Better Pipe Organ Database

Ernest M. Skinner Company Opus 226 (1914)

Second Church, Unitarian / Ruggles Baptist Church
874 Beacon Street
Boston, MA

Images

Unknown - Nave, Gallery, Organ Case, and Chamber Openings (left and right) ((ca. 1914) Vintage Postcard; image courtesy of William Dunklin/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

3 manuals
45 stops
5 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes

Notes

2005-12-21 - 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: Addition of chancel division to 1890 Geo. S. Hutchings, #202 gallery organ; subsequently removed; case remains; church now Ruggles Baptist. -Database Manager

2015-11-11 - Updated through online information from William Dunkln. -- This building was Second Church's eighth and last building, built new in 1914. In 1970 the congregation merged with First Unitarian and sold the building to Ruggles Baptist. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist Source: Lynnwood Farnam Collection, via Jonathan Bowen Date not recorded

Boston, Massachusetts
Second Church, Unitarian

The Ernest M. Skinner Co.   Opus 226   1914   3 manuals, 45 stops, 45 ranks
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The contract was for the addition of a Chancel Organ to the 1890 Geo. S.
Hutchings Op. 202 organ in the gallery. 

           GREAT ORGAN                        SWELL ORGAN
       16' Diapason                       16' Bourdon ("in two halves")
        8' Diapason                        8' Violin Diapason
        8' Doppel Flute                    8' Stopped Diapason
        8' Gamba                           8' Salicional
        4' Octave                          8' Voix Celeste
        4' Flute Harmonique                8' Quintadena
    2 2/3' Octave Quint                    8' Aeoline
        2' Super Octave                    4' Octave
      III  Mixture                         4' Flute Traverse
        8' Trumpet                         4' Fugara
                                           2' Flautino
           CHOIR ORGAN                     8' Cornopean
       16' Dulciana ("in two halves")      8' Oboe
        8' Geigen Principal                8' Vox Humana
        8' Melodia                            Tremolo
        8' Dolcissimo
        4' Flute d'Amour                      PEDAL ORGAN (30 notes)
        4' Violina                        16' Diapason (wood)
        2' Piccolo Harmonique             16' Bourdon
        8' Clarinet                       16' Lieblich Gedeckt (Chancel)
           Tremolo                         8' Flute (open)
                                           8' Violoncello
           CHANCEL ORGAN
       16' Bourdon
        8' Diapason
        8' Clarabella
        8' Erzähler
        8' Kleine Erzähler
        4' Flute
        8' Flugel Horn
           Chimes


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2017-12-09]

Websites

Opus 226: Second Church, Unitarian - (Aeolian-Skinner Archives website) Specification (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)