1909, Fri · Page 2): EPISCOPALIANS GOOD WORK They Make Fine Showing For Last Year NEW PROJECTS NEXT MOVE OF THE MEMBERSHIP OF CHRIST CHURCH WILL BE TO INSTALL A HANDSOME PIPE ORGAN AND TO BUILD A PARISH HOUSE NEXT TO THE CHURCH. WORK AT MISSION STATIONS. During tne past year under the rectorship of Claudins F. Smith, Christ Episcopal church has made splendid progress and the membership is a live and active body. The next special work the church will undertake is to put in a $2500 pipe organ and to build a parish house on the grounds next to the church. -Paul R. Marchesano
2023-06-24 - Email from Charles Eberline, 21 June 2023: According to Stephen Pinel's Work-List of Henry Erben, page 337, the 1911 organ in Christ Church, Episcopal, Elizabeth City, was "A.B. Felgemaker, Op. 1171, a two-manual organ with 11 registers"; among his sources, he cites a Felgemaker list...The Felgemaker list is presumably the one in William Edward Lindberg's 1976 University of Pittsburgh Ph.D. dissertation. "OHS Organ List: A Working Document" (© 1996 Organ Historical Society) lists "Elizabeth City Christ Episcopal Austin EP" (EP = electropneumatic) and the 1846 Erben for Christ Episcopal, with no mention of a 1911 instrument. -Paul R. Marchesano
2023-06-24 - The attribtion of a 1911 Austin at Christ Episcopal seems unlikely. A review of the Austin opus list shows the first Austin installed in No. Carolina to be Opus 214, ca. 1908 for the School for the Deaf and Blind in Raleigh. The next listed Austin is Opus 415, ca. 1912 for West End Methodist in Winston-Salem; and then the following year [1913] Opus 448 for First Presbyterian also in Winston-Salem. -Jim Stettner
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