Better Pipe Organ Database

Ernest M. Skinner Company Opus 263 (1916)

Residence: Ernest Tiedtke
4000 Dorr Street
Toledo, OH

Consoles

Main

3 manuals
26 stops
37 registers
3 divisions

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: Third Orchestrator; extant; unaltered; barely playable; Orchestrator rolls gone, but semi-automatic rolls extant; house and organ now owned by Angelo Licata. -Database Manager

2010-12-29 - Updated through on-line information from John Elwood. -Database Manager

2012-10-30 - Updated through online information from Lanny Hochhalter. -Database Manager

2021-11-17 - Ernest Tiedtke (1872-1950), along with his brother Charles Tiedtke, owned Tiedtke's Department Store in Toledo. It was considered by some to be "America's First Supermarket." He sold it in 1925 and wintered in the Orlando area. -Jeff Scofield

Stoplist

Source: Courtesy of Allen Kinzey from shop files

    Toledo, Ohio
    Ernest Tiedtke Residence

    Skinner   Op. 263   1917   3/26
    __________________________________________

    GREAT (*unenclosed)       SWELL
 8' Diapason       * 61   16' Bourdon       61
 8' Melodia        * 61    8' Diapason      61
 8' Cello            61    8' Clarabella    61
 8' Clarabella       SW    8' Gedeckt       61
 8' Dulciana         SW    8' Gamba         61
 4' Orchestral Flute 61    8' Gamba Celeste 61
 4' Flute            SW    8' Dulciana      61
16' Bassoon          61    8' Spitz Floete  61
 8' Trumpet          61    8' Flute Celeste 49
 8' Oboe             61    4' Flute         61
 8' English Horn     61    2' Piccolo       61
 8' Clarinet         61    8' Flugel Horn   61
 8' French Horn      61    8' Vox Humana    61
 8' Solo Vox Humana  61       Tremolo
 8' Flugel Horn      SW
    Tremolo                   PEDAL
    Piano (in room)       16' Bourdon       32
    Chimes (in Swell)     16' Gamba         32
    Harp   (in Swell)     16' Echo Lieblich SW
                           8' Octave         ?
                           8' Gedeckt       12
                           8' Cello         12
                           8' Still Gedeckt SW
                          16' Bassoon       GT
                           8' French Horn   GT

   [Received from Jeff Scofield Nov. 17, 2021]

Websites

[Archival Photograph of the residence] - Photograph (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)