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November 13

Need Help Finding a Article

I think that I previously read an article back from 2008 which talked about how one woman and previously, this woman's mother, continuously played music on some instrument (maybe a piano; I don't remember exactly) at their church for 120 years (from 1888 to 2008; I think that this woman's mother was a child back in 1888 when she began playing music on this instrument).

Can someone here please see if he or she can find this article? I seriously hope that I remembered the information which was written in this article correctly, but I probably read it so long ago that I can't be 100% sure in regards to this.

Thank you very much.

talk) 08:26, 13 November 2014 (UTC)[reply

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Try searching Wikipedia with those key words: piano, church, 1888 etc. maybe something will pop up. Uhlan ^talk 08:55, 13 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

My thought exactly. So I tried various combinations of church, mother, daughter, piano, organ, 1888, 2008, "120 years", and "very remarkable". I got nothing. "Music" is one of the things listed for the Entertainment Reference Desk (go figure), so you might try there instead—and I doubt that would be considered cross-posting since I suggested it. ‑‑Mandruss ☎ 09:04, 13 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like it is Old First Church in Middletown Township, New Jersey. Evelyn Hartmann and her mother Sarah Starke played the organ between 1888 and 2008.[1][2] Still looking for your article. Hack (talk) 09:11, 13 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nice work, Hack. If there's no Wikipedia article, there should be. Far less notable things than that have made it in, and stayed in. The requisite RS support should be a piece of cake. ‑‑Mandruss ☎ 09:16, 13 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There is a mention of that Old First Church in Upper Meeting House of the Baptist Church of Middletown, however it is a different church from the subject of the article. ‑‑Mandruss ☎ 09:28, 13 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Don't have access but there is a journal article on the church - Scharfenberger, Gerald; Baugher, Sherene (2007). "The Separation of Church and Site: Old First Church, Middletown, New Jersey". Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology. 23: 35–60. Hack (talk) 12:33, 13 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]