2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1977. -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - No pedal) - said to be first Flentrop in USA. -Database Manager
2007-10-19 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager
2016-02-12 - Updated through online information from David Poile. <br>According to a publication privately released by Flentrop Orgelbouw ca. 2003 "Flentrop in America" and in the book "Flentrop in America" by John Fesperman, this four-stop portativ was built for Dr. John Erbaugh in Chicago.<br><br>Its present location is unknown and may be Upper Darby, PA (as Flentrop Orgelbouw contends) or San Francisco, CA as the OHS database claims c. 1977, or possibly elsewhere. It is not, however, the first Flentrop organ in North America. That distinction goes to a two-manual, twelve-stop (with electric-action pedal) organ built in 1939 for the World's Fair in New York City.<br><br> This visit did not go well for Dirk Flentrop or the organ (Flentrop was mostly not permitted to assemble the organ at the Fair because of interference by various unions--instead, he was assigned plumbers to assemble, voice and tune it because the instrument had "pipes"). After the World's Fair, Flentrop took the organ back home and installed it in the Nieuw Apostolische Kerk (or Kiefhoekskerk)in Rotterdam where the instrument remains today.<br><br>The second Flentrop organ in North America is the one-manual, four-stop positiv for University Presbyterian Church in San Antonio, TX built in 1954 under the recommendations of Donald Willing. -Database Manager
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