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Henry Erben (1839)

Images

1937-07-13 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Nathaniel R. Ewan; image courtesy of the Library of Congress/Database Manager)

1937-07-13 - Organ Case and Keydesk (Photograph by Nathaniel R. Ewan; image courtesy of the Library of Congress/Database Manager)

1937-07-13 - Altar and Organ Case (Photograph by Nathaniel R. Ewan; image courtesy of the Library of Congress/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

• Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
• 1 manuals
• 5 stops
• 5 registers
• 1 divisions
• Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
• Stop action Type: Mechanical
• Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
• Expression Type: Trigger/Hitch-Down Expression

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1995. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Furnished with a good organ. Believed extant in 1995. [Gift of Trinity Church, NYC?] [Once believed to be Queen Anne organ which had been at Trinity Church, NYC.] -Database Manager

2009-03-06 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- According to the March 1, 1954 issue of The Diapason, in an article by D. DeWitt Wasson, this organ was presented to Trinity Church in New York in 1713 as a gift by Queen Anne of England. This is substantiated by the presence of an inscribed metal plate hidden inside the organ. It was given to St. Luke's ca. 1839 by Trinity Church, and was presumably installed by Henry Erben, which accounts for the Erben nameplate above the manuals. The facade consists of two flats of 3 gold dummy pipes at the outsides, surmounted by carved crowns; and an ornately carved wooden grille in the center -- reminiscent of a rose window -- and backed by rust-colored cloth. -Database Manager

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