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Charles Viner & Son (1909)

First Methodist Episcopal Church
166 Main Street
Penn Yan, NY

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)


Images


Postmarked 1910 - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Vintage postcard, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Unknown - Chancel and Organ Case (Vintage Postcard (ca. 1908); image courtesy of William Dunklin/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main


Notes

2015-07-04 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by William Dunklin, using information found in vintage postcard. -- Postcard mailed in 1908 shows a substantial pipe organ at one side of an Akron plan room. A detached console is visible to the far left. -Database Manager

2017-11-24 - Updated by David Lenington, listing this website as a source of information: https://www.newspapers.com/image/275937667/?terms=viner%2Borgan%2Bst.%2Bmethodist%2Bpenn%2Byan -Database Manager

2022-04-03 - Transplanted note from a duplicate Database listing. **Database Manager on January 28, 2019:** This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by David Lenington, who gave this as the source of the information: Newspaper: The Chronicle Express, Penn Yan, N.Y. August 21, 1980. Organ was renovated in 1939. Replaced by new pipe organ by A. Richard Strauss. -Jim Stettner


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