2022-08-03 - Console (Photograph by Andrew Schaeffer, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2006-04-21 - 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> Designed by John Bell; altered & enlarged in 1949, console relocation, #696-A; addition of two identical divisions. one in a balcony and the other on stage - of four ranks each, #696-B; new five-manual console in 1972 by Reisner.</i> -Database Manager
2007-07-17 - Additional notes and photographs under the entry describing 1949 additions by Aeolian-Skinner. -Database Manager
2008-04-02 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager
2023-02-27 - Opus 696 is installed above the ceiling of the auditorium in a space n1.easuring eighteen by thirty-two feet. The organ speaks through a grille into the auditorium below. The Echo was placed in a separate location. The console was located in a balcony at the left side of the auditorium floor, facing the stage. The specification demonstrates Bell's influence, with emphases on 8' pitch; large-scaled, leather-lipped diapasons; seventy-three-note manual chests for 161 and 8' stops only (not 4'); and celestes drawing both ranks, the unison ranks not able to be drawn separately. Atypical is the number of stops left unenclosed on the Great division. The flue voicing was completed on April 10, 1929; reed voicing was completed on April 17. The swell boxes were to be 2" thick and "tightly fitted." -- *2007 OHS Atlas* -Paul R. Marchesano
Typed stoplist Source: from <i>The Diapason</i>, April 1928 Date not recorded
Indianapolis, Indiana
Scottish Rite Cathedral
Skinner Organ Company Opus 696 1928 4 manuals, 56 stops, 67 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN (* enclosed) SWELL ORGAN
16' Open Diapason 73 16' Bourdon 73
8' Principal Diapason 73 8' Open Diapason 73
8' Second Diapason 73 * 8' Gedeckt 73
8' Grossflote 73 * 8' Clarabella 73
8' Melodia 73 * 8' Salicional 73
8' Erzähler Celeste II 134 * 8' String Celeste II 146
4' Octave 61 4' Octave 73
4' Harmonic Flute 61 * 4' Chimney Flute 73
2' Fifteenth 61 2' Flageolet 61
Mixture V 305 Mixture IV 244
16' Ophicleide (10" wp) 73 * 16' Posaune (7½" wp) 73
8' Tuba (10" wp) 73 * 8' Cornopean (7½" wp) 73
4' Clarion (10" wp) 73 * 8' Oboe 73
Cathedral Chimes EC 8' Vox Humana 73
Celestial Harp 61 bars * 4' Clarion (7½" wp) 73
Tremolo
CHOIR ORGAN
16' Gamba 73 PEDAL ORGAN
8' Open Diapason 73 32' Bourdon 32
8' Concert Flute 73 32' Resultant --
8' Dulciana 73 16' Open Diapason 32
8' Unda Maris (TC) 61 16' Metal Diapason GT
4' Flute d'Amour 73 16' Violone 32
2' Piccolo 61 16' Bourdon 12
8' Clarinet 73 16' Lieblich SW
8' Orchestral Oboe 73 16' Contra Gamba CH
8' English Horn 73 8' Major Flute 12
Tremolo 8' Viol 12
8' Gedeckt 12
SOLO ORGAN (10" wind) 8' Gamba CH
8' Stentorphone 73 8' Dolce Flute SW
8' Orchestral 73 32' Bombarde 32
8' Gamba Celeste II 146 16' Trombone (15" wp) 32
4' Rohrflöte 61 16' Contra Posaune SW
8' Tuba Mirabilis (15") 73 8' Tromba 12
8' French Horn 73 4' Clarion 12
Tremolo (for 10" wind) Cathedral Chimes EC
Celestial Harp GT
ECHO ORGAN
8' Chimney Flute 73
8' Spitz Flute Cel II 134
8' Vox Angelica II 134
4' Traverse Flute 61
8' Vox Humana 73
Tremolo
Cathedral Chimes 25 bells
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2017-09-22]
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