Better Pipe Organ Database

Skinner Organ Co. Opus 783 (1929)

Residence: B.D. Phillips - 'Elm Court'
Butler, PA

Images

1990 - Pipework (Photograph by A. Thompson-Allen/John Roper)

1990 - Pipework: harp (Photograph by A. Thompson-Allen/John Roper)

1990 - Pipework (Photograph by A. Thompson-Allen/John Roper)

1990 - Building (Photograph by A. Thompson-Allen/John Roper)

1990 - Room (Photograph by A. Thompson-Allen/John Roper)

1990 - Console back (Photograph by A. Thompson-Allen/John Roper)

1990 - Console (Photograph by A. Thompson-Allen/John Roper)

Consoles

Main

2 manuals
12 stops
44 registers
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes

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: With player attachment; ceiling installation; extant; restoration by A. Thompson-Allen Co. in 1990. -Database Manager

2013-05-16 - Updated through online information from Jim Thompson. -Database Manager

Stoplist

From Allen Kinzey via The Aeolian-Skinner Archives Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Butler, Pennsylvania
B. D. Phillips Residence - "Elm Court"

Skinner Organ Company   Opus 783   1929
2 manuals, 44 registers, 12 stops, 15 ranks
___________________________________________________

           GREAT ORGAN
           Expression Box 1 (7 1/2" wind)
        8' Diapason           61
        8' Orchestral Flute   73
        8' Flute Celeste II  110
        8' Voix Celeste II   110
        4' Flute              --
        8' Cornopean          61
        8' Harp (TC)          --
        4' Celesta            61 bars
 
           Expression Box 2 (7 1/2" wind)
       16' Bourdon            97
        8' Chimney Flute      --
        4' Flute              --
    2 2/3' Nazard             --
        2' Piccolo            --
        8' Cello Celeste II  122
        8' French Horn        61
        8' English Horn       61
        8' Clarinet           61
        8' Vox Humana         61
        8' Trumpet            73
        4' Clarion            --
           Chimes             20 tubes
 
           SWELL ORGAN
           (duplicate of Great)
 
           PEDAL ORGAN
       16' Bourdon            12  (ext. I Orch. Fl)           
       16' Echo Lieblich      II
        8' Gedeckt             I
        8' Still Gedeckt      II
       16' Trombone           12  (ext. II Trumpet)
        8' Tromba             II
           Chimes             II
           Bass Drum
           Tympani


[Received by Steven E. Lawson  2016-07-26]