Andrew Carnegie

[davidecasteel]

I found this statement on Organ Chat today, in a post about Andrew Carnegie:

Over the course of his life, Andrew Carnegie endowed 2,811 libraries and
many charitable foundations as well as the internationally famous Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace. He also bought 7,689 organs for
churches.

The purpose of the latter gift was, in Carnegie's words,

"To lessen the pain of the sermons."

I suspect this is a fact unknown by many here.

David

[indianajo]

I'm grateful to Mr Carnegie, especially for the libraries. I first lived in a town with a Carnegie library age 30, but their ubiquity shamed a lot of cowtowns coal towns and oil towns into building a library. When 10-14 I had a six book a week habit assuaged by the local Harris county library and the baskets on my bicycle. My coal miner grandfather had to fill his need for print with dime novels (boring after the first dozen) and a set of Encyclopedia Brittanica bought from the door to door salesman in plush 1926.
Pity the organ traveler never reached any of the towns I lived in. I had to wait until FM radio was inexpensive to discover the favorites of J S Bach on classical organ. You had to listen to a sermon in Latin to hear a good organ in the towns where I grew up.

[SubBase]

I found this statement on Organ Chat today, in a post about Andrew Carnegie:
I suspect this is a fact unknown by many here.

David

I have heard that a lot of the Carnegie-donated organs were one manual reed organs, particularly Mason & Hamlins.
Casey

[SBurton]

Apparently a few Esteys as well:


Andrew Carnegie Donations for Estey Pipe Organs

(incomplete)

Opus No.


Year


Church


City


State

10


1903
Laurel Avenue Presbyterian Church Johnston PA
31 1902 Fifth Street Methodist Church Harrisburg PA
52 1903 Bridge Street Presbyterian Church Catasqua PA
53 1903 Lower Providence Presbyterian Church Eaglesville PA
66 1903 St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Columbia PA
83 1903 St. John's Reformed Church Mifflinburg PA
97 1904 First Methodist Church Media PA
133 1904 Methodist Church Bedford PA
140 1904 St. Luke's Reformed Church Trappe PA
166 1904 Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity Jersey City NJ
186 1904 Presbyterian Church Hamilton Square NJ
207 1905 Ebenezer Methodist Church West Philadelphia PA
246 1905 First Presbyterian Church Cape May City NJ
247 1905 Baptist Church New Britain PA
287 1905 Methodist Church Sayre PA
476 1907 Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church Plymouth MA
606 1908 Presbyterian Church Center Moriches PA
611 1908 Metropoplitan Temple New York NY
624 1908 Congregational Church Fulton NY
679 1909 Fulton Avenue United Bretheren Church Baltimore MD
683 1909 Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church Lakeport NH
703 1909 Meade Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church Nesquehonig PA
742 1910 Capitol Hill Methodist Episcopal Church Denver CO
882 1911 Methodist Episcopal Church Stoughton MA
959 1912 First Baptist Church Terrell TX
1003 1912 Central Baptist Church Chelmsford MA
1008 1912 First Baptist Church Randolph VT
1160 1913 First Presbyterian Church Antrim NH
1242 1914 Trinity Church of United Bretheren New Cumberland PA
1263 1914 First Congregational Church Whately MA
1279 1914 Northside Unitarian Church Pittsburgh PA

1326
1914 First Baptist Church Anoka MN

1476
1916 First Baptist Church Hope Valley RI

??
1904 Methodist Church Dauphin PA