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The Aeolian Co. Opus 1347 (1916)

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

Images

c.1916 - Music room and facade (Photograph from an archival source: OHS Archives, submitted by Jim Lewis/Jim Lewis)

Unknown - Exterior of home (Photograph from an archival source: Detroit Public Library, via William M. Worden, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

• 3 manuals
• 6 divisions

Notes

2022-06-21 - As Op. 919, ten new ranks plus Harp (replacing the Campanetta) and Chimes added in 1912; rebuilt and enlarged in 1916 to 3/46 as Op. 1347; 4 additional ranks added in 1927; relocated in 1947 to First Baptist Church, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, by Herbert Leadbitter of Detroit. Truman Handy Newberry (1864-1945) was the son of John S. Newberry and brother to Helen Newberry. Truman was an industrialist who was one of the organizers of the Packard Motor Co.; he served as Asst. Secretary of the Navy 1905-1908; he was a US Senator from 1919-22, though eventually resigning due to questions about his election funds. -Jeff Scofield

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

• #65274 - The Aeolian Co. Opus 919 (1903)
• #68600 - Herbert Leadbitter (1947)

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