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Skinner Organ Co. Opus 752 (1929)

Chicago Civic Opera House
20 N. Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL

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


Consoles

Main


Notes

2006-05-09 - 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> Enlarged (Choir and three manual console) and altered by amateurs; in storage during building reconstruction in 1995; planned for reinstallation as original with new two manual console.</i> -Database Manager

2009-07-02 - Updated through online information from David Hiett. -- This organ was relocated to St James Episcopal Cathedral, Chicago Illinois. It was added to the current Austin organ at the Cathedral. Bradford Organ Company did the relocation and rebuilding. I was a part time employee for the project. -Database Manager


Stoplist

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

Chicago, Illinois
The Chicago Civic Opera House

Skinner Organ Company   Opus 752   1929           2 manuals, 25 stops, 33 ranks
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           GREAT ORGAN                            SWELL ORGAN
        8' First Diapason      61             16' Lieblich Gedeckt    73
        8' Second Diapason     61              8' Open Diapason       73
        8' Gamba               61              8' Stopped Diapason    73
        8' Clarabella          61              8' Salicional          73
        4' Octave              61              8' Voix Celeste        73
        4' Flute               61              8' Aeoline             73
    2 2/3' Twelfth             61              4' Octave              73
        2' Fifteenth           61              4' Flute Triangulaire  73
        V  Mixture            305              V  Mixture            305
        8' Trumpet             61             16' Waldhorn            73
           Chimes              pf              8' Cornopean           73
                                               8' Oboe                73
           PEDAL ORGAN                         4' Clarion             73
       16' Open Diapason       32                 Tremolo
       16' Bourdon             32
       16' Echo Lieblich       SW
        8' Octave              12
        8' Flute               12
       16' Waldhorn            SW


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2015-07-31]


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