2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1997 -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - From St. James Episcopal, Richmond, VA; via Trinity Methodist (now New Light Baptist), Richmond. Water damage. [Is this organ still at this location. Baird more recently listed in Bealeton, VA.] Organ in storage as of 1997. -Database Manager
Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
James Baird res., Herndon or Bealton, VA. (from St. James Episcopal, Richmond, VA) 1839 Henry Erben (Stoplist: A Richmond Organ History by Donald R. Tresor 1998) The stoplist which follows was compiled from the stop labels and from his memory and is taken from a letter to me: GREAT Open Diapason Gr. (Stopped Diapason) (Principal) Flûte à cheminée Twelfth (Fifteenth) Mixture Trumpet SWELL Violine Diapason Sw.** (St'd Diapason) St'd Diapason Bass Sw. (Principal) Principal Bass Sw. Aeoline Sw.** (blank-possibly a reed) PEDAL Open Diapason Ped. The stops in parentheses are missing labels, but are existing pipes. The stops marked ** are presumably 1875 replacements. The blank on the Swell could be a bellows signal. The first stop in the Swell box was originally a reed, maybe an oboe or clarion, and could have been replaced with the aeoline, as I remember thirteen stops, not fourteen, as above. The pedal has the original thirteen pipes plus eight more from 1875. The organ is ac compass, and the Swell has the two basses on a separate chest marked Choir. Top note on the keyboards is an F, I believe. In 1875 an addition to the reservoir was added, enlarging it from two feeders to three, with a crankshaft and large flywheel, replacing an original hand up-and-down handle. Erben's name is on the music rack in large gold (leaf) emblem as "Henry Erben/New York."
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