2014-11-29 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by John Igoe, using information found in an article by Steve Bartley in the October 2014 Issue of the Hilbus Chapter OHS newsletter "Where the Tracker Action Is". -- Bartley notes: New organ incorporated case and possibly some pipes from earlier. 3 man/ped. 47 speaking stops $10,000. -Database Manager
2023-11-03 - from - Der Deutsche Correspondent May 11, 1903 Lenthy article concerning the new Niemann organ in St. Alphonsus 46 registers cost $3,000 Pneumatic key and coupler action one 32' stop Seven 16' stops Twenty one 8' stop 10 reed stops. -Steven Bartley
2023-11-03 - from - Baltimore Sun Dec 10, 1903: "..Further improvements are underway, and by January 1 it is expected that two fine memorial windows will be place in postition in the sanctuary, and a new organ installed. This organ will have 47 "speaking" stops and, it is said, will be one of the largest in the city. It being built by H. H. Niemann, of Baltimore. (The organ project was carried out by Frank Niemann, though Frank kept the name of the company "Henry Niemann". Local Baltimore organ lore says that the original 1840s Schwab organ case was reused, including the Ruckpositive case. It is hard to know how much was new and how much was reused of the Schwab organ. Frank had undertaken several large organ projects, after his father's death, where large extant organs were involved. There too original casework pipes were reused. During the 1950s Moller renovation, the Schwab main case was not reused, but the Ruckpositive case was left in place, though silent. -Steven Bartley
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