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Quimby Pipe Organs, Inc. (1978)

First Lutheran Church
201 West Briggs Avenue
Fairfield, IA

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
2 manuals
13 stops
2 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Flat Jambs
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2004-10-30 - The original builder was J. G. Pfeffer & Son (c. 1906). -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1978. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - From First Presbyterian, Peabody, KS, 1978. Installed here and rebuilt by Quimby -Database Manager

2012-10-26 - Updated through online information from Richard C Greene. -- Moved from First Presbyterian, Peabody, KS and installed in Fairfield in 1978 -Database Manager

2017-09-03 - Updated by Steve Berg, who has heard or played the organ.<br> I was music director at First Lutheran 2001 through 2005. According to the current organist, this instrument failed badly a few years ago. It was dismantled and sent to a landfill. Replaced by an Allen. (I updated the information about the instrument as it was before it was removed.) -Database Manager

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