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Organs in danger => Organs in danger => Topic started by: KB7DQH on June 01, 2014, 06:51:55 AM

Title: Instrument featured at an Organ Historical Society Convention ...
Post by: KB7DQH on June 01, 2014, 06:51:55 AM
Is now in a building about to be destroyed. :( >:( :'(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP-C6jAujyQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP-C6jAujyQ)

I became aware of this via a "like" on Facebook from one of our members...

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John Panning
6 hrs · Lake City, IA ·

If you or your church have ever wanted to own an unaltered example of the work of one of America's finest German immigrant organ builders, now is the time to act. Historic St. Mary's Church in Muscatine, Iowa, will be demolished this summer and a new home is being sought for its 1877 J.G. Pfeffer & Son organ. Here is the stoplist, taken from the OHS Database entry http://database.organsociety.org/SingleOrganDetails.php?OrganID=1203

GREAT - unenclosed, 54 notes (knobs each labeled 1M)
8' Principal
8' Melodia
8' Gamba
4' Octave
4' Flote
2-2/3' Quinte
2' Octave
Mixtur 3 fach
Manual Coppel

SWELL - enclosed and expressive, 54 notes (knobs each labeled 2M)
16' Bourdon Bass
16' Bourdon Discant
8' Principal
8' Gedackt
8' Salicional
4' Flote
2' Flautino

PEDAL - unenclosed, 25 notes
16' Sub-Bass
8' Octave Bass
1M Pedal Coppel
2M Pedal Coppel

http://muscatinejournal.com/news/local/for-everything-there-is-a-season--year-old-st/article_6a6d1ecf-8583-5abf-98f5-e3f2e84d4c1e.html

Eric
KB7DQH