Better Pipe Organ Database

Henry Erben (1859)

Trinity Episcopal Church
Avenue D and 6th Street
Apalachicola, FL

Images

1962-04-06 - Nave, Gallery, and Organ Case (Photograph by Jack E. Boucher; image courtesy of the Library of Congress/Database Manager)

1962-04-06 - Organ Case (Photograph by Jack E. Boucher; image courtesy of the Library of Congress/Database Manager)

1962-04-06 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Jack E. Boucher; image courtesy of the Library of Congress/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Keydesk Attached
1 manuals
7 stops
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: No Enclosed Divisions
Combination action: None

Notes

2004-10-30 - In storage at church 1925-1975. Rebuilt 1975-76 by Pennington Pendarvis of Blountstown, FL. Church also has electrified Pilcher, per WTVP. -Database Manager

2007-10-06 - Updated through online information from Stephen Hall. -- This is the second Erben organ used at Trinity church, and the oldest pipe organ in Florida in its original site and still in use. The organ is on the left side of the chancel with a 1922 Picher on the opposite side. The building was constructed in 1837 in New York, cut in sections and shipped to Florida where it was reassembled. The church's website has a history of the building and its instruments. Organ is in regular use for services (2007) -Database Manager

2012-04-12 - Updated through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -- This organ replaced an earlier Henry Erben organ of 1840, of which the fate is unknown. -Database Manager

2012-05-06 - Updated through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -- In"A Tale of Two Organs: Henry Erben and Apalachicola, Florida," 2000, Robert C. Delvin states that an Erben organ was in place by 1840, but that for unknown reasons, this organ was replaced by another Henry Erben organ in 1859, which is present in the church today, and has been restored. -Database Manager

2015-08-10 - Updated through online information from Stephen Hall. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from Pensacola AGO web site Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Apalachicola, Florida
Trinity Episcopal Church

Henry Erben   1859   7 stops, 7 ranks
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        MANUAL
   [8'] Open Diapason
   [8'] Dulciana
   [8'] Stopped Diapason Treble
   [8'] Stopped Diapason Bass
   [8'] Gamba
   [4'] Principal
   [2'] Flageolet

        PEDAL
  [16'  Bourdon?]

        Mechanical action


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2015-08-28]

Websites

[Church web site - Organs page - no title] - Photograph, stoplists of both instruments (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)