ERBEN RENEWAL
Erben Renewal is the preservation program
of this 1868 Henry Erben pipe organ.
It roars louder than the lion of the desert, and it can draw out a thread of sound as fine as the locust spins at hot noon on his still tree-top. It imitates all instruments; it cheats the listener with the sound of singing choirs; it strives for a little purer note than can be strained from human throats, and emulates the host of heaven with its unearthly "voice of angels." Within its breast all the passions of humanity seem to reign in turn. It moans with the dull ache of grief, and cries with the sudden thrill of pain; it sighs, it shouts, it exults, it wails, it pleads, it trembles, it shudders, it threatens, it storms, it rages, it is soothed, it slumbers.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes