2012-09-17 - Identified through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -- Ogasapian, 1977, reports that this was one of two two-manual, 28-register, 30-note pedalboard organs which Erben installed in Lewiston in 1870. The other was in St. John Roman Catholic Church. This organ, for First Baptist, had a black walnut case, and cost $6,000. -Database Manager
2022-09-09 - **From the *1992 OHS Handbook*:** In 1870, First Baptist moved to a handsome new brick church on Bates Street, complete with a new organ from the manufactory of Henry Erben, and sold their old building lo a group of Methodists who had broken off from the Park Street Methodist Church. -Paul R. Marchesano
Source: 1992 OHS Handbook
Great Organ (58 notes, CC to A) Open Diapason 8, Gamba 8, Keraulophon 8, Melodia 8, Stop Diapason Bass 8, Harmonic Flute 4, Principal 4, Twelfth 2⅔, Fifteenth 2, Mixture, Trumpet 8, Cremona 8
Swell Organ (58 notes, CC to A, enclosed) Bourdon 16, Open Diapason 8, Dulciana 8, Stop Diapason Bass 8, Stop Diapason Treble 8, Principal 4, Piccola [sic] 2, Cornet, Hautboy 8, Vox Tremulo
PEDALS (30 notes, CCC to F) Double Open Diapason 16, Bourdon 16, Violoncello 8
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