Organ Clearing House - Rescuing Johnson Opus 638

This video was shot in 2001 documenting the Organ Clearing House as it removed a pipe organ from a soon to be demolished church in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. This historically important pipe organ made in 1885 by the Johnson & Sons Organ Company of Westfield, Massachusetts would have gone down with the building had the Organ Clearing House and the Organ Historical Society not stepped up with donations and services to rescue this work-of-art.

The William A. Johnson Organ Company of Westfield, Massachusetts, which later became Johnson & Son Organ Company, was a highly respected firm which built 860 pipe organs throughout the United States and in Canada and Bermuda. The company operated from 1844 through 1898. All Johnson organs were completely mechanical (tracker action) organs, with Barker lever tracker-pneumatic actions utilized in larger organs after 1871.

New York Times Article
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/07/ar...

For more information about the preservation of America's historic pipe organs, adopting a historic pipe organ or the producer of this mini-documentary, please visit:

http://www.OrganSociety.org
http://www.OrganClearingHouse.net
http://www.VicFerrerProductions.com

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