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Updated by J. A. Hefner, listing this website as a source of information: https://books.google.com/books?id=xJNCAQAAMAAJ
Updated by J. A. Hefner, listing this website as a source of information: https://books.google.com/books?id=xJNCAQAAMAAJ
Musical Courier, volume 40 (1900) states that William C. Carl (his second performance at the college) was to dedicate the instrument on Wednesday, 16 May 1900.
ABF opus 701 was to be one of the largest in Ohio at the time.
Carl's first performance at the college was 16 March 1898 in Memorial Hall; at the time he was the country's leading organist.
Updated by J. A. Hefner, listing conversations with this person as the source of the information: Aaron M. Tellers (Tellers Organ Co.).
According to Aaron M. Tellers, this is ABF Opus 701 from 1899. On a tangential note, ABF's daughter Olive graduated from Lake Erie College.
This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ.
Identified by J. A. Hefner, listing this website as a source of information: https://www.lec.edu/Content/uploads/Alumni-Magazine-Spring-2011.pdf.
Mentioned in an alumni newsletter, this organ is visible in a promotional postcard commissioned by A. B. Felgemaker Co., ca. 1908 [the same series as the Erie Central Presbyterian organ postcard]. Memorial Hall was constructed in 1890, and this organ was installed in the auditorium/chapel at some point thereafter.
According to the newsletter, this organ was one of many items destroyed in a fire that consumed Memorial Hall, early morning on 13 April 1957.
There is only one part of the organ known to survive: a wooden pipe, which alumnus Donna (Elslager) Davis -60 purchased at National Alumni Board auction, then returned to the college at Alumni Weekend 2010.
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