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1977-22-1.Pdf THE TRACKER THE ORGAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY Inc. P.O. Box 209, Wilmington, Ohio 45177 CONTENTS with archives at Ohio Wesleyan University Delaware, Ohio Volume 22, Number 1 Fall 1977 Alan Laufman ............................................................President P.O. Box 104, Harrtsvllle, N.H. 03450 Thomas L. Finch ,..: ........................................Vice President ARTICLES Physics Dept., st: Lawrence Univ., Canton, N.Y. 13617 Donald C. Rockwood ................................................Treasurer Paris, 1977: The International Convention of the GdO 17 50 Rockwood Road, Norfolk. Mass. 02056 by Homer Blanchard James McFarland .................................................... Secretary 114 N. George St., Millersville, Pa. 17551 Homer D. Blanchard ................................................Archivist A Tale of Two Organs 14 103 Griswold Street, Delaware, Ohio 43015 Councillors Toward a Biography of Henry Erben, p·art II 3 Lois Regestein .................................................................... 1978 by John Ogasapian 6 Worthington St., Boston, Mass. 02120 Samuel Walter .................................................................... 1978 83 School House Lane, East Brunswick, N .J. 08816 George Bozeman, Jr . ........................................................1979 DEPARTMENTS REF No. l, Deerfield, NH 03037 Thomas W. Cunningham ................................................1979 Book Review 27 421 S. South St., Wilmington. Ohio 45177 Robert C. Newton ....................... : ....................................1980 201 Tyler St., Methuen, Mass. 01844 Editorial 28 Lawrence Trupiano ............................................................ 1980 AIM-55 Mercer St., New York, N.Y. 10013 THE TRACKER staff Letters to the Editor 24 Albert F. Robinson ........................................................Editor First Presbyterian Church, 20 Klng•s Highway Ee.st Haddonfield, N.J. 08033 New Tracker Organs 25 Norma C. Cunningham ............................................Publisher 421 8. South Street. Wflmlngton, Ohio 45177 OHS BUSINESS Chairmen of Standing Committees F. Robert Roche .................................................... Advertising 60 Park Street, Taunton, Mass. 02780 Extant Organ Lists 16 Norman M. Walter ............................................Audio-Visual 25 Watervlew Rd., West Chester, Pa. 19380 Robert C. Newton ........................ Convention Coordinator OHS at ICO 16 201 Tyler St., Methuen, Mass. 01844 David and Permelia Sears ............................Extant OrgaruJ P.O. Box 61, Dunstable, Mass. 01827 COVER PHOTO-The Ferris & Stuart organ in Broad­ Thomas W. Cunningham Finance way Tabemacle, New York City (second 'building), show­ ............................................ ing ruckpositif case. Courtesy of Roche Organ Co. Alan M. Laufman .... Headquarters and Foundation Grants The Rev. Culver L. Mowers ....................Historic Organs 7 Main St., candor, N.Y. 13743 Charles Ferguson ............................International Interests Box 44, E. Vassalboro, Maine 04935 William T. VanPelt III ................................ Public Relations THE TRACKER is J,)Ublished four times a year by the Rt. 4, Box 404, Glen Allen, Va. 23060 J. Bryan Dyker ................................................Recital Series Organ Historical Society, Inc., a non-profit� educational organization. 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Closing dates for advertising matter: 4942 W. Plne 2E, St. Louis, Mo. 63108 Fall, No. 1-July 12; Winter, No. 2-September 12; The Rev. Culver L. Mowers ........................ 1980 Convention Spring, No. 3-January 12; Summer, No. 4-May 12. 7 Maln St., Candor, N.Y. 13743 Make all checks payable to the Organ Historical Society, Correspondents of the Chapters Inc. Editorial correspondence and articles to be considered Alan Laufman ........................................Boston Organ Club for publication may be add·ressed to the Editor. Editorial P.O. Box 101, Hnrrlsvute. N.H. 03450 closing dates: Fall, No. 1-July 1; Winter, No. 2-Sep­ Mary Ann Dodd ........................................ Central New York tember 1; Spring, No. 3----...Tanuary 1; Summer, No. 4- 23 Broad St., Hamilton, N.Y. 13346 May 1. Responsibility for facts and opinions expressed in Matthew Bellocchio ........................G,reater New York City articles rests upon the a.uthors and not upon the Organ RobertP.O. I.Box Thomas 106, Taunton, Mass. 02780 Greater St. Louis Historical Society, Inc. All material accepted for publica­ ........................................ 11816 Devonshire. St. Louis, Mo. 63131 tion in THE TRACKER becomes the property of the Or­ Peter N. Ziegler ................Hilbus (Washington-Baltimore) gan Historical Society, Inc., and cannot be returned. M.a­ 14300 Medwlck Ct., Upper Marlboro, Md. 20870 terial published in THE TRACKER may not be repro­ Randall McCarty ........................................Pacific Northwest duced withoi1t permission of the Editor. Copyright 1978 1622 Bellevue Ave., Seattle, Wash. 98122 The Organ Historical Society, Inc. Permelia Sears ........ Tannenb,erg (Central Pennsylvania) P.O. Box 61, Dunstable, Mass. 01827 2 Toward a Biography of Henry Erben by John Ogasapian Part II The Trinity Church Organ Henry Erben's organ of 1846 for Trinity Church Contents & general arrangement in New York has been the subject of several articles,1 (1) Of the Great Organ to be placed in the cen­ and has been carefully described by Messiter 2 and in tral compartment of the loft, immediately beneath several contemporary periodicals. It was his largest the arch supporting the tower; instrument, ,and in its time, the largest organ in the The Compass from CCC 16 ft to e 11 in alt, 65 country. As late as 1877, Erben was using the massive notes. instrument as an advertising device, describing it in 1. Open Diapason, metal, 16 ft, very large scale a letter to the Cincinnati Music Hall Association (a to G, thence gradually diminishing in scale part of the process whereby he bid on the new organ to the bottom. for that hall) as "larger in caliber and power than 2. Open Diapason, metal, 16 ft, rather smaller the Boston Music Hall organ."3 scale than the foregoing. Mem. The lowest While Erben was not at all hesitant to claim for octave of these two stops will probably be himself all credit for the instrument's innovations, required as front pipes. configuration, and conspicuous public success, the de­ 3. Stopped Diapason sign had, in fact, been developed by the organist of 4. Principal Trinity Church, Dr. Edward Hodges, who had suc­ Mem. Probably some of large scale these pipes may likewise ceeded Erben's father in the position in 1839. Hodges 5. Principal be wanted for the front. rather faithfully kept notebooks on projects in which smaller do he was engaged, preserving in them copies of perti­ 6. Twelfth nent correspondence and a virtual day-to-day record 7. Fifteenth - large of events, meetings, and even casual conversations. 8. Fifteenth - smaller His notebook on the Trinity Church organ, containing 9. Tierce (17th) Sesquialtera, with an ad­ specifications of both the original and final designs 10. Larigot (19th) ditional draw-stop to pull of the instrument, together with correspondence and 11. Twenty Second all three at once. even his personal impressions, and entitled "Mem­ 12. Twenty-second, soft oranda/ & / Copies of Documents / connected with / 13. Mixture, three ranks Mem. All the harmonic the / Proposed New Organ / for / Trinity Church / stops to break into octaves and unisons as I New York / compiled by / Edward Hodges. Mus D," they approaeh the top of the scale. is preserved in the Library of Congress.4 14. Great Trumpet, 16 ft. The book opens with Hodges' account of the initial 15. Soft Trumpet to CC 8 ft, the rest left out 11 communication and resultant specification. 16. Clarion 8 ft. On Friday, Nov. 13th 1839 Mr W H Harison com­ municated to me verbally a request from the Build­ (2) Of the Swell,- to be placed in a triple box. ing Committee of Trinity Church that I would The innermost box to ·be lined with thick rolled furnish them with a specification of an organ. paper (milled board), & the interstice between Accordingly on Wednesday, Nov. 20th I en­ the external & the middle boxes to be filled with closed to Mr J. L. Ogden, the Chairman of that shavings, cotton-wool, or other non-conductor of Committee, the following specification sound. Four doors or sets of doors to be provided for the use of the tuner, at the back or one side "Specification of an Organ of the boxes, each door lined on both sides with for milled board. The interior of the
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