Better Pipe Organ Database

Skinner Organ Co. Opus 757 (1929)

Constitution Hall
1776 D Street NW
Washington, DC

Images

2014-06-01 - Couplers (Photograph by Sue Ellen Adams/Database Manager)

2014-06-01 - Left Drawknobs (Pedal and Swell) (Photograph by Sue Ellen Adams/Database Manager)

2014-06-01 - Right Drawknobs (Choir and Great) (Photograph by Sue Ellen Adams/Database Manager)

2014-06-01 - Console (Photograph by Sue Ellen Adams/Database Manager)

2014-06-01 - Dedication Plaque and Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by Sue Ellen Adams/Database Manager)

2014-06-01 - Expression Pedals and Toe Studs (Photograph by Sue Ellen Adams/Database Manager)

2014-06-01 - Couplers (Photograph by Sue Ellen Adams/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

3 manuals
32 stops
40 registers
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes

Notes

2006-05-09 - 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: Extant; Aeolian-Skinner replaced missing Great Mixture in 1966. -Database Manager

2015-08-01 - Updated through online information from Carl Schwartz. -- Organ is extant and playable, tonally unaltered (Great Mixture replaced by Aeolian-Skinner due to damage), control system new, console moveable. -Database Manager

2016-03-28 - Console cables accidentally cut by auditorium workman and console removed to onsite storage. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist Source: from Allen Kinzey Date not recorded

Washington, District of Columbia
Constitution Hall

Skinner Organ Company   Opus 757   1929            3 manuals, 32 stops, 40 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN (6" wind)                     SWELL ORGAN (7 1/2" wind)
     16' Bourdon               17 PED           8' Diapason              73
      8' First Diapason        61               8' Rohrflöte             73
      8' Second Diapason       61               8' Salicional            73
      8' Flute Harmonique      61               8' Voix Celeste          73
      4' Principal             61               8' Viol d'Orchestre II  146
      4' Flute                 61               4' Octave                73
    III  Mixture              183               4' Flute Triangulaire    73
      8' Tromba                61               V  Mixture              305
      4' Clarion               61              16' Waldhorn              73
         Chimes                25 tubes         8' Trumpet               73
                                                8' Oboe d'Amore          73
         CHOIR ORGAN (7 1/2" wind)              8' Vox Humana            73
      8' Cello                 73               4' Clarion               73
      8' Orchestral Flute      73                  Tremolo
      8' Kleine Erzähler II   134
      4' Flute d'Amour         73                  PEDAL ORGAN (6" wind)
      2' Concert Piccolo       61              32' Resultant             --
      8' Tuba Mirabilis        73 (20" wind)   16' Diapason              32
      8' Corno di Bassetto     73              16' Contra Bass           32
         Tremolo                               16' Bourdon               32
      8' Harp (TC)             --               8' Octave                12
      4' Celesta               61 bars          8' Gedeckt               12
                                                8' Cello                 12
         TRAPS                                  4' Super Octave          12
         Snare Drum - roll and stroke           4' Flute                 12
         Tympani                               16' Trombone              32
         Bass Drum                              8' Tromba                12
                                                   Chimes                GT


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2017-09-27]

Websites

Opus 757: Constitution Hall - (Aeolian-Skinner Archives website) Stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)