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James Andrews (1975)

St. Bridget Roman Catholic Church
6006 Three Chopt Road
Richmond, VA

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

Images

2008-11-02 - Church Interior and Altar (Photograph by John G. DeMajo/Database Manager)

2008-11-02 - Gallery and Pipe Facade (Photograph by John G. DeMajo/Database Manager)

2008-11-02 - Console (Photograph by John G. DeMajo/Database Manager)

2008-11-02 - Left Stop Jamb (Photograph by John G. DeMajo/Database Manager)

2008-11-02 - Right Stop Jamb (Photograph by John G. DeMajo/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
21 stops
30 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Has combination thumb pistons

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: E. M. Skinner Opus 574, originally built for Monumental Church, Richmond; restored by Jim Andrews. -Database Manager

2013-03-15 - Updated through online information from Sumner Jenkins. -- The instrument was removed just after New Year 2013. It is being relocated and rebuilt although I do not know where. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist (Source: Summer/Fall 2012) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

    St. Bridget Roman Catholic Church
    Richmond, Virginia
    Skinner Organ Co., Opus 574, 1925
    This installation by James Andrews, 1975
    OHS ID: 23184
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    GREAT (61n, 61p)     SWELL (61n, 73p/rk)    PEDAL (32n)
 16 Bourdon (Pd ext)  16 Bourdon             16 Diapason (44 pipes)
  8 Open Diapason      8 Diapason            16 Bourdon (61 pipes)
  8 Claribel Flute     8 Gedeckt             16 Echo Bourdon (Sw)
  4 Octave             8 Salicional           8 Octave (ext 16)
  4 Flute (Sw)         8 Voix Celeste         8 Gedeckt (ext 16)
  8 Cornopean (Sw)     8 Flauto Dolce         8 Still Gedeckt (Sw)
    Blank knob         8 Flute Celeste TC       Blank knob
                       4 Triangle Flute
    CHOIR                Mixture V
  8 Concert Flute      8 Cornopean
  8 Dulciana           8 Flugel Horn
  4 Flute              8 Vox Humana
  8 English Horn         Tremolo
    Tremolo
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[Received online from T. Daniel Hancock, 2012-10-04]

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#23155†* - Skinner Organ Co. Opus 574 (1925)