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Thomas Appleton (1870)

Location:

Dutch Reformed Church
County Route 23B
Leeds, NY 12451 US
In the main sanctuary.
Organ ID: 4811

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Status and Condition:

  • This instrument's location type is: Reformed Churches (RCA, CRC, URC, PRC)
  • The organ has been relocated.
  • The organ's condition is good, used occasionally.
We received the most recent update for this instrument's status from Paul R. Marchesano on August 09, 2021.

Technical Details:

  • Chests: Slider
  • 7 ranks. 360 pipes. 1 divisions. 1 manuals. 8 stops. 7 registers.
All:
  • Chest Type(s): Slider chests
  • Position: In a gallery-level case at the rear of the room.
We received the most recent update for this division from Database Manager on April 07, 2019.
Main:
  • Manuals: 1
  • Divisions: 1
  • Stops: 8
  • Registers: 7
  • Key Action: Mechanical connection from key to chest (tracker, sticker or mix).
  • Stop Action: Mechanical connection between stop control and chest.
We received the most recent update for this console from Database Manager on April 07, 2019.
Database Manager on April 07, 2019:

Updated by T. Bradford Willis, DDS, listing this web site as a source of information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeds_Dutch_Reformed_Church.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 08, 2019.
Database Manager on May 07, 2018:
We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 07, 2019.
Database Manager on August 18, 2011:

Updated through online information from Don Daley. -- Relocated to Indiana to be set up in a private residence

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Database Manager on July 05, 2011:

Updated through on-line information from H. Elton Rouse. -- I am an interested amateur who heard this organ just last week, at the official closing of the Reformed Church in Leeds. It was my first, and only time in the church, and the organ sounded just splendid. My great-great grandfather was a member of that church, and he must have heard this instrument many times.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Database Manager on November 16, 2006:

Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- Gothic, 5-sectional case containing pipes arranged: 5-3-9-3-5. Pull-down pedalboard - no independent registers. Restored by Culver L. Mowers in 1980.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Database Manager on October 30, 2004:

Originally built in 1843. Relocated here in 1870.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Database Manager on October 30, 2004:

Built for Lansingburgh Presbyterian, Troy, NY Compass GGG, no GGG#, 58 notes/12 pedal notes.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
1980 OHS Handbook, builder ad: Open In New Tab Originally published June 1980
We received the most recent update for this stoplist from Paul R. Marchesano on August 09, 2021.

Instrument Images:

Church Exterior: Vintage Postcard, courtesy of T. Bradford Willis, DDS (1900s).

Photo of organ installation at the Dutch Reformed Church at Leeds.: Photograph from an archival source: 1980 OHS Handbook, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano. Taken approx. 1980

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