Organ Voicing Table
date: label: date made
content: 1978
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This voicing table organ was made by David Moore in North Pomfret, Vermont, in 1978-1979. The organ wind chest dates from an 1856 Stevens and Jewett instrument, reconstructed as demonstration action model.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>A voicing table is a windchest with a visible wind supply (foot operated in this case). These voicing tables were standard equipment in all nineteenth century American organ builders' shops. This one was made (windchest and keyboard) in Boston about 1856 in the shop of George Stevens and James Jewett, significant builders of their time.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Vermont, North Pomfret
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Organs
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.79.01
label: accession number
content: 1978.2262
label: catalog number
content: 79.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: organ
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 88 1/2 in x 77 1/4 in x 45 1/2 in; 224.79 cm x 196.215 cm x 115.57 cm