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Pipe Organ Artisans (1998)

St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church: Main Sanctuary
602 North Wilmot Road
Tucson, AZ

Images

2022-08-05 - Antiphonal case in rear gallery (Photograph by Preston Miller/Preston Miller)

2022-08-05 - Console (Photograph by Preston Miller/Preston Miller)

2024-10-27 - Console (Preston Miller/Preston Miller)

2024 - Console (Church website/Preston Miller)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
3 manuals
66 stops
92 registers
5 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: Computerized/Digital
Has sequencer
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2005-06-02 - 1957 Aeolian-Skinner, Op. 1352, purchased in 1989 from the Hyde Park Community Methodist, Cincinnati, OH. Installed here in 1998. -Database Manager

2022-08-06 - Updating entry after playing the organ. This church does not have reliable heating and cooling, which causes it to sometimes have minor issues. Organ is used regularly but will be in need of rebuilding in the next few years. -Preston Miller

2022-10-20 - Original year by Aeolian-Skinner was probably 1959, may have been started in 1957. Church archives say 1959 while Aeolian-Skinner opus list says 1957. Organ installed in 1998/1999, Antiphonal added/revised in 2004/2005. -Preston Miller

2022-10-20 - Swell 8 stops are 68 note chests -Preston Miller

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist copied from the console August 5. 2022

Tucson, Arizona
St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church

Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co., Opus 1352, 1959
Pipe Organ Artisans, 1998


       GREAT
16     Quintaton
8      Principal
8      Wood Gedeckt
8      Gemshorn
4      Octave
4      Chimney Flute
2      Fifteenth
IV-VI  Plein Jeu 
8      Trompet

Great to Great 16
Unison Off
Great to Great 4


       SWELL (Expressive)
16     Contra Violone
8      Viola Pomposa
8      Viola Celeste
8      Rohrflote
4      Principal
4      Harmonic Flute
2      Octavin
II     Sesquialtera  [12-17]
III-IV Scharff  1'
16     Contre Hautbois
8      Trompette
8      Hautbois
4      Clairon
       Tremulant

Swell to Swell 16
Unison Off
Swell to Swell 4


       CHOIR (Expressive)
8      Diapason
8      Cor de Nuit
8      Flauto Dolce 
8      Flute Celeste TC
4      Principal
4      Koopflute
2 2/3  Nazard
2      Super Octave
2      Spitzflute
1 3/5  Tierce
IV     Fourniture
16     Chalmeau
8      Trompette
8      Rohr Schalmei
4      Clairon
       Tremulant
8      Trompette (from ped.)

Choir to Choir 16
Unison Off 
Choir to Choir 4


       ANTIPHONAL (floating, rocking tablets above Sw. manual)
(enclosed)
8      Wood Flute
8      Viole
8      Viole Celeste
4      Open Flute
2      Gemshorn
16     Fagotto (prep.)
8      Trumpet
       Tremulant

(exposed)
8      Principal
4      Octave
IV     Mixture
8      Tromba (prep.)


       PEDAL
32     Untersatz         (elec)  --
32     Dolce Bass    (Ch; elec)  --
16     Contre Bass
16     Violone             (Sw)  --
16     Bourdon
16     Flauto Dolce        (Ch)  --
8      Octave
8      Violone             (Sw)  --
8      Bourdon
8      Flauto Dolce        (Ch)  --
4      Choral Bass
4      Choral Flute
II     Rausch Quint  [12-15]
32     Contre Bombarde   (elec)  --
16     Bombarde
16     Hautbois            (Sw)  --
16     Chalmeau            (Ch)  --
8      Trompette
4      Clairon 
4      Rohr Schalmei       (Ch)  --


       COUPLERS
Usual divisional and manual couplers


       FINGER PISTONS
General                      1 - 15
Swell                         1 - 8
Great                         1 - 8
Choir                         1 - 8
Antiphonal                    1 - 6
Pedal 1-8 (foot)
Various coupler reversibles   (rev)
Sforzando 4                   (rev)
Set
Cancel


      TOE STUDS
General                       1 - 8
Pedal                         1 - 8
Contre Bombarde 32            (rev)
Dolce Bass 32                 (rev)
Untersatz 32                  (rev)
Swell to Pedal                (rev)
Great to Pedal                (rev)
Choir to Pedal                (rev)
blank
blank
Sforzando 1-3                 (rev)


       PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression             (bal.)
Choir Expression             (bal.)
Crescendo                    (bal.)


       NOTES
Higher row of stopkeys is for a new division with 20-some
ranks of pipes. May be antiphonal. A few ranks of pipes
have already arrived and are in storage.

Websites

St. Michael and All Angels - Music - Photographs, brief history of the instrument (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

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