2013-07-31 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by Steven E. Lawson, using information found in Odell Ledger. -- -Database Manager
2016-07-16 - This organ employed the Odell firm's first use of the "Odell Pneumatic Composition Knobs" -- thumb pistons in the key-slip of the manual whose stops they acted upon. The Odells also included their register crescendo pedal device. -Database Manager
2016-07-16 - EXHIBITION OF DR. GRANT'S NEW ORGAN.<br> "Few men are better known throughout the country than Dr. Grant, of Iona, whose grapes, graperies and grape-treatises are standard tests and authorities among agriculturists, vineyard devotees and men of "elegant leisure" at home and abroad. The Doctor [he was a dentist] has a passion for good music, and with his usual discrimination ordered some time since a large organ for his pleasant home on the island. Yesterday the organ was exhibited at the factory of the builders, Messrs. Odell, to a company of professionals, experts and amateurs, Mr. Elder, the blind organist, and Mr. Geo. W. Morgan officiating as interpreters. The organ is a remarkably handsome instrument, with two banks of keys and twenty-eight stops. Mr. [Thomas] Robjohn's invention of reversible coupling by means of knobs is applied to this instrument, by which the player is enabled to make a great number of combinations without removing his fingers from the key board. Mr. Elder played, with fine effect, a storm piece, Mr. Morgan gave a variety of selections in his happiest manner, closing with the celebrated arrangement of the William Tell overture. A more enjoyable occasion has rarely been noted--the organ is a grand success, the entertainment was in every way delightful." <i>The New York Times</i>, Feb. 11, 1866 (courtesy Rollin Smith) -Database Manager
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