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ARCHITECT EXTOLS STUART the Invention Consists in Providing an Additional Reservoir of by Wihiam L OHS members may join as many chapters as they wish. Several chap­ ters publish excellent newsletters with significant scholarly content. Chapter and Newsletter, Editor, Membership Founding Date and Annual Address (*Date joined OHS) Membership Boston Organ Club, Newsletter, E.A. Alan Laufman !lox 104, Harrisville, NH 1965, 1976* Boadway, $5 03450 Vax Humana, Douglas H Adams British Columbia, 4023 Cavallin Ct. 198 3 Clayton Lee, $1 0 Victoria, BC V8N 5P9 Canada Central New York, The Coupler, $5 Culver Mowers 2371 Slatervi lie Rd , Box 1976 130 Brooktondale, NY 14817 Chicago Midwest, The Stopt Diapason, Julie Stephens 520 W, 47th St., Western 198 0 Susan R. Friesen, $8 Springs, IL 60558 Eastern Iowa, 198 2 Newsletter, Au1ust Knoll Mark Nemmers, $7 .50 t:d��. IA 52255 Greater New York The Keraulophon, Alan Laufman (as The Organ Historical Society City, 1969 John Ogasapian , $5 above) Greater St. Louis, The Cypher, Eliza- John D. Phillippe Box 26811, Richmond, Virginia 23261 197 5 b eth S Ch mt· tt ' $5 4336 DuPage Dr. (804) 353-9226 Bridgeton, MO 63044 Archives Collection at Westminster Choir College, Hilbus (Washington• Where the Tracker Peter Ziegler Baltimore), 197 0 Action ls, Carolyn 14300 Medw,ck Ct,, Princeton, New Jersey Upper Marlboro, MD Fix, $4 20870 Mid-Hudson (New The Whistlebox, June Marvel The National Council Crown Hill Rd. York), 1978 Robert Guenther, $5 Wappingers Falls. NY Officers 12590 Dana Hull .... ......................................... President 1407 East Stadium, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 New Orleans, 198 3 The Swell Shoe, Gage Michael Christiansen UNO Box 1378 Richard F. Jones .................................. Vice President McMahon, $5 New Orleans, LA 70148 Mechanics Hall, 321 Main St., Worcester. 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Responsibility for facts and opinionsTHE Julie Stephens , ............... , ....., ...., , ..... Biggs Fellowship expressedTRACKER in articles rests upon the authors and not upon the Organ 520 West 47th St., Western Springs, IL 60558 Historical Society, Inc. All material acceptedTHE for TRACKER publication in Alan M. Laufman, acting chair ....... , ....Development Committee becomes the property of the Organ Historical Society, Inc . and P.O. Box 104, Harrisville, NH 03450 cannot be returned. Material published in may not be Culver L. Mowers ., .. , ............ , ....... ,...... Historic Organs 2371 Slaterville Rd., Box 130, Brooktondale, NY 14817 reproduced without permission of the Editor. Charles Ferguson ........., ............. , ..International Interests THE ORGAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY is not beholden to any com· Box 44, E. Vassalboro, ME 04935 mercial interest. There is no intention to discredit or recommend anyllr Earl Miller ............................. , .......... Recital Series existing organ manufactory tor concern. No such information inferred Christ Church, 25 Central St., Andover, MA 01810 construed in any form may be used inTHE a.dve1-tisingor TRACKER, for an commercial John K. Ogasapian ............................. : ........Research will all s any 14 Park St,, Pepperell MA 01463 purpose. The Society akeTHE TRACKERteps to prevent or prosecute Rachelen Lien ........................................Nominating such use of its material, the name or the name THE 1010 Nashville Ave., New Orleans, LA 70115 ORGAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY. is a registered trademark. Copyright 1986 The Organ Historical Society, Inc. ISSN 0041-0330. Volume 30, Number 1, 1986 The oldest large, three-manual, essentially intact organ in the United States is the 1847 Richard M. Ferris built for Calvary Church in New York and moved to Round Lake, near Albany, THE TRACI<ER New York, in 1888. The organ is heard in a series of concerts JOURNAL OF THE ORGAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY every summer, and is the subject of an article that begins on ARTICLES page 44. The Ferrises and the Stuarts .....................................................15 A Biographical Survey of This Family's Instrument Making in Nineteenth Century New York, by Stephen Pinel The Organs of Plantsville Congregational Church in Connecticut ..•.. �-.............••.26 Architect}. Cleaveland Cady Recommends L. U. Stuart, But E. & G. G. Hook & Hastings Builds the Organ, by William Degan and Gail Andrews A Documented List of Ferris & Stuart Organs, 1845-1876.....•.............•....... 36 Stephen Pinel Compiles Notations on 194 Organs A Documented History of the Round Lake Auditorium Organ .•••••............••....44 The Oldest, Large Three-Manual, Essentially Unaltered Organ in the United States, by Stephen Pinel DEPARTMENTS Letters to the Editor . 4 Reviews. 6 Organ Update. 9 Archivist's Report ..............................................................12 Pipedreams Schedule ............................................................5 6 Thirty Years Old! GUEST EDITORIAL OT MANY HEADS WERE TURNED when during It is impossible to include in this brief essay the names the AGO National Convention at New York City in and contributions of all whose efforts have brought the N1956, an announcement was posted that a meeting OHS to its present level of achievement. But we must not would be held at the choir room of St. Bartholomew's overlook the fact that the organ world has been greatly Church to which anyone interested in the preservation of benefitted and studies advanced through the work of our old organs was invited. The notice had been placed by Society. Though since 1956 we have witnessed the demise Barbara Owen, and it was nine of her friends who actually of some great organ building firms (Aeolian-Skinner for met with her for the meeting. one), there are now many new builders who devote them­ In those days, the electronic thrust was very strong. selves to producing mechanical-action organs over a broad Many new types of substitutes for organs were on the landscape. And now, in a surprising number of instances, market and the sales pitch was "out with the old-in with tlie "artificial organ" trend has reversed itself and we find the new." As a result, hundreds of historically important pipe
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