New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-07

| onoa 1y telier) This pipe speaks two notes at
| eitbo Al Is OF the soft variety and blends with
DnIoa. nuIes or strings. Still another stop is the
hto - Inc organ has for foundation tone a
| So Sc tnrty-two foot pedal. The pipes tho
| 80 which were heard forty years ago when
| n,Iintti was at the organ and Beecher was in the
PulPlt' The wooden pipes are Of the finest
! St4ulsan pine. One pipe alone contains 1000
| TberHo t lumber and weighs about half a ton.
| &c are nearly 1000 pipes in all; the smallest
| tb, less IMAM one inch long and the longest is
tin e feet The tin pipes are of pure block
tbat ~ are very valuable, when 1t is considered
| Tbs riIe material Is worth 80 cents pound.
"a tie wind pressures of the organ vary from four
| a. nineteen inches. The instrument abounds in
! i;e1iod Ls' OF which there are more, 1t is be-
neved, than in any other single organ in this
ss. oI the country. The organ also abounds in
suit stops. Every Imaginable shade of decacy
| can be obtained. The reeds and strings through
soIo tne instrument are entirely new, as is the
| nSLt cIIuS on It's width or the number of show
p-PeS mat can be seen. This is not This
S Siedn Is deep, extending back almost to the
1rIa 60 selloo! room. There are four stories.
Inc nrst contains the blowing apparatus and the
ISyro a the electrical switchboard and the
sttaIHo Tor generating the electricity for the
St4oH. Inc third floor contains the pedal pipes,
tle great organ and the solo organ. On the
1Tua'h moor Is the swell organ of twenty stops.
Inc instrument Is valued at $4,000 and could
not De duplicated for that amount to-day.
flIteen thousand dollars was raised for the
Eep.u1talng OF the organ. The old case is valued
at $4,000, and the pipes ara other materials that
were retained are valued st 10000 One set of
pipes alone IS valued at 81 600
rms instrument is the third pipe organ that
F!yInouth church has had. The church has had
succession of we'll known organists The first was
alexander Messenger and the second was John
HondeI, author of the hymn, Love Divine. All
Love Excelling" which is known as the Beecher
hymn He and the great preacher were almost
inseparable, and in the last days when the old
organlst had become so irascibIe that the music
committee did not dare go near him, Beecher
was the only person who could do anything with
MIN he was finally sent to Europe for his
heedth at the expense Of Plymouth, and when
ne died he was one Of its pensioners. After
Iundel came Frederick Archer the great Eng
Iish organist. His successors were Eugene Thay-
er, Frank DamrOsch. Harry Rowe Shelley,
Charles H. Morse G. Warning Stebbins and Dud-
ley Buck. the composer and Scott Wheeler, the
present organist. The latter is entering on his
third year at Plymouth. He has been student
Of the organ all his life and has been abroad for
study three different times. native Of Illinois
he played in various Chicago churches for ten
years before coming to Brooklyn Here he was
Church for five years before going to Plymouth.
The programme, which has been arranged for
the cpening concert tomorrow night, Is as fol-
lows:
Allegro vvace. Allegro canabo Andanno quasi Ais
gretto. Adagto. Toccata.
In1provisationi
Ave Maria
with harp accoulpaniment)
Richard Henry Warren.
!me s"sn santsaens
S-Ief2o IN HOFFMAN
Fgue la Clique Bach
Scott Wheeler.