Better Pipe Organ Database

Skinner Organ Co. Opus 698 (1928)

Congregational Church
Plymouth, NH

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
3 manuals
12 stops
24 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Church and organ burned 6 Sep 1983. Little of the organ salvaged. -Database Manager

2006-04-21 - Updated through information adapted from E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: Burned in 1983; replaced by two-manual Austin, #2695 in 1985. -Database Manager

2023-01-22 - From the church website (The Church's Pipe Organ). *"In 1928, this instrument [ed.: the 1854 Erben] was replaced by an Ernest M. Skinner pipe organ built in Dorchester, Massachusetts, for the church and containing 26 ranks [ed. 12 ranks] to drive 1,445 pipes [ed.: 835 pipes]. It cost $10,270 and was installed by Mr. Skinner himself with an electro-pneumatic key action; no more rods! St. Paul's School Organist Francis Snow presented the inaugural concert on October 14, 1928, introduced by church Moderator Harl Pease of Plymouth—New Hampshire's only Medal of Honor recipient ever—to a packed house. A second recital had to be held for those who couldn't get into the sanctuary.* *Following a devastating fire in the early morning hours of September 6, 1983, the Skinner was all but demolished. What hadn't burned was crushed by falling timbers. And what wasn't burned or crushed had been soaked by fire hoses. It was sold to an organ buff in California for a little less than half of its original cost and trucked out west by the late Bob Crowley of Plymouth."* -Jim Stettner

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist from the Aeolian-Skinner Archives

Plymouth, New Hampshire
Congregational Church

Skinner Organ Co., Opus 698, 1928


       GREAT and ECHO (Echo prepared for)
8'     Diapason                  61
8'     Dulciana            (Ch)  --
8'     Concert Flute       (Ch)  --
4'     Principal                 61
4'     Flute Harmonique    (Ch)  --
       Chimes              (Ch)  --
       Blank
       Blank
       Blank
       Blank

       SWELL (Expressive)
16'    Bourdon                   12
8'     Diapason                  73
8'     Chimney Flute             73
8'     Salicional                73
8'     Voix Celeste        (tc)  61
4'     Rohr Flute                12
2 2/3' Nazard                     7
2'     Piccolo                    5
8'     Trumpet                   73
       Tremolo
       Blank

       CHOIR (Expressive)
8'     Concert Flute             73
8'     Dulciana                  73
4'     Flute Harmonique          73
8'     Clarinet                  73
       Tremolo
       Chimes                   (2_)

       PEDAL
32'    Resultant                 --
16'    Contra Bass               32
16'    Bourdon             (Sw)  --
8'     Octave                    12
8'     Gedeckt             (Sw)  --
4'     Flute               (Sw)  --
       Chimes


Notes: The organ was destroyed by September 6, 1983.  A police car at
the police station next to the church was set afire and the fire spread
to the church.  A new sanctuary was built and Austin 2/21 Op. 2695 was
installed in the new building in 1985.

Websites

Opus 698: Congregational Church - (Aeolian-Skinner Archives Web Site) Specification (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)