Pipe Organ Database

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Henry Erben (1838)

Location:

National Music Museum, University of South Dakota
414 E. Clark
Vermillion, SD 57069 US
Organ ID: 66592

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Status and Condition:

  • This instrument's location type is: Museums
  • The organ has an unknown or unreported status.
  • The organ's condition is unknown.
We received the most recent update for this instrument's status from Jim Stettner on November 06, 2020.

Technical Details:

  • Chests: Slider
Manual:
  • Chest Type(s): Slider chests
  • Built by Henry Erben
We received the most recent update for this division from Jim Stettner on November 06, 2020.
Jim Stettner on November 07, 2020:

Updated through online information from Margaret Banks, National Music Museum Assoc. Director. -- The organ was previously at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (MMA accession 1990.331) and deaccessioned in 2007 and passed along to the National Music Museum as a gift in 2007/2008.

The organ is in a disassembled state. Our previous conservator planned to have it restored before he retired and started on that project, but unfortunately, he never finished it, so it is in our Center for Preservation and Research now, where it can be accessible for research purposes.

We received the most recent update for this note from Jim Stettner on November 07, 2020.
Jim Stettner on November 06, 2020:

Identified via email from Margaret Downie Banks, Assoc. Museum Dir. on November 4, 2020.

We received the most recent update for this note from Jim Stettner on November 06, 2020.
Henry Erben, 1838 - Description: Open In New Tab History of organ, description of features, specification, notes
Document created on 2020-11-07
We received the most recent update for this document from Jim Stettner on November 07, 2020.

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