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Skinner Organ Co. Opus 367 (1922)

Mount Holyoke College: Mary Lyon Chapel / Abbey Memorial Chapel
South Hadley, MA

Images

2015 - Console and organ case (Photograph by Len Levasseur, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Unknown - Chapel exterior (Photograph from an archival source: cardcow.com, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Unknown - Chapel interior (Photograph by mapio.net, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2019-03-27 - Chapel interior (Photograph by Stephen St-Denis, via flickr.com, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

4 manuals
42 stops
50 registers
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes

Notes

2004-10-30 - The original builder was Geo. S. Hutchings (1898, Opus436). -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Rebuild. Rebuilt by Ernest Skinner & Son in 1938. -Database Manager

2006-01-07 - Updated 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: Rebuild of 1898 3/36 Geo. S. Hutchings, #436; rebuilt by E. M. Skinner & Son in 1938 as #511. -Database Manager

2021-11-30 - Originally called Mary Lyon Chapel and connected to Mary Lyon Hall, it was renamed Abbey Memorial Chapel in memory of Emily Abbey Gill when her family funded a major enlargement of the chapel in 1938. -Jeff Scofield

Stoplist

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

South Hadley, Massachusetts
Mount Holyoke College - Mary Lyon Chapel

Skinner Organ Company   Opus 367   1922       4 manuals, 50 stops, 46 ranks
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        GREAT ORGAN                            SWELL ORGAN
    16' Diapason            61             16' Bourdon              73
     8' First Diapason      61              8' Diapason             73
     8' Second Diapason     61              8' Clarabella           73
     8' Principal Flute     61              8' Salicional           73
     8' Erzähler            61              8' Voix Celeste         61 tc
     4' Octave              61              8' Flauto Dolce         73
     4' Flute               61              8' Flute Celeste        61 tc
 2 2/3' Twelfth             61              4' Octave               73
     2' Fifteenth           61              4' Violina              73
     8' Trumpet             61              4' Harmonic Flute       73
        Chimes              pf              2' Fifteenth            61
                                           IV  Mixture             244
        CHOIR ORGAN                        16' English Horn         73
     8' Diapason            73              8' Cornopean            73
     8' Melodia             73              8' Oboe                 73
     8' Viola               73              8' Vox Humana           73
     8' Kleine Erzähler II 146              4' Clarion              73
     4' Flute               73                 Tremolo
 2 2/3' Nazard              61
     2' Piccolo             61                 PEDAL ORGAN
 1 3/5' Tierce              61             16' Diapason             32
 1 1/7' Septieme            61             16' Bourdon              32
     8' Clarinet            73             16' Violone              32
        Tremolo                            16' Gemshorn             32
        Harp                pf              8' Octave               12
        Celesta             pf              8' Principal (Gemshorn) 12
                                            8' Gedeckt              12
        SOLO ORGAN                          8' Still Gedeckt        SW
        (added 1938 by Ernest           5 1/3' Quint (Gemshorn)     --
        Skinner & Son, Op. 511)            32' Fagotto (Eng. Horn)  12 SW
                                           16' Trombone             32
                                           16' English Horn         SW
                                            8' Tromba               12
                                               Chimes               GT pf


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2014-09-16]

Websites

Opus 367: Mount Holyoke College - Abbey Memorial Chapel - (Aeolian-Skinner Archives website) Stoplist, photographs (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

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