2015-04-30 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by David Bohn, based on information learned from a conversation with Elizabeth Townes Schmitt. -- -Database Manager
2015-05-10 - Updated through online information from David Bohn. -Database Manager
2021-01-04 - From a newspaper report provided by Charles Eberline, the organ description lists the following: "The organ has two banks of keys, two octave [sic] of pedals and contains over 1400 pipes from 16 feet to 3/4 of an inch in length. There are 28 stops and combination pedals. The case is 15x14 feet and 20 feet high. There are 28 gilded pipes in front, the largest of which is ten feet long and six inches in diameter...The organ when completed is worth $5,000." From this we can derive that the facade contains [at least some] of the Great 8' Open Diapason. In Wisconsin in 1875 the action type would almost assuredly be mechanical, as tubular pneumatic actions were not being built in America at the time. The blower is described as delivering an enormous amount of wind, so is probably an error in the descritpion or translation from cubic foot rating, but whether it is a water motor or very early electric is of course not clear: "The bellows furnishes 35,000 inches of wind every second." One could guess from the number of pipes given, that with a manual compass of 58 notes and pedal compass of 27 notes [results in 1419 pipes] that the instrument was probably 25 stops. These plus 3 couplers (Swell to Great, Swell and Great to Pedal) would add up to the reported 28 registers. -Paul R. Marchesano
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