PICCOLO L’Organo Series | French Huguenot Church
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THE FRENCH PROTESTANT (HUGUENOT) CHURCH in Charleston was built in 1687 following the arrival of 45 French Protestants aboard the ship ‘Richmond’ this magnificent Gothic Revival style church was then erected on the corner of Church and Queen Streets in historic Charleston SC.
“When the building was completed in 1845, the church also purchased and installed a tracker organ carved in the style and shape of a Gothic chapel.
Its keys are connected with the pipe valves by a wooden “tracker’ or mechanical linkage which responds to the organists touch faster than any modern mechanism allows. Its tone is similar to the Baroque organs for which Bach and Handel composed.
It was built by the leading American organ builder of the first half of the nineteenth century, Henry Erben.
After the fall of Charleston in 1865, federal soldiers dismantled the organ and were loading it on a New York bound ship when the pleas of the organist, Mr. T.P. O’Neale, and some influential friends saved it.”
Please take a moment to read then visit the magnificent community. https://www.huguenot-church.org/history.html)
Read MoreTHE FRENCH PROTESTANT (HUGUENOT) CHURCH in Charleston was built in 1687 following the arrival of 45 French Protestants aboard the ship ‘Richmond’ this magnificent Gothic Revival style church was then erected on the corner of Church and Queen Streets in historic Charleston SC.
“When the building was completed in 1845, the church also purchased and installed a tracker organ carved in the style and shape of a Gothic chapel.
Its keys are connected with the pipe valves by a wooden “tracker’ or mechanical linkage which responds to the organists touch faster than any modern mechanism allows. Its tone is similar to the Baroque organs for which Bach and Handel composed.
It was built by the leading American organ builder of the first half of the nineteenth century, Henry Erben.
After the fall of Charleston in 1865, federal soldiers dismantled the organ and were loading it on a New York bound ship when the pleas of the organist, Mr. T.P. O’Neale, and some influential friends saved it.”
Please take a moment to read then visit the magnificent community. https://www.huguenot-church.org/history.html)
