Better Pipe Organ Database

Ernest M. Skinner Company Opus 125 (1905)

Columbia University: St. Paul's Chapel
1660 Amsterdam Ave. at 117th St.
New York City: Manhattan, NY

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

Images

Unknown - Chapel Interior (Photograph from the NYC AGO Organ Project/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
4 manuals
49 stops
67 registers
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
Has crescendo
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2005-11-13 - Identified 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: Console rebuilt with new remote combination action plus some tonal regulation and releathering in 1928, #125-A; replaced by #985. -Database Manager

Stoplist

From Factory Specifications, via Larry Trupiano Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

New York City, New York
Columbia University - St. Paul's Chapel

The Ernest M. Skinner Co.   Opus 125   1905   4 manuals, 49 stops, 51 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN (6" wind)                  SWELL ORGAN (6" wind)
     16' Diapason            61             16' Bourdon             61
      8' 1st Diapason        61              8' 1st Diapason        61
      8' 2nd Diapason        61              8' 2nd Diapason        61
      8' Gross Floete        SW              8' Gross Floete        61
      8' Gamba               61              8' Salicional          61
      8' Erzähler            61              8' Voix Celeste        61
      8' Gedackt             SW              8' Spitz Floete        61
      4' Octave              61              8' Gedackt             61
      4' Flute               61              8' Aeoline             61
      2' Fifteenth           61              4' Flute               61
     16' Trumpet             SW              4' Octave              61
      8' Trumpet (10")       61              2' Flautino            61
      4' Clarion             SW                 Cornet III         183
                                            16' Trumpet             61
         CHOIR ORGAN (6" wind)               8' Cornopean           61
     16' Dulciana            61              8' Oboe                61
      8' Diapason            61              8' Vox Humana          61
      8' Concert Flute       61              4' Clarion             61
      8' Quintadena          61                 Tremolo
      8' Dulciana            61
      8' Unda Maris (TC)     49                 PEDAL ORGAN (10" wind)
      8' Dulcet II          110             64' Gravissima          --
      4' Flauto Traverso     61             32' Diapason            32
      2' Piccolo             61             16' Diapason            32
     16' Fagotto             61             16' Violone             32
      8' Clarinet            61             16' Bourdon             32
      8' Orchestral Oboe     61             16' Dulciana            CH
         Tremolo                            16' Gedackt             SW
                                        10 2/3' Quinte (Bourdon)    --
         SOLO ORGAN (10" wind)               8' Flute (Diapason)    12
      8' Stentorphone        61              8' Gedackt (Bourdon)   12
      8' Philomela           61              8' Cello               SW
      8' Concert Flute       CH              4' Flute               12
      8' Dulciana            CH             16' Trombone            32
      8' Unda Maris          CH              8' Tromba              12
      8' Dulcet II           CH
      4' Flute               61
     16' Fagotto             CH
      8' Tuba (15")          61
      8' Oboe                CH


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2015-01-16]

Documents

(1905-01-01) Organ in St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University Description, photograph, stoplist -Database Manager
(1905-06-05) Factory specifications and Memorandum of Agreement Stoplist, contract details, and handwritten annotations -Database Manager

Websites

Opus 125: Columbia University - St. Paul's Chapel - (Aeolian-Skinner Archives website) Stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)