Thomas Robjohn
1858
South Dutch Reformed Church
Fifth Avenue at West 21st Street
New York City: Manhattan, NY, US
Instrument ID: 50102 ● Builder ID: 5351 ● Location ID: 44007
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3 Manuals 4 Divisions48 StopsStop Layout: Unknown
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Database Manager on August 17th, 2012:
Updated through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -- The New music review and church music review, Volume 9, 1909 reports "Thomas Robjohn, who with his brother, William, had been with Gray & Dorison in England, began a small organ building business in New York, during the "fifties,� and built several fine organs, notably those in South Reformed Dutch Church, New York; . . . The South Reformed Church had several novel features, viz., it was the first organ in America to have an independent pedal organ of seven stops, and the first to have a pneumatic action. During the Civil War, Dr. U.C. Burnap, then organist of the church, imported from France, a Vox Humana stop for the organ, the first of the kind used in America."
Updated through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -- The New music review and church music review, Volume 9, 1909 reports "Thomas Robjohn, who with his brother, William, had been with Gray & Dorison in England, began a small organ building business in New York, during the "fifties,� and built several fine organs, notably those in South Reformed Dutch Church, New York; . . . The South Reformed Church had several novel features, viz., it was the first organ in America to have an independent pedal organ of seven stops, and the first to have a pneumatic action. During the Civil War, Dr. U.C. Burnap, then organist of the church, imported from France, a Vox Humana stop for the organ, the first of the kind used in America."
Database Manager on August 6th, 2012:
Updated through online information from T. Daniel Hancock.
Database Manager on August 2nd, 2012:
Identified through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -- The "American Musical Directory," Thomas Hutchinson, New York, 1861, reports "Size of organ (when completed)--3 banks keys, 48 stops, 2-1/2 octaves pedals. Built by T. Robjohn."
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