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Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. Opus 1078 (1945)

First Church of Christ, Scientist
280 W. Muskegon Avenue
Muskegon, MI

Images

2010-07-01 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-07-01 - Console (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-07-01 - Church Interior (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
3 manuals
20 stops
22 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop 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)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2008-03-18 - 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: Replaced by Becker in 1971. -Database Manager

2010-07-06 - Updated through online information from Chad Boorsma. -- The Christian Science church is not currently meeting at this location, but they still own the building. A different congregation is leasing the space. There isn't a Becker organ there; the 1948 Aeolian-Skinner organ is still there -- just as it was installed. The pipe chambers are behind the front curtains. The contract for the organ was signed in 1945, with the organ being installed in 1948. The cost of the organ was $15,000. -Database Manager

2013-01-01 - Updated through online information from Caron Farmer. -- There was never a Becker organ in this building; the statement in Kinzey-Lawn is inaccurate. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

Muskegon, Michigan
First Church of Christ, Scientist

Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co., Inc.   Opus 1078   1945
3 manuals, 22 registers, 20 stops, 21 ranks
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       GREAT ORGAN                         SWELL ORGAN
    8' Open Diapason       61           8' Geigen Diapason     73
    8' Harmonic Flute      61           8' Rohrflöte           73
    8' Erzähler            61           8' Salicional          73
    4' Octave              61           8' Voix Celeste (TC)   61
   II  Grave Mixture      122           4' Flute Triangulaire  73
       Chimes                           8' Trumpet             73
                                        8' Oboe                73
       CHOIR ORGAN                      8' Vox Humana          73
    8' Viola               73              Tremolo
    8' Concert Flute       73
    8' Dulciana            73              PEDAL ORGAN
    4' Orchestral Flute    73          16' Open Diapason       32
    8' Clarinet            73          16' Bourdon             32
       Tremolo                          8' Octave              12
                                        8' Flute               12
                                           Chimes              GT


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2016-04-29]

Documents

(1945-12-18) Original Contract Documentation courtesy of the Organ Historical Society Archive -Roman Lizak

Websites

Opus 1078: First Church of Christ, Scientist - (Aeolian-Skinner Archives Web Site) Stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)