The newspaper announcement of a Johnson & Son organ, installed by Charles Viner who at that time was a Johnson employee, adds a hitherto unknown instrument to the published Johnson opus list, without an opus number. This would appear to be a completely new and standard Johnson instrument which on paper would appear to have recycled little to nothing of the G-compass Erben. Since all traces of the antique instrument vanished when this venerable organ were replaced in 2019, there is no material left to make a determination whether this was a completely new organ in 1886, or recycled some of the older Erben material.

Updated by Stephen Rose, who has heard or played the organ. -- New information was discovered via "The Dansville Express" from December 2, 1886. Please see the Documents section of this listing.

Identified by Stephen Rose, who has heard or played the organ. -- This entry describes the rebuild and re-installation in 1886 of an existing 1847 organ.