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Skinner Organ Co. Opus 553 (1925)

First Christian Church
Miami, FL

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


Images


c. 1929 - Exterior view of building (Photograph from an archival source: Postcard Archive, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

1939 - Sanctuary Interior and Chancel (Vintage Postcard (ca. 1939); image courtesy of William Dunklin/Database Manager)

Consoles

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Notes

2006-03-23 - 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> Klann console in 1965; given to Eureka College in Illinois in 1982 when church disbanded; moved by David Brodie & Tim Cook.</i> -Database Manager

2007-07-24 - Eventually broken up for parts, some of which are in the Muller restorative rebuild of Opus 647, Lake Erie College, Painesville, Ohio. -Database Manager

2007-07-24 - Eventually broken up for parts, some of which are in the Muller restorative rebuild of Opus 647, Lake Erie College, Painesville, Ohio. -Database Manager


Stoplist

From Larry Deutsch, with Allen Kinzey via <i>The Aeolian-Skinner Archives</i> Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Miami, Florida
First Christian Church

Skinner Organ Company   Opus 553   1925   3 manuals, 27 stops, 23 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN                         SWELL ORGAN
     16' Bourdon            17 PED       16' Bourdon            73
      8' Diapason           73            8' Diapason           73
      8' Clarabella         73            8' Gedeckt            73
      4' Octave             73            8' Salicional         73
      8' French Horn        61            8' Voix Celeste       73
                                          8' Flauto Dolce       73
         CHOIR ORGAN                      8' Flute Celeste (TC) 61
      8' Concert Flute      61            4' Flute              73
      8' Dulciana           61            8' Cornopean          73
      4' Flute              61            8' Flugel Horn        73
  2 2/3' Nazard             61               Tremolo
      8' Clarinet           61
         Tremolo                             PEDAL ORGAN
                                         16' Diapason           32
         ECHO ORGAN                      16' Bourdon            32
      8' Chimney Flute      61           16' Echo Bourdon       SW
      8' Vox Humana         61            8' Octave             12
         Tremolo                          8' Gedeckt            SW
         Chimes


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2014-09-08]


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