2012-09-27 - Identified through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -Database Manager
2012-10-05 - Updated through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -- Owen, 1979, reports that this instrument remained in use until 1821, when Goodrich built a new instrument using at least the old Johnston case, and perhaps some of the pipework. -Database Manager
The author "P", writing on Organ-Building in New-England" in The New-England Magazine, Vol. 6 (1834), pp. 205-6 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Christ Episcopal (Old North) Church, Boston, Mass. 1756 Thomas Johnston organ GREAT: Open Diapason Stopt Diapason Principal Twelfth Fifteenth Sesquialter III ranks Trumpet SWELL or ECHO: Stopt diapason Principal Flute Trumpet "The three first stops of the swell were carried through in the bass, outside of the swell box, and thus formed a choir-organ and swell combined." [Received from John Speller 2013-05-20.]
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