2008-10-06 - Identified through information posted to PIPORG-L by Paul Opel: Here is an interesting organ looking for a home; it is in St. John's Episcopal, Chevy Chase, MD. The organ is an 1859 chamber organ built by August Pomplitz and Henry Rodewald. It is 11 feet tall, 7 feet wide, and 4 feet deep. The facade pipes are gilt dummies. The tallest pipes are just four feet tall and occupy only the top half of the case. -Database Manager
2008-10-07 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager
Typed stoplist (Source: Organ Clearing House website, 2007-10-26) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
St. John Episcopal Church, Norwood Parish
Chevy Chase, Maryland
Pomplitz & Rodewald, 1859
OHS ID: 36739
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MANUAL
8 Stopped Diapason Bass 17 pipes
8 Stopped Diapason Treble 37 pipes
8 Dulciana Treble 37 pipes
4 Principal 54 pipes
4 Flute 54 pipes
2 Fifteenth 54 pipes
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