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Skinner Organ Co. Opus 737 (1928)

St. Philip's Episcopal Church
2800 Stanford Ave.
Los Angeles, CA

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
2 manuals
6 stops
11 registers
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 (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Blind Action
Has combination thumb pistons

Notes

2006-05-08 - 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 in the 1970s by Mylrea Organ Co.; partially restored by Williamson Warne & Associates in 1993-96. -Database Manager

2006-05-18 - Updated through on-line information from Mac Hayes. -- Spider-web wiring; large amounts of uncabled bare enamel wires running exposed from point to point through the chambers, run by unknown repairperson in years past. I have pictures of the console stopjambs available. Pedal, 4 stopknobs; Swell, 6 stopknobs + tremolo; Great, 8 stopknobs. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Skinner/A-S Opus List on the OHS Database

Great Rohr Flute 8, Diapason 8, Salicional 8, Flute 4

Swell Rohr Flute 8, Salicional 8, Voix Celeste 8, Flute 4, Corno d'Amore 8, Tremolo

Pedal Bourdon 16, Gedeckt 8

Websites

Opus 737: St. Philip's Episcopal Church - (Aeolian-Skinner Archives Web Site) Specification (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

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