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George Krauss (1864)

Goschenhoppen Folk Life Museum: Red Men's Hall
116 Gravel Pike
Green Lane, PA

OHS convention: 1996


Images


1995 - Organ in front left corner (Photograph from an archival source: 1996 OHS Handbook, William T. Van Pelt, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

Consoles

Main


Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1996 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Built for Holy Infancy Church R. C., Bethlehem, PA. Sold to St. John Lutheran, Center Square, Montgomery Co., PA in 1888. Given to Bethel Hill Methodist, Worcester Township in 1926, installed by Mudler-Hunter. Moved to Ironbridge Union Sunday School chapel, Rahns, Perkiomen Township , Montgomery Co. PA by Samual H. Barrington. Given to Goschenhoppen Museum in 1972. [From St. Paul's Anglican, Rahns, PA ?]. Museum operated by Goschenhoppen Historians, Inc. Restored by Ray Brunner 1982. [May be an August Pomplitz. Not mentioned in Brunner book chapter regarding Krauss family.] -Database Manager


Stoplist

Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Goschenhoppen Folk Life Museum, Green Lane, PA
1864 Krauss
(Stoplist: Dieffenbuch 14:9)

Manual (54 notes)
8' Open Diapason (12 stopped wood basses, 42 open metal pipes)
8' Dulciana (Lowest 12 notes from Stopped Diap., 42 open metal pipes)
8' Stopped Diap. (42 stopped wood pipes, 12 open wood trebles)
4' Principal (5 open wood basses, 49 open metal pipes)
4' Flute (7 stopped wood basses, 35 open wood pipes, 12 metal trebles)
2' Fifteenth (54 open metal pipes)
1 1/3' Twelfth (54 open metal pipes, top octave a 2 2/3' pitch)

Pedal
Pedal Couple (no pipes, couples to manual)


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