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Ernest M. Skinner Company Opus 224 (1914)

First Presbyterian Church: Sanctuary; front
325 S. 1st Avenue
Walla Walla, WA

Images

2005 - Pedalboard, expression/crescendo shoes, and toe studs (Unknown/Shonda Gannon)

2005 - Console (Unknown/Shonda Gannon)

2005 - Plaque (Unknown/Shonda Gannon)

2008 - Inside Console; front (Unknown/Shonda Gannon)

2017 - Console interior (unknown/Shonda Gannon)

2017 - Pedal 16' Bourdon (Unknown/Shonda Gannon)

2017 - Swell 8' Cornopean pipes (Unknown/Shonda Gannon)

1912 - historical photo construction (Unknown/Shonda Gannon)

1950's - Historical Photo of exterior (Unknown/Shonda Gannon)

1969 - Historical Photo of exterior (Unknown/Shonda Gannon)

2022-03-07 - Sanctuary interior with organ in front (Church Facebook page/Jim Stettner)

Date unknown - Organ case/facade in front (Church website/Jim Stettner)

2022-01-29 - Organ facade (Church Facebook page/Jim Stettner)

2009 - Organ facade from gallery (Church Facebook page/Jim Stettner)

Unknown - Console (Unknown/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
16 stops
22 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 (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons

Notes

2005-12-21 - 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: Some tonal additions in 1955 by Balcom & Vaughan; releathered and some tonal changes by Herb Huestis in 1918; some tonal changes reversed by René Marceau; extant. -Database Manager

2006-12-01 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: From Allen Kinzey via 'The Aeolian-Skinner Archives' Date not recorded

Walla Walla, Washington
First Presbyterian Church

Ernest M. Skinner Co.   Opus 224   1914    3 manuals, 16 stops, 16 ranks
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    GREAT
8'  Open Diapason                61
8'  Second Diapason              61
8'  Gedeckt                (Sw)  --
8'  Dulciana               (Sw)  --
4'  Flute                  (Sw)  --
8'  Cornopean              (Sw)  --
    Chimes


    SWELL (Expressive)
16' Bourdon                      61
8'  Open Diapason                61
8'  Gedeckt                      61
8'  Salicional                   61
8'  Voix Celeste                 61
8'  Dulciana                     61
8'  Unda Maris             (TC)  49
4'  Flute                        61
8'  Cornopean                    61
    Tremolo


    CHOIR (Expressive)
8'  Open Diapason                61
8'  Concert Flute                61
4'  Traverse Flute               61
8'  Clarinet                     61
    Tremolo


    PEDAL
16' Bourdon                      32
16' Lieblich Gedeckt       (Sw)  --
8'  Gedeckt                      12


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2015-11-23]

Websites

Opus 224: First Presbyterian Church - [Aeolian-Skinner Archives website] (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

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