Unknown - Church exterior (Photograph by M. Salamone, via the church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1988. -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Restored by John Randolph. Historic Organs Recital 6 Nov 1988. -Database Manager
2005-10-03 - Online update from Russel Oliver -- Console restoration to original condition by Oliver Pipe Organ Company in 2004. Plaster and some water damage in organ chambers, awaiting further restoration. One stop changed (Aeoline swapped out for 4' Principal on Swell), but original pipes and rackboard preserved by John Randolph - church anticipates undoing the alteration to return organ to original specs. -Database Manager
2006-01-04 - Updated 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: <br><i>Extant; unaltered; donated to the church by Vincent Astor; refurbished by John Randolph in 1988.</i> -Database Manager
2007-01-05 - Updated through online information from Andrew Kryzak. -Database Manager
2009-09-17 - Updated through online information from John Elwood. -Database Manager
2010-03-11 - Updated through online information from Joseph Bertolozzi. -Database Manager
From Lynnwood Farnam Collection, Curtis Institute of Music, via Jonathan Bowen; and Joseph Bertolozzi Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Rhinebeck, New York
Church of the Messiah, Episcopal
Skinner Organ Company Opus 323 1920 3 manuals, 26 stops, 24 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN SWELL ORGAN
8' First Diapason 61 16' Bourdon 73
8' Second Diapason 61 8' Diapason 73
8' Waldflöte 61 8' Gedeckt 73
4' Flute Harmonique 61 8' Salicional 73
Chimes (added 1930) 8' Voix Celeste 73
8' Aeoline 73
CHOIR ORGAN 4' Flute 73
8' Concert Flute 73 2' Flautino 61
8' Dulciana 73 III Mixture 183
4' Flute 73 8' Cornopean 73
8' Tuba 73 8' Vox Humana 73
8' English Horn 73 Tremolo
Tremolo
COUPLERS
PEDAL ORGAN Swell to Pedal 8, 4
16' Diapason 32 Great to Pedal 8
16' Bourdon 32 Choir to Pedal 8
16' Echo Bourdon SW Swell to Great 16, 8, 4
8' Octave 12 Choir to Great 16, 8, 4
8' Gedeckt 12 Swell to Choir 16, 8, 4
8' Still Gedeckt SW Great to Great 4
Chimes GT Swell to Swell 16, 4
Choir to Choir 16, 4
ADJUSTABLE COMBINATIONS
Swell 1-2-3-4-5 (thumb) PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Great 1-2-3-4-5 (thumb) Balanced Swell Pedal
Choir 1-2-3-4-5 (thumb) Balanced Choir Pedal
Pedal 1-2-3-4-5 (toe) Crescendo Pedal
Great to Pedal Reversible
Sforzando Reversible
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2014-11-26]
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