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Skinner Organ Co. Opus 428 (1923)

Ascension Episcopal Church
4729 Ellsworth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA

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Unknown - Church interior (Photograph from an archival source: digital.library.pitt.edu, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main


Notes

2006-01-18 - 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> First Willis Chorus Mixture; renovated and tonal changes in 1954-55, #428-A and B; replaced by a 4/84 Austin, #2563 in 1974.</i> -Database Manager


Stoplist

Typed stoplist Source: From Allen Kinzey Date not recorded

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Church of the Ascension, Episcopal

Skinner Organ Company   Opus 428   1923        4 manuals, 54 stops, 62 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN                             SWELL ORGAN
     16' Diapason            61              16' Bourdon             73
      8' First Diapason      61               8' First Diapason      73
      8' Second Diapason     61               8' Second Diapason     73
      8' Claribel Flute      61               8' Clarabella          73
      8' Wald Flute          61               8' Gedeckt             73
      8' Erzähler            61               8' Salicional          73
      4' Octave              61               8' Voix Celeste        73
      4' Flute               61               8' Flauto Dolce        73
  2 2/3' Twelfth             61               8' Flute Celeste (TC)  61
      2' Fifteenth           61               4' Octave              73
         Mixture III        183               4' Flute               73
      8' Tromba              61               4' Unda Maris II      146
         Chimes              25 tubes         2' Flautino            61
      8' Processional Stop   49              IV  Mixture            244
                                             16' Posaune             73
         CHOIR ORGAN                          8' Cornopean           73
      8' Concert Flute       73               8' Oboe                73
      8' Wood Celeste        73               8' Vox Humana          73
      8' Kleine Erzähler II 134               4' Clarion             73
      8' Dulcet II          146                  Tremolo
      4' Octave              73
      4' Flute               73                  PEDAL ORGAN
  2 2/3' Nazard              61              32' Contra Bourdon      32
      2' Piccolo             61              16' Diapason            32
      8' Orchestral Oboe     73              16' Bourdon             12
      8' English Horn        73              16' Violone             32
         Tremolo                             16' Echo Bourdon        SW
      8' Harp (TC)           --               8' Octave              12
      4' Celesta             61 bars          8' Gedeckt             12
                                              8' Cello               12
         SOLO ORGAN                           8' Still Gedeckt       SW
      8' Stentorphone        73               4' Flute               12
      8' Gamba               73              32' Bombarde            32
      8' Gamba Celeste       73              16' Trombone            12
      4' Harmonic Flute      73              16' Posaune             SW
      4' Hohlpfeife          73               8' Tromba              12
      8' Tuba Mirabilis      73               4' Clarion             12
      8' French Horn         73                  Chimes              GT
      8' Corno di Bassetto   73
         Tremolo
 
         ANTIPHONAL ORGAN
         26 stops prepared-for


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2017-06-20]


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