2023-05-28 - From York Gazette, York, PA. March 15, 1853: The church's web site tells that a new larger church building was built on the same site in 1884. It is interesting that the organ was not obtained from Henry Berger, as Bishop John Newman engaged Berger for several other organs, even while in Baltimore, during Berger's earlier time building in that town. *COMMUNICATION* I visited last Sunday, St. Immaculate Conception Church and saw and played the new organ built by Messrs. Pomplitz & Co, of Baltimore. It is built in true Byzantine style, 9 feet high, and 7 feet wide, has one manual of 4-1/2 octaves beginning in contra C, with fine ivory and ebony keys and a pedal of one octave, both of them neatly and accurately wrought, the whole showing unmistakably the hands of the master. The touch is neither too easy nor too stiff, the best organs being generally too easy a touch, the action working as promptly as can be desired, promptly enough to execute with distinctness and quick staccatos and trills in prestos. The organ consists of a principal, a dulciana, a stopt diapason bass, a stopt diapason treble, a fifteenth, and a bordun, and although I am not in favor of fifteenth and similar stops, I cannot help approving of the selection. The outer appearance of the organ is very pleasing. and decorates the church not a little; it has the color of oak and is richly gilt. The only thing to be wondered at is the low price for which it was bought Hermese, Professor of Music. -Steve Bartley
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