2009-10-20 - Identified through online information from Richard C Greene. -Database Manager
2012-09-28 - Updated through online information from Richard C Greene. -Database Manager
2021-01-14 - According to Roland R. Rutz, his firm restored this organ ca. 1992. It was originally built for Trinity Lutheran Church of Faribault, Minnesota and was moved to rural Janesville about 1911. -Jim Stettner
Source: Stoplist from Mark Thompson and Robert Hoppe Date not recorded
Janesville (Freedom Township), Minnesota Immanuel Lutheran Church Carl Barckhoff, 1885 Unknown Person or Firm, ca. 1911 - Relocation and Re-installation MANUAL (Expressive - 58 Notes) 8 Open Diapason 8 Flute 8 Dulciana 4 Principal 4 Harmonic Flute PEDAL ORGAN (27 notes) 16 Subbase COUPLER Manual to Pedal NOTES The Immanual organ is a Carl Barckhoff instrument, dated 1885. It was originally built for Trinity Lutheran Church in Faribault, Minnesota. The façade pipes are made of high tin content pipe metal. This organ was voiced by Philip Wirsching; there is a photograph of a pipe that bears his signature. This organ has the entire original case and action. An electric blower was added at some point. The expression shutters are intact on this instrument. [Received on line from Richard C. Greene; October 21, 2009.]
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