The first documented instance of the Pitman windchest , as developed by Skinner , appeared in the 1899 Hutchings - Votey organ installed at the Flatbush Reformed Dutch Church in Brooklyn , New York .
Other sources mention origins in Hutchings organs as early as 1893 .
The first documented instance of the Pitman windchest , as developed by Skinner , appeared in the 1899 Hutchings - Votey organ installed at the Flatbush Reformed Dutch Church in Brooklyn , New York , although other sources mention origins in Hutchings organs as early as 1893 .