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Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. Opus 262-A (1950)

First Presbyterian Church
Duluth, MN

Images

Unknown - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: perfectduluthday.com, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

ca.2016 - Church interior, pipe façade and console (Photograph from an archival source: duluthnewstribune.com, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2017-07-23 - Organ Case and Facade Pipes (Photograph by Doug Knabe/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

3 manuals
38 stops
29 registers

Notes

2005-12-25 - 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: Tonal replacements, additions and releathering of E. M. Skinner Opus 262 (1916). -Database Manager

2021-11-17 - After peaking at around 2,000 members in the 1950's, the church had around 100 members in 2016; an 3-manual Austin stopkey console was added in 1974. -Jeff Scofield

Stoplist

Source: Courtesy of Allen Kinzey from shop files

       Duluth, Minnesota
       First Presbyterian Church

       Skinner           Op. 262     1917   3/25
       Aeolian-Skinner   Op. 262-A   1950   3/29
       ______________________________________________

       GREAT                         SWELL
    8' Diapason         61 *     16' Bourdon       61
    8' Flute Couverte   61 *      8' Diapason      61
    8' Gemshorn         61 *      8' Gedeckt       61
    8' Gedeckt          SW        8' Salicional    61
    8' Dulciana         SW        8' Voix Celestes 61
    4' Octave           61 *      8' Spitz Flute   61
    4' Flute Harmonique 61 *      8' Flute Celeste 49
    4' Flute            SW        4' Flute         61
2 2/3' Twelfth          61 *      2' Flautino      61
    2' Fifteenth        61 *     16' English Horn  61
    8' Cornopean        SW        8' Cornopean     61
                                  8' Flugel Horn   61
       PEDAL                      8' Vox Humana    61
   16' Diapason         32           Tremolo
   16' 1st Bourdon      32
   16' 2nd Bourdon      SW           CHOIR
    8' Octave           32 *      8' Diapason      61
    8' Gedeckt          12        8' Concert Flute 61
    8' Still Gedeckt    SW        4' Flute         61
    4' Choral Bass      32 *  2 2/3' Nazard        61
   16' English Horn     SW        8' Clarinet      61
                                     Tremolo
                                     Celesta
    *  new                           Celesta Sub

       [Received from Jeff Scofield November 17, 2021]

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