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to his wife, in 1750, remarks that he "heard very fine music in 

 the church*" (at Bethlehem), that "flutes, oboes, French horns, 

 and trumpets accompanied the organ." 



After Bromfield, the next organ-builder in New England was 

 Thomas Johnston, who built an instrument for Christ Church, 

 Boston, in 1753. He is known to have supplied the Episcopal 

 Church in Salem with another organ in 1754, containing one man- 

 ual and six stops. This pioneer maker died in ] 769. Dr. Josiah 

 Leavitt, a physician of Boston, became interested in the art 

 through intercourse with Bromfield, with the result that he sub- 

 sequently devoted himself to practical organ-building for many 

 years, with a fair measure of success. The next organ-builder in 

 New England after Johnston was Pratt, who went out of the 

 business toAvard 1800. William M. Goodrich, a native of Temple- 

 ton, Mass., born in 1777, began to build organs in Boston in 1803. 

 He was a pupil of Leavitt, and was the first native-born organ- 

 builder who achieved 

 a worthy place in 

 that noble art. Sev- 

 eral eminent makers 

 graduated from the 

 sho i of Goodrich, 

 the principal being 

 Thomas Appleton, 

 many of whose in- 

 struments are still in 

 use. Ebenezer Good- 

 rich left his brother's 

 shop and began or- 

 gan-building in 1816 

 on his own account. 

 He drifted into part- 

 nership with Thom- 

 as Appleton subse- 

 quently, but after a 

 few years they sepa- 

 rated. Thomas Mc- 

 Intyre, another early 

 Boston builder of 

 note, appeared in 

 1823. This maker also left many fine instruments behind him 

 as examples of his skill. Though Goodrich, Mclntyre, and Ap- 

 pleton accomplished much, taking into account their opportu- 

 nities, the times they labored in, and the class for which they 

 catered, the organs they built are insignificant beside more mod- 

 ern products of the Hook & Hastings, Erben, Jardine, and Roose- 



FiG. 7. — King's 



College, Cambridge, 

 Dallam, 1605-'6. 



England. Built by 



