2012-08-16 - Church exterior (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2006-01-07 - Identified through information adapted from <i>E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List</i>, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: <br><i> New Solo division installed in 1948, #353-A; replaced by 4/50 Austin, #2276 in 1956 retaining Solo.</i> -Database Manager
2012-04-06 - Updated through online information from Alan Binger. -- Skinner windchests bearing the opus number 353 have been discovered in the organ of Simpson United Methodist Church Perth Amboy, NJ. This organ was constructed inside a nineteenth century case, by an unidentified builder, by the church Organ Company of Edison, NJ in the early sixties utilizing existing pipework, various used parts including the aforementioned Skinner chests and a Reisner console. -Database Manager
From Allen Kinzey via <i>The Aeolian-Skinner Archives</i> Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Montclair, New Jersey
Central Presbyterian Church
Skinner Organ Company Opus 353 1922 4 manuals, 41 stops, 37 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN SWELL ORGAN
16' Bourdon 17 PED 16' Bourdon 73
8' First Diapason 61 8' Diapason 73
8' Second Diapason 61 8' Gedeckt 73
8' Claribel Flute 61 8' Salicional 73
8' Erzähler 61 8' Voix Celeste 73
4' Octave 61 8' Spitz Flute 73
4' Flute 61 8' Flute Celeste (TC) 61
2 2/3' Twelfth 61 4' Flute 61
2' Fifteenth 61 2' Flautino 61
8' Tromba 61 III Dolce Cornet 183
Chimes EC 8' Cornopean 73
8' Flügel Horn 73
CHOIR ORGAN 8' Vox Humana 73
8' Violin Diapason 61 Tremolo
8' Concert Flute 61
8' Dulciana 61 ECHO ORGAN (never installed)
8' Unda Maris (TC) 49 8' Stentorphone pf
4' Flute 61 8' Muted Viole pf
8' Clarinet 61 8' Viole Celeste pf
Tremolo 8' Fern Flute pf
4' Flute pf
SOLO ORGAN (added 1948) 8' Vox Humana pf
8' Gamba 73 a Tremolo
8' Gamba Celeste 73 a Chimes
8' Tuba 73 a
8' English Horn 73 a PEDAL ORGAN
Tremolo a 16' Diapason 32
16' Bourdon 32
16' Echo Bourdon SW
8' Octave 12
8' Gedeckt 12
8' Still Gedeckt SW
16' Trombone 32
a added 1948 as Op. 353-A 8' Tromba 12
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2015-10-16]
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