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Description and stoplist found in Ritter's history of the Moravian Church in Philadelphia (1857). The new church, completed in 1856, contained 80 pews without doors to seat 500 comfortably.
"The organ gallery in front, at the east end of the chamber, has an elevation of nine feet, and in architectural design corresponds in fashion with the protective screen of the pulpit's platform."
"The gallery supports an organ of dignity, character, and corresponding architecture, designed under the direction of your author, and executed by Mr. Edmund Durang as architect, and Mr. J.C.B. Standbridge, whose skill, taste, and judgement is very creditably exemplified in its organic details.
"Its outer dimensions are eighteen feet front, eight feet in depth, and twenty-nine feet to the top of the centre tower.
"Its disposition follows:"
-- Stoplist printed --
The organ cost $2000. The front pipes were gilt and the case was grained by Wooldridge. The description includes additional prose about silky tone and beauty of the stops.
Rebuilt Haskell 1896.
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