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Landrum tells about the history of the instrument in relation to mysterious “things that happened” that delighted him while he was rebuilding the pipe-organ.
The church’s original congregation had disbanded and the church building was taken over by a fundamentalist group. "They were going to tear it out and build a stage so they could play guitars,” Landrum says. “The organ would have gone to the dump, I guess.”
When the Swedish M.E. Church was going strong in the 1930s, the congregation, apparently in need of music for the soul, formed an organ committee to raise funds for its acquisition. Landrum turns to the church’s purchase contract with Moller Inc. and points out that most of the members of the organ committee were named Benson.
A brass plaque on the front of the organ’s casement reads that the pipe-organ was dedicated to the memory of Christine Benson. Landrum surmises that it was the fiddler that called the tune, and that the Bensons on the committee decided
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