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Ernest M. Skinner & Son (1942)

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Main

• Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
• Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
• 3 manuals
• 40 stops
• 46 registers
• 4 divisions
• Key action Type: Electrical
• Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
• Manual compass: 61 notes
• Pedal compass: 32 notes
• Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)

Notes

2007-03-12 - 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: <br><i> Rebuild of Aeolian-Skinner Opus 968/968A (1937/1939).</i> -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: From THE DIAPASON April 1942

       Williamsburg, Virginia
       Bruton Parish Church

       Aeolian-Skinner         Op. 968   1937   3/37
       Ernest M Skinner & Son            1942   3/50
       _________________________________________________

       GREAT                         CHOIR
    8' 1st Diapason      61       8' Viol d'Orchestre 61
    8' 2nd Diapason      61       8' Viol Celeste     61
    8' Principal Flute   61       8' Concert Flute    61
    8' Erzähler          61       8' Dulciana         61
    4' Octave            61       4' Harmonic Flute   61
    4' Principal         61   2 2/3' Nazard           61
    4' Flute             61       2' Tierce           61
2 2/3' Twelfth           61       8' French Horn      61
    2' Fifteenth         61       8' English Horn     61
   IV  Mixture          244       8' Clarinet         61
       Chimes            25          Tremolo
                                     Harp
       SWELL
   16' Echo Lieblich     73          PEDAL
    8' Diapason          73      16' Sub Bass         32
    8' Gedeckt           73      16' Gemshorn         32 
    8' Salicional        73      16' Echo Lieblich    SW
    8' Voix Celeste      73       8' Octave           12
    8' Erzähler          73       8' Principal        12
    8' Klein Celeste     61       8' Still Gedeckt    SW
    4' Octave            73   5 1/3' Quinte
    4' Viola             73       4' Fifteenth
    4' Flute Harmonique  73       V  Mixture
    2' Fifteenth         73      16' Trombone
   IV  Cornet           244      16' Trumpet
    V  Mixture          305       8' Tromba
   16' French Trumpet    73          Chimes           GT
    8' Trumpet (English) 73
    8' Cor d'Amore       73       Pipecounts ommitted
    8' Vox Humana        73       from half of the Pedal
    4' Clarion (English) 73       as published in THE
       Tremolo                    DIAPASON
       Harp & Celesta

           [Received from Jeff Scofield May 8, 2022]

Documents

• Write-up from THE DIAPASON April 1942 Stoplist and description -Jeff Scofield

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

• #25535 - Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. Opus 968 (1937)
• #25536 - Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. Opus 968-A (1939)
• #25540 - Kinzey-Angerstein (1970s)
• #25538†* - Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. Opus 968-B (1953)
• #25539†* - Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. Opus 968-C (1964)
• #25541†* - Orgues Létourneau Ltée (1995)
• #25534 - Hutchings-Votey Organ Co. (before 1937)
• #25533†* - Samuel Green (1785)

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