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HISTORICAL SOCIETY SENDS PIPE ORGAN FOR RESTORATION * INSTRUMENT WAS BUILT IN 1776 BY A MORAVIAN ARTISAN IN BETHLEHEM.

Morning Call - Allentown, Pa. Author: LORNA F. WEIL (A free-lance story for The Morning Call)

Copyright Morning Call Oct 17, 1996

Special to The Morning Call

One of the oldest instruments in the Whitefield House Museum of the Moravian Historical Society -- the 1776 pipe organ -- will be sent out Nov. 10 for restoration.

Executive Director Susan Dreydoppel told historical society members attending the 139th annual meeting and Vespers in Nazareth that the organ will be returned some time in February.

The pipe organ was made by Moravian organ maker David Tannenberg, who worked in Bethlehem at one time. It will be cleaned and preserved to make it playable into the next century.

At the society's annual meeting Thursday, she also said work on the museum's third floor will begin next year now that restoration of the second-floor exhibit area is complete.

Among newly accepted acquisitions described by Emma Williams, library and museum committee chairman, were a reprint of the 1864 "Hospital, Poorhouse and Lunatick House of Northampton County;" various items relating to Nicaragua from the late Elizabeth Marx; an Advent Star lit by a kerosene lamp from the late Kate Hettasch; and a soprano trombone by G.W. Voight of Saxony, used by the Nazareth Moravian Church for 50 years.

Introduced as new members of the museum staff were Wendy L. Darrohn, administrative assistant; Jason Searock, director of volunteers; and interns Mark Turdo and Liz Nichols.

The Rev. Charles W. Eichman of Bethlehem was re-elected president of the society. Vice presidents named were the Rev. Robert F. Engelbrecht, Dr. David A. Schattschneider and the Rev. Henry L. Williams, all of Bethlehem, and Jean K. Haupt of Nazareth.

Emma Williams of Newfoundland was re-elected secretary; John F. Ziegler of Nazareth, treasurer, and Linda C. Crook of Nazareth, assistant.

Named to the board of managers were Darrell W. Crook, Berlie Dishong, John E. Halbing, Glenn Hertzog and Evelyn Huth, all of Nazareth; John W. Jacob, the Rev. J. Thomas Minor, Mrs. Rose Nehring and Lorna Weil, all of Bethlehem, and Frederick Koehler of Bath.

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