2015-02-15 - Organ Case (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)
2015-02-15 - Organ Case (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)
OHS convention: 1996
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1984 -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Compass 49 notes. No pedals. Said to have been residence organ but probably built for Epler's Church, Bern Township ,, Berks Co, PA c. 1800. Removed from Epler's Church in 1877 and altered in 1879 by Thomas Dieffenbach as residence organ in Dieffenbach family. Donated here in 1920. Worked on by Thomas Eader. Restored in 1984 by Brunner & Heller. -Database Manager
2011-12-19 - Updated through online information from Adam F. Dieffenbach. -Database Manager
Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Historical Society of Berks County, Reading, Pennsylvania c. 1800 John Dieffenbach (Stoplist: David Schnute from Tr 15:3:5, emended from Brunner p. 115) Manual (49 notes) 8' Grob Gadackt (49 Walnut Pipes, stopped wood) 4' Principal (44 pipes, low 5 borrowed from 4' Klein Gadackt) 4' Qund:Dehn (49 Metal capped pipes) 4' Klein Gadackt (49 pipes, stopped wood) 4' Salicet (49 pipes; low 5 capped metal) 2' Octav (49 metal pipes, 39 in case) Date given as 1776 by Victor Dieffenbach. Dated May 1800 inside case, appears to be signed on back panel by John Jacob Dieffenbach in 1803. Piece of newspaper used to pack cap of a Quintadena pipe dated 1799. Stoplist spellings from inscriptions on parts of the stop action and historical sources. 4' Principal installed by Thomas Dieffenbach in 1879 and replaces a Mixture, probably 2rk. /ds/
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