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Early American Tracker Action Pipe Organ - Image 1
1808
National Music Museum, University of South Dakota
Vermillion, United States
This single-manual American pipe organ stands 11 feet, 9 inches tall. Six original stops; three stops and pedalboard added by Thomas Dieffenbach in 1884. Polychromed case pipes painted by Thomas Dieffenbach's nephew, Jacob Dieffenbach. The Dieffenbach organ was built for Zion Lutheran and Reformed Church near Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania, for $300, and was dedicated on October 16, 1808.
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- Title: Early American Tracker Action Pipe Organ - Image 1
- Creator: Christian Dieffenbach (1769-1829), Thomas Dieffenbach, Millersburg, Pennsylvania (rebuilt organ in 1883-84) and Jacob Dieffenbach (painted polychromed case pipes)
- Date Created: 1808
- Location Created: Bethel Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania
- Type: keyboard aerophone musical instrument
- Rights: © National Music Museum
- Provenance: Ex coll.: Zion Lutheran & Reformed Church, Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania; Thomas Dieffenbach, Millersburg, Pennsylvania; Raymond Bauer; Thomas S. Eader; Daniel M. Meyer, Alexandria, Virginia
- Photo Credit: Bill Willroth, Sr.
- Credit: Acquisition Funding Gift of Arne B. & Jeanne F. Larson and J. Laiten Weed Estates, 1990
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