2002-05-01 - Nave, Balcony, and Organ Case (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)
OHS convention: 2003
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1986 -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Center rear gallery. Damaged when electronic organ installed c. 1965 (pipes crushed, action damaged). Restored in 1983 by J. R. McFarland. Wood 16' Trombone added to Pedal. Ded. 14 Jul 1985 by Karl E. Moyer. Pneumatic stop and combination action. -Database Manager
2005-03-09 - Restored 2004 by Columbia Organ Works. Facade Pipes re-stenciled to original colors and patterns. Chests retabled, multiple pipe repairs, reeds restored. -Database Manager
2012-03-12 - Updated through online information from Julien Girard. -Database Manager
2012-03-12 - Updated through online information from Julien Girard. -- Trombone 16 missing at the Pedal -Database Manager
2013-11-07 - Updated through online information from Evan Brickner. -Database Manager
2014-07-04 - Updated through online information from John Igoe. -Database Manager
2022-04-26 - First used for church on Sunday, 26 April 1891. Dedicated in "Grand Concert" 18 May 1891. From *The News-Journal* (Lancaster, PA) 28 April 1891: **St. Joseph's New Organ.** The new organ for St. Joseph's church has been put up, and was tried on Sunday. A grand concert will be given on the evening of Whit Monday, May 18. Prof. Henry Eyer Browne, of Talmage's church, Brooklyn, and Prof. De Bold, also of Brooklyn, will take part in the concert. A grand vocal concert will also be given, in which a number of fine soprano, tenor, first and second bass voices will participate. -Paul R. Marchesano
Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Lancaster, PA c. 1890 Cark Barckhoff (Stoplist: SchnuteDB 1997; T 9:4:5) GREAT 16' Open Diapason 8' Open Diapason 8' Melodia 8' Gamba 8' Dulciana 4' Principal 4' Flute 3' Twelfth 2' Fifteenth 8' Trumpet III Mixture SWELL 16' Bourdon 8' Open Diapason 8' Slicional 8' Aeoline 8' Stopped Diapason 4' Fugara 4' Flute Harmonique 2' Piccolo III Cornet 8' Cornopean 8' Oboe PEDAL 16' Double Open Diapason 16' Sub Bass 8' Violincello Writer states that instrument is in poor condition /ds/
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