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 to his wife, in 1750, remarks that he "heard very fine music in the church" (at Bethlehem), that "flutes, oboes, French horns, and trumpets accompanied the organ."

After Bromfield, the next organ-builder in New England was Thomas Johnston, who built an instrument for Christ Church, Boston, in 1753. He is known to have supplied the Episcopal Church in Salem with another organ in 1754, containing one manual and six stops. This pioneer maker died in ] 769. Dr. Josiah Leavitt, a physician of Boston, became interested in the art through intercourse with Bromfield, with the result that he subsequently devoted himself to practical organ-building for many years, with a fair measure of success. The next organ-builder in New England after Johnston was Pratt, who went out of the business toward 1800. William M. Goodrich, a native of Templeton, Mass., born in 1777, began to build organs in Boston in 1803. He was a pupil of Leavitt, and was the first native-born organ-builder who achieved a worthy place in that noble art. Several eminent makers graduated from the shop of Goodrich, the principal being Thomas Appleton, many of whose instruments are still in use. Ebenezer Goodrich left his brother's shop and began organ-building in 1816 on his own account. He drifted into partnership with Thomas Appleton subsequently, but after a few years they separated. Thomas McIntyre, another early Boston builder of note, appeared in 1823. This maker also left many fine instruments behind him as examples of his skill. Though Goodrich, Mclntyre, and Appleton accomplished much, taking into account their opportunities, the times they labored in, and the class for which they catered, the organs they built are insignificant beside more modern products of the Hook & Hastings, Erben, Jardine, and