2008-05-19 - 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> Extant; unaltered.</i> -Database Manager
2008-11-21 - Updated through online information from Steven Ickes. -- Twelfth added to Great by Fritzsche, mid-1980s. Restoration by Emery Brothers, Doylestown, PA, following 9/11/1997 church fire; SSL control system added for combinations/levels of memory; console relocated to center rear of chancel; 16' Trombone in Pedal melted in fire, refabricated by A.R. Schopp's Sons to Aeolian-Skinner scaling. Instrument returned to service 10/15/2000. -Database Manager
2015-07-24 - Updated through online information from Steven Ickes. -Database Manager
2015-08-10 - Updated through online information from Claude R Fabinyi. -- Information gathered from current organist, myself -- wonderful instrument -Database Manager
2016-03-19 - Updated through online information from Claude Fabinyi.<br>Organ experienced electrical problems following a lightning strike during the Summer of 2015. Emery Brothers Organ Company has since repaired the damages and the organ is in 100% working order. -Database Manager
Stoplist from Jonathan Bowen Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Altoona, Pennsylvania
First Evangelical Lutheran Church
Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co., Inc. Opus 1122 1947 3 manuals, 29 stops, 31 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN SWELL ORGAN
8' Diapason 61 16' Rohrgedackt 68
8' Hohlflute 61 8' Diapason 68
8' Gemshorn pf 8' Stopped Diapason 68
4' Octave 61 8' Viole de Gambe 68
4' Harmonic Flute 61 8' Viole Celeste 68
2 2/3' Twelfth 61 4' Octave Geigen 68
2' Super Octave 61 4' Flute Triangulaire 68
III Fourniture 183 III Plein Jeu pf
Chimes (in CH) 25 tubes 16' Contra Fagotto 68
8' Trumpet 68
CHOIR ORGAN 8' Oboe 68
8' Concert Flute 68 8' Vox Humana 68
8' Viola 68 4' Clarion 68
8' Dulciana 68 Tremolo
4' Flute 68
2 2/3' Nazard 61 PEDAL ORGAN
2' Piccolo 61 16' Contra Basse 32
8' Clarinet 68 16' Bourdon 32
Tremolo 16' Rohrgedackt SW
Chimes GT 8' Octave 12
Harp pf 8' Flute 12
Celesta pf 8' Rohrgedackt SW
4' Super Octave 12
16' Trombone 32
8' Trumpet 12
Chimes GT
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2016-07-26]
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