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Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. (1939)

St. Alban's Episcopal Church
105 S. Erie Street
Bay City, MI

Images

2022-11-27 - One of the two facades (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Date unknown - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Parish website, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Unknown - Console ((2014) Photograph by Gary Poindexter/Database Manager)

Unknown - Pipe Facade ((2014) Photograph by Gary Poindexter/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
3 manuals
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons

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: E. M. Skinner Opus 266 (1916), relocated. -Database Manager

2006-01-09 - The organ was originally built in 1916 for St. Paul-s Episcopal Church in Flint, Michigan. St. Paul-s sold the instrument to St. Alban-s in 1939 for $500.00. This purchase did not include the Echo division, pedal Trombone stop, or the casework. The Aeolian-Skinner Company moved the organ and constructed new casework. In the years since the organ was moved, the Choir Clarinet stop has been replaced by a 2- Flute and one of the 8- swell reeds has been replaced by a 4- reed. -Database Manager

2007-02-28 - Updated through online information from Gary Poindexter. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Original document from Joe Granger. Source: Console, contract 2018-01-11

Bay City, Michigan
St. Alban's Episcopal Church

The Ernest M. Skinner Co., Opus 266, 1916
Aeolian-Skinner, 1939 - Moving & Installation


    GREAT
16' Bourdon               (Ped)  17 a
8'  1st Diapason                 73
8'  2nd Diapason                 73
8'  Philomela             (Ped)  29 b
8'  Gamba                        73
8'  Gedeckt                (Sw)  --
8'  Spitz Flute            (Sw)  --
4'  Flute                  (Sw)  --
8'  Cornopean              (Sw)  --
8'  Tuba                         73

    SWELL (Expressive)
16' Bourdon                      73
8'  Diapason                     73
8'  Gedeckt                      73
8'  Salicional                   73
8'  Voix Celestes                73
8'  Spitz Flute                  73
8'  Flute Celeste          (tc)  61
4'  Flute                        73
8'  Cornopean                    73
8'  Oboe                         73
8'  Vox Humana                   73
    Tremolo

    CHOIR (Expressive)
8'  Diapason                     61
8'  Concert Flute                61
4'  Flute                        61
8'  Clarinet                     61
    Tremolo
    Celesta
    Celesta Sub

    ECHO (Expressive)
8'  Cor de Nuit                  --
8'  Dolcissimo                   --
8'  Vox Angelica                 --
8'  Vox Humana                   --

    PEDAL
16' Diapason                     32
16' 1st Bourdon                  32
16' 2nd Bourdon            (Sw)  --
8'  Octave                       12
8'  Gedeckt                      12
16' Trombone               (Gt)  12

    COUPLERS
Not Documented

    FINGER PISTONS
Not Documented

    TOE STUDS 
Not Documented

    PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Not Documented

    NOTES
a  from Pedal 16' 1st Bourdon
b  from Pedal 16' Diapason

The organ was moved here from St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Flint,
Michigan, in 1939 by Aeolian-Skinner and has been altered since.

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#22397†* - Ernest M. Skinner Company Opus 266 (1916)