Trinity Lutheran Church - Reading, PA
1771
Trinity Lutheran Church in Reading contracted with Tannenberg for an organ at the cost of £230. The contract mentions that the organ was to have two bellows. Tannenberg apparently made rather extensive repairs to the organ in 1789 and in 1794, moved the organ to the congregation's new church building. John Christopher Moller from Zion Lutheran Church in Philadelphia came to Trinity Church with his choir and a newly composed cantata for the dedication service for the new church which took place in 1794. The music for this cantata has survived and a copy is located at the Chester County Historical Society.
In 1873, this organ was replaced and sold to the Reformed Church in Pipersville (Tinicum Township) in Bucks County where it burned along with the church in 1907.
The original stop list was:
| Manual: | |
| Principal | 8F. |
| Gedact | 8F. |
| Viola da Gamba | 8F. |
| Flauto Traver | 8F. |
| Octave | 4F. |
| Gemshorn | 4F. |
| Fifth | 3F. |
| Sub Octav | 2F. |
| Mixtur 3fach | |
| Pedal: | |
| Sub Bass | 16F. |
| Octave | 8F. |
The manual and pedal compass are unknown. Most likely, there was a Coppel Pedal.
Source for the stop list: Jacob Fry, The History of Trinity Lutheran
Church, Reading, PA, 1751-1894 (Reading: Pub. by the Congregation, 1894),
p. 46.