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Skinner Organ Co. Opus 500-A (1928)

Residence: Jerome W. Benesch
Baltimore, MD

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Consoles

Main

2 manuals
15 stops
30 registers
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes

Notes

2006-03-04 - 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: Additions to Opus 500 (1924). -Database Manager

2024-11-22 - This writer serviced this organ several times in the mid 1970s and again in the early 2000s. Its second home is Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, 7041 Solars Point Rd., Dundalk MD. It was installed in the late 1950s building, in two elevated chambers at the front of the church. The right chamber holds the console and the larger left chamber the two pipe chambers. In the 1970s the instrument was intact, though the roll player mechanism was gone. In the 2000s a new solid state relay was installed to deal with the stops and key mechanisms. The Lutheran congregation has since sold the building to another congregation and the organ, sits silent as there is problem with the blower. Though there has been some water migration, into the chamber, the instrument is intact and well worth restoring. -Steve Bartley

Stoplist

From Allen Kinzey via The Aeolian-Skinner Archives Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Baltimore, Maryland
Jerome W. Benesch Residence

Skinner Organ Company   Opus 500-A   1928       2 manuals, 15 stops, 17 ranks
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With player attachment

                MANUAL I
                Expression Box 1
             8' Diapason             61
             8' Voix Celeste II     122
             8' Flute Celeste II    110
             8' Tuba                 61   (added 1928 as Op. 500-A)
             8' Harp (TC)            --
             4' Celesta
 
                Expression Box 2
             8' Cello                61
             8' Chimney Flute        61
             4' Orchestral Flute     61
             8' Orchestral Oboe      61   (added 1928; replaced English Horn)
             8' Flügel Horn          61
             8' Clarinet             61   (added 1928 as Op. 500-A)
             8' French Horn          61
             8' Vox Humana           61
                Tremolo
                Chimes
 
                MANUAL II
                (same as Manual I)
 
                PEDAL ORGAN
            16' Bourdon              32
            16' Violone              32   (added 1928 as Op. 500-A)
             8' Gedeckt              12
             8' Cello                12   (added 1928 as Op. 500-A)
            16' Trombone             32   (added 1928 as Op. 500-A)
             8' Tromba               12   (added 1928 as Op. 500-A)


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2016-07-11]

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