REPOPcT 



Of the Committee on Trinity Church Or<ran. 



We, the undersigned, committee appointed to inspect the new or- 

 gan erected in Trinity Church, by Mr. H. Erben, of the city of New- 

 York, beg to report : 



The duty of the committee has been a most agreeable one, and 

 they have to congratulate the inhabitants of New-York on possess- 

 ing such a splendid specimen of the mechanical arts, and an instru- 

 ment of such purity of tone. 



The great organ stops are individually of great beauty and excel- 

 lence, the quality of the diapasons in particular, (which are the most 

 difficult stops to voice in the whole instrument,) are equal to any 

 European organ that your committee are acquainted with, and supe- 

 rior to any in this country that has yet come under our notice. But 

 a want of judgment is evident, in the amount of mixture stops, viz: 

 in the preponderance of the four rank furniture stops, which gives a 

 screaming effect to the full organ, which, was it not for the power of 

 tone of the diapasons, would be entirely spoiled. This, a fault not 

 belonging in particular to this instrument, but existing more or less 

 in most modern organs, and your committee cannot leave this subject 

 "without recommending that great care ought to be taken not to de- 

 stroy the beauty of the pure tone for the sake of a mere noise. 



The choir organ is in all respects most excellent, every note clear, 

 beautifully voiced, and the clarionet and bassoon, without exception, 

 the best we hav/ ever heard. 



The swell is in every way admirable, each stop individually ex- 

 cellent, and the effect of the full swell, grand and imposing in the 

 extreme, and the double dulciana bass balances the light stops well. 



