Unknown - Console and Janet Thurtle, St. Philip student (ca. 1948) (Photograph from the Church Archives and supplied by Matthew Davis/Database Manager)
2006-05-10 - 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: Tonally altered; Casavant additions and pedal reed from #604 by Michael Perrault. -Database Manager
2007-04-19 - Updated through online information from Trevor Dodd. -Database Manager
2010-08-20 - Updated through online information from Chad Boorsma -- The contract for the organ was signed in 1929. The instrument had some modifications to it before the Casavant/Michael Perrault rebuild in 1991, including the replacement of the keyboards and drawknobs with supply house items. The original cost of the organ was $19,940 with $10,000 coming from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. Professor William E. Zeuch, Vice President at Skinner, was originally scheduled to give the dedicatory concert on May 26, 1930, but a death in the family prevented him from doing so. Herbert E. Hyde, mid-western representative for Skinner, played instead and was apparently well-received by the audience. -Database Manager
Stoplist from <i>The Diapason</i>, November 1929 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Battle Creek, Michigan
St. Philip Roman Catholic Church
Skinner Organ Company Opus 787 1929 3 manuals, 25 stops, 28 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN SWELL ORGAN
16' Bourdon 17 PED 8' Diapason 73
8' First Diapason 61 8' Rohrflöte 73
8' Second Diapason 61 8' Echo Salicional 73
8' Flute Harmonique 61 8' Echo Salic. Celeste 73
4' Octave 61 4' Flute Triangulaire 73
II Grave Mixture 122 III Mixture 183
16' Waldhorn 73
CHOIR ORGAN 8' Trumpet 73
16' Contra Gamba 73 8' Flügel Horn 73
8' Cello 73 8' Vox Humana 73
8' Concert Flute 73 4' Clarion 73
8' Dulciana 73 Tremolo
8' Unda Maris (TC) 61
4' Flute d'Amour 73 PEDAL ORGAN
8' Corno di Bassetto 73 16' Diapason 32
Tremolo 16' Diapason 32
8' Harp (TC) -- 16' Contra Gamba CH
4' Celesta 61 bars 8' Octave 12
8' Gedeckt 12
4' Flute 12
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2016-07-08]
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