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This instrument is: Not ExtantandNot Playable in this location
Updated by Steven Bartley, naming this as the source of information: Washington Post 12/29/1897 pg1.
Late afternoon fire confined to the pipe organ, total loss $2,000 "The last musical number played on the organ was "There'll be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight"
Database Manager on May 23rd, 2013:
This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ.
Identified by John Speller, using information found in Advertisement in "The Biblical World," Volume 9 (1897), p. 486..
-- The advertisement lists the instrument as one of Farrand & Votey's largest installations. The building existed 1892-1940.
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