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Lynnwood Farnam

The only known surviving recording of the playing of Lynnwood Farnam is the mechanical organ rolls which he made in 1930 at Austin Organs, Inc. of Hartford, Connecticut. The recording rolls were brought to life by installing the player mechanism at St. John's Church, West Hartford, Connecticut with registration and expression done by Clarence Watters, organist of St. John's Church. The vinyl recording was produced by Classic Editions as CE 1040.


The specially constructed pedalboard and mechanical rolls installed at the organ of St. John's Church.

The mp3 digital files below are of the same music, the larger file is better quality. "O Gott, Du frommer Gott" by J.S. Bach is approximately 9 minutes in length.

Farnam 128 kbps
[8.7 MB]
Farnam 256 kbps
[17.5 MB]
To listen to one of the above mp3s you need to "right click" and save it to your local computer.


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