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Builder: Christian Dieffenbach

Position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case

Design: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards

Pedalboard Type: No Pedalboard

Features:

1 Manuals (51 Notes)✗ No Pedal1 Divisions6 Stops6 RegistersMechanical (Unknown) Key ActionMechanical Stop Action

Stop Layout: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs

Expression Type: No Enclosed Divisions

Combination Action: None

Control System: Unknown or N/A

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This instrument is: Extant and Playable in this location

Jim Stettner on November 5th, 2020: 
Updated through online information from Margaret Downie Banks, Associate Museum Dir.: Note that organ does NOT belong to the University of South Dakota; rather, it belongs to National Music Museum, Inc.

Margaret Downie Banks on November 4th, 2020: 
Gold stencilled signature on front of 1884 nameboard (same text handwritten on back of nameboard): *Built 1808, by Christ Dieffenbach, Berks Co., Pa.* / [within unfurling banner] *Rebuilt 1884, by Thos Dieffenbach Millersburg, Pa*. Single manual, tracker action, C-d3 (51 keys). Six original stops; three stops and pedalboard added by Thomas Dieffenbach in 1884. Polychromed case pipes painted by Thomas Dieffenbach's nephew, Jacob Dieffenbach. Built for Zion Lutheran and Reformed Church near Orwigsburg, Pennsyvania. Dedicated October 16, 1808.

National Music Museum catalog number:  NMM 4905

Purchase funds gift of Arne B. & Jeanne F. Larson Fund and J. Laiten Weed Estate, 1990.

Database Manager on October 30th, 2004: 
Status Note: There 1994.

Database Manager on October 30th, 2004: 
From Zion Lutheran and Reformed near Orwigsburg, PA. Rebuilt1884 by Thomas Dieffenbach.  Purchased May 1990 from Thomas S. Eader estate. Returned to original 6-stop condition. 2   manual stops and pedal stop from 1884 rebuild removed.

Webpage Links: Museum page for this instrument

Related Instrument Entries: Christian Dieffenbach (1808) , Christian Dieffenbach (1808)

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