Better Pipe Organ Database

Skinner Organ Co. Opus 773 (1929)

First Presbyterian Church / Old First Presbyterian
Bryden Road & Ohio Avenue
Columbus, OH

OHS convention: 2022

Images

2022-08-02 - Chancel, choirloft and organ (Photograph by Luke Staisiunas, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2019-08-25 - Church interior (Photograph by Len Levasseur, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2019-08-25 - Console and organ chamber (Photograph by Len Levasseur, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Unknown - Console, 2013. (Photograph by Louis Robaszkiewicz/Database Manager)

Unknown - Chancel and Chamber grille (Photograph by Louis Robaszkiewicz/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
26 stops
20 registers
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2006-05-10 - 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 with water and plaster damage; somewhat altered; possibly for sale. -Database Manager

2007-02-10 - Updated through online information from Scott Hayes. -- Playable, but with many dead notes throughout enclosed Great and Swell Oboe, otherwise in good condition. -Database Manager

2012-03-17 - Updated through online information from Thomas Veregge. -Database Manager

2013-10-25 - Updated through online information from Louis Robaszkiewicz. -Database Manager

2022-08-12 - Replaced Hook & Hastings, Op. 1619. -Paul R. Marchesano

Stoplist

stop list from church organist William J. McKown Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Columbus, Ohio
(Old) First Presbyterian Church

Skinner Organ Company   Opus 773   1929      3 manuals, 26 stops, 20 ranks
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        GREAT ORGAN                            SWELL ORGAN
    16' Bourdon             17 PED          8' Open Diapason       73
     8' Diapason            61              8' Rohrflöte           73
     8' Clarabella          61 (in CH)      8' Salicional          73
     4' Principal           61 (in CH)      8' Voix Celeste        61 tc
     4' Flute               61 (in CH)      4' Octave              73
     8' French Horn         61 (in CH)     16' Contra Oboe         73
        Chimes                              8' Trumpet             73
                                            8' Oboe                12
        CHOIR ORGAN                         8' Vox Humana          73
     8' Orchestral Flute    73                 Tremolo
     8' Gamba               73
     8' Dulciana            73                 PEDAL ORGAN
     4' Flute Triangulaire  73             16' Diapason            32
     8' Clarinet            73             16' Bourdon             32
        Tremolo                             8' Octave              12
        Harp                pf              8' Flute               12
        Celesta             pf              8' Cello               CH
                                           16' Contra Oboe         SW
                                               Chimes              GT


 [Received from Louis Robaszkiewicz 2013-10-26.]

Websites

Opus 773: Old First Presbyterian Church - (Aeolian-Skinner Archives Web Site) Specification, photos (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)