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Skinner Organ Co. Opus 769 (1929)

All Hallows Episcopal Church
262 Bent Road
Wyncote, PA

Images

Unknown - Façade pipes (Photograph by Church website, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Unknown - Church exterior (Photograph by Church website, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2021-07-29 - Couplers (Photograph by Luke Staisiunas, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2021-07-29 - Right stopjamb (Photograph by Luke Staisiunas, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2021-07-29 - Left stopjamb (Photograph by Luke Staisiunas, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

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

Notes

2007-01-19 - 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; unaltered. -Database Manager

2021-07-29 - From the church website: In 2004, Patrick J. Murphy & Associates of Stowe, Pa. re-leathered the organ console’s leather components. The chests were re-leathered in 2007, and two new ranks were added where space had originally been prepared for a Second Open Diapason on the Great and a Dulciana on the Choir. A Grave Mixture II and a 2’ Piccolo were added to these divisions, respectively. The blower and motor were restored in 2011 after flooding. Although it was proposed to re-voice some pipework (such as the Choir Concert Flute to be re-voiced as a Quintadena!), and replace the organ console in the 1960’s, neither occurred. In 2014, as part of chancel remodeling, All Hallows elected to have Opus 769 re-wired for safety and reliability, focusing special attention on the console, which caused ciphers, dead notes, and other occasional problems, even very strangely, electrocution to the organist! Despite a mostly working combination action, it was quite limited in its capabilities and decidedly replaced with an Opus Two control system. The console is now state-of-the-art and aesthetically and mechanically in excellent condition, and the organ (and organist!) have an immensely wider range of registration capabilities necessary for the liturgy and recitals. In mid-2019, the Clarinet, one of the four reed stops was restored and the church plans to continue to restore one reed each year until they have all been brought back to their 1929 splendor. -Jeff Scofield

Stoplist

Typed stoplist Source: from Jonathan Bowen Date not recorded

Wyncote, Pennsylvania
All Hallows Episcopal Church

Skinner Organ Co.   Opus 769   1929          3 manuals, 17 stops, 19 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN                           SWELL ORGAN
     16' Bourdon              17 PED        8' Geigen Diapason      73
      8' First Diapason       73            8' Rohrflöte            73
      8' Second Diapason      pf            8' Salicional           73
      8' Principal Flute      73            8' Voix Celeste         73
      8' Rohrflöte            SW            4' Flute Triangulaire   73
      4' Octave               73          III  Mixture             183
                                            8' Trumpet              73
         CHOIR ORGAN                        8' Oboe d'Amore         73
      8' Concert Flute        73            8' Vox Humana           73
      8' Dulciana             pf               Tremolo
      4' Flute                73
      8' Clarinet             73               PEDAL ORGAN
         Tremolo                           16' Diapason             32
                                           16' Bourdon              32
                                            8' Octave               12
                                            8' Gedeckt              12
                                            4' Super Octave         12


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2018-05-04]

Websites

Opus 769: All Hallows Episcopal Church - (Aeolian-Skinner Archives website) Stoplist, photographs (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)