Better Pipe Organ Database

Ernest M. Skinner Company Opus 204 (1913)

Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, Episcopal: Synod House
1047 Amsterdam Ave.
New York City: Manhattan, NY

Note: Not playable. (in this location)

Images

Unknown - Synod House interior (Photograph from the NYC AGO Organ Project/Database Manager)

2002-09-09 - Synod House exterior (Photograph by Steven E. Lawson/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
22 stops
32 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
Has crescendo
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2005-12-20 - 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: Extant; unaltered -Database Manager

2011-01-21 - Updated through online information from Connor Annable. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Specification from New York City Chapter AGO web site Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

New York City, New York
Cathedral of St. John the Divine - Synod House

Ernest M. Skinner Co.   Opus 204   1913      3 manuals, 32 stops, 22 ranks
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        GREAT ORGAN                            SWELL ORGAN
    16' Bourdon             61             16' Bourdon             61
     8' Diapason            61              8' Diapason            61
     8' Philomela           61              8' Gedackt             61
     8' Erzähler            61              8' Salicional          61
     8' Gedackt             SW              8' Voix Celestes       61
     8' Dulciana (Aeoline)  SW              8' Aeoline             61
     4' Flute               SW              8' Unda Maris (TC)     49
     8' Cornopean           SW              4' Octave              61
                                            4' Flute               61
        CHOIR ORGAN                         2' Flautino            61
     8' Diapason            61             16' Contra Posaune      61
     8' Concert Flute       61              8' Cornopean           61
     4' Flute               61              8' Oboe                61
     8' Clarinet            61              8' Vox Humana          61
        Tremolo                                Tremolo

        PEDAL ORGAN                            COUPLERS
    16' Diapason (ext GT)   12 a               Great to Pedal       8
    16' First Bourdon       GT                 Swell to Pedal       8  4
    16' Second Bourdon      SW                 Choir to Pedal       8
     8' Octave              GT a               Swell to Great   16  8  4
     8' Gedackt             GT b               Choir to Great   16  8  4
    16' Posaune             SW                 Swell to Choir       8
                                               Swell to Swell   16     4
     a  from Philomela                         Choir to Choir   16     4
     b  from Bourdon

        MECHANICALS                            ADJUSTABLE COMBINATIONS
        Balanced Swell Pedal                   Great  1-2-3-4   (thumb)
        Balanced Choir Pedal                   Swell  1-2-3-4   (thumb)
        Register Crescendo Pedal               Choir  1-2-3-4   (thumb)
        Great to Pedal Reversible (toe)        Pedal  1-2-3-4   (toe)
        Sforzando (toe, hook-down)             General Cancel   (thumb)
                                               Set              (thumb)
                                               Ped. to Man. Combs. On/Off
                                                 for Great, Swell & Choir


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2015-08-17]