Better Pipe Organ Database

Skinner Organ Co. Opus 778 (1929)

First Presbyterian Church: Sanctuary
64 Passaic Street
Hackensack, NJ

Images

Unknown - Church Exterior ((ca. 2015) Photograph by FPC of Hackensack; image courtesy of Rasaan Hakiem Bourke/Database Manager)

2015-01-15 - Console (Photograph by Rasaan Bourke/Database Manager)

2015-01-15 - Manuals and Coupler Rocking Tablets (Photograph by Rasaan Bourke/Database Manager)

Unknown - Right Drawknobs (Photograph by Rasaan Hakiem Bourke/Database Manager)

2014-07-15 - Console (Photograph by Rasaan Hakiem Bourke/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
3 manuals
21 stops
28 registers
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has tutti thumb 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; some tonal changes and additions ca. 1990 with solid-state combination action. -Database Manager

2015-02-28 - Updated through online information from Davis C. Badaszewski. -Database Manager

2015-11-08 - Updated through online information from Rasaan Bourke. -- Presently, Opus 778 is serviced through a maintenance program with the Peragallo Pipe Organ Company. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from The Diapason, August 1929 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Hackensack, New Jersey
First Presbyterian Church

Skinner Organ Company   Opus 778   1929       3 manuals, 21 stops, 21 ranks
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        GREAT ORGAN                             SWELL ORGAN
     8' Diapason            61              16' Bourdon             73
     8' Principal Flute     61               8' Diapason            73
     8' Voix Celeste II     SW               8' Rohrflöte           73
     8' Aeoline             SW               8' Salicional          73
     4' Octave              61               8' Voix Celeste        73
     4' Flute Triangulaire  SW               8' Aeoline             73
     8' Tuba                61               4' Flute Triangulaire  73
     8' Oboe d'Amore        SW               2' Piccolo             61
        Chimes              25 tubes         8' Cornopean           73
                                             8' Oboe d'Amore        73
        CHOIR ORGAN                          8' Vox Humana          73
     8' Chimney Flute       73                  Tremolo
     8' Dulciana            73
     8' Unda Maris (TC)     61                  PEDAL ORGAN
     4' Flute               73              16' Sub Bass            32
     8' Clarinet            73              16' Echo Lieblich       SW
        Tremolo                              8' Octave              12
     8' Harp (TC)           --               8' Still Gedeckt       SW
     4' Celesta             61 bars             Chimes              GT


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2014-09-30]

Websites

Opus 778: First Presbyterian Church - (Aeolian-Skinner Archives Web Site) Stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)