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Skinner Organ Co. Opus 578 (1926)

South Congregational Church
45 Maple Street
Springfield, MA

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


Images


Unknown - Console (Robert Stanley Swan, organist) (Photograph in church archives, courtesy of Lawrence Picard (1952-1968)/Database Manager)

Unknown - Chancel and Facade (Photograph from OHS Archives 2011.06.26/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> Rebuild and enlargement of #164; work done in Westfield; dedicated on September 26, 1926; replaced by 3/45 Austin, #2533 in 1971; dispersed; some pipes went to #388, #724 and #862.</i> -Database Manager


Stoplist

Stoplist from Allen Kinzey via <i>The Aeolian-Skinner Archives</i> Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Springfield, Massachusetts
South Congregational Church

Skinner Organ Company   Opus 578   1926      4 manuals, 44 stops, 49 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' Clarabella          73
      8' Clarabella          61             8' Gedeckt             73
      8' Erzähler            61             8' Salicional          73
      8' Waldflöte           61             8' Voix Celeste        73
      4' Octave              61             8' Flauto Dolce        73
      4' Flute               61             8' Flute Celeste (TC)  61
      8' Tromba              61             8' Aeoline             73
      8' French Horn         SO             4' Flute Triangulaire  73
         Chimes (in SW)      20 tubes       2' Flautino            61
                                            V  Mixture            305
         CHOIR ORGAN (a)                   16' Posaune             73
     16' Gamba               61             8' Cornopean           73
      8' Diapason            61             8' Flugel Horn         73
      8' Melodia             61             8' Vox Humana          61
      8' Quintadena          61             4' Clarion             73
      8' Dulcet II          122                Tremolo
      4' Flute               61
      2' Piccolo             61                PEDAL ORGAN
      8' Clarinet            61            32' Diapason (resultant)
      8' Orchestral Oboe     61            16' Diapason            32
         Tremolo                           16' Bourdon             32
      8' Harp (CC-C new)     61 bars       16' Violone             32
      4' Celesta             --            16' Gamba               CH
                                           16' Echo Bourdon        SW
         SOLO ORGAN                         8' Octave              12
      8' Gamba               73             8' Gedeckt             12
      8' Gamba Celeste       73             8' Cello               CH
      8' Gross Gedeckt       73             8' Still Gedeckt       SW
      8' Tuba Mirabilis      73            16' Trombone            32
      8' French Horn         73            16' Posaune             SW
      8' English Horn        73                Chimes              GT
         Tremolo

     (a) from existing organ, revised


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2014-09-26]



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