In 1895, the water motors were replaced by two DC electric motors. Johnson added pneumatic levers to lighten the touch and employed a water-powered system to supply the wind. At that time, the organ was enlarged to include four manuals, 57 stops, and 2,648 pipes. The Ridges family, along with the organ and some 120 additional Mormon emigrants, made the two-and-a-half-month voyage to California aboard the ship Jenny Ford. After spending the winter in California, the family and the organ traveled overland by wagon train to Salt Lake City, itself a nearly two-months-long journey.įurther expansion of the Tabernacle organ was undertaken in 1885 under the supervision of Niels Johnson. One account mentions that the organ contained seven stops, and another speaks of “two soft rich diapason stops.” The organ was dismantled and packed in moisture-resistant cases (perhaps tin-lined wooden crates) “some of them as long as a wagon,” according to Ridges. Limited information exists concerning the organ that Ridges built in Australia. Leaving Australia in 1856, they finally reached the Salt Lake Valley in June of the following year. Following his conversion to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1853, Ridges and his family chose to join the main body of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City. However, it was not until he had immigrated to Sydney, Australia that Ridges actually attempted his first instrument, among the earliest organs to have been built in that country. He appears to have gained his knowledge of the instrument through frequent visits to an organ factory near his London home, by observing and talking with the workers there, and by carefully studying instruments in the factory as well as in local churches. As far as can be determined, he never formally apprenticed in the organ trade. An English carpenter and cabinetmaker, Ridges had a lifelong fascination with organs. We can ship anywhere and have the best prices on used Hammond organs and Leslie speakers.The history of the organ in the Salt Lake Tabernacle begins with Joseph H. Richmond, V.A., New Orleans, Memphis, T.N., Savanah,G.A. Roanoke, V.A., Danville, V.A., Martinsville, V.A.
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