2014-08-28 - Console (Photograph by Daniel Schumaker/Database Manager)
2013-10-12 - Altered and relocated existing organ. Identified by John Bryant, based on personal knowledge of the organ. -- Three ranks have been added to the original stoplist: 8' Diapason to the Great, 8' Diapason to the Choir and 16' Tuba to the Pedal; the Tuba is from the original Wangerin organ of the Chapel. No changes have been made to the Skinner pipework or chests. A new digital multiplex switching and combination action system has replaced the original electrical systems. -Database Manager
2025-03-12 - While the chapel's organ was indeed originally a Wangerin, the present instrument is a Bradford restoration and enlargement of E.M. Skinner Opus 621. This is noted in the "Related Instrument Entries" section...in fact the only stop retained from the Wangerin was its 16' Trombone. Email from Ronald Damholt, 2025-03-11 -Paul R. Marchesano
The organ has been provided with two consoles, one in the rear gallery and one near the chancel. The rear gallery console shell is original to Skinner Opus 621; the second console shell was also by EM Skinner. Both have been fitted with Syndyne drawknobs, Hesco Skinner-style engraving and Peterson electronics (including recording and playback capacity). Source: Bradford Organ Company files, including detailed notes on pipework by Bunn-Minnick, from whom the organ was purchased by Mundelein Seminary. 2014
Great (E. M. Skinner main chest; 2nd Open Diapason added on new unit chest) Bourdon 16 (1-44 from Ped; Skinner pipework), First Diapason 8 (Skinner pipework; scale 42), Second Open 8 (New pipework on new chests; scale 40; 1-12 in facade), Claribel Flute 8 (Skinner pipework), Octave 4 (Skinner pipework; scale 57), Flute 4 (Skinner pipewprk), Fifteenth 2 (Skinner pipework), Tromba 8 (Skinner pipework)
Swell (E M Skinner chestwork) Bourdon 16 (Skinner pipework), Diapason 8 (Skinner pipework; scale 45), Gedeckt 8 (Skinner pipework), Salicional 8 (Skinner pipework), Voix Celeste 8 (Skinner pipework), Aeoline 8 (Skinner pipework), Flute Celeste II 8 (Skinner pipework), Octave 4 (Skinner pipework), Triangle Flute 4 (Skinner pipework), Mixture IV (Skinner pipework), Waldhorn 16 (Skinner pipework), Cornopean 8 (Skinner pipework), Vox Humana 8 (Skinner pipework), Oboe d'Amore 8 (Skinner pipework), Tremolo
Choir (E. M. Skinner main chest; Choir Open Diapason added on new unit chest) Diapason 8 (New pipework; 46 scale), Concert Flute 8 (Skinner pipework), Dulciana 8 (Skinner pipework), Unda Maris 8 (Skinner pipework, from tc), Flute 4 (Skinner pipework), Clarinet 8 (Skinner pipework), Tremolo (Skinner), Harp 8 (Skinner; 61 bars from TC, constituting both 8' Harp and 4' Celesta), Celesta 4 (Skinner; same bars as Harp)
Pedal (E. M. Skinner chestwork, save for Wangerin 16' Trombone, on a new unit chest) Open Diapason 16 (Skinner pipework), Bourdon 16 (Skinner pipework), Echo Bourdon 16 (Skinner pipework), Gedeckt 8 (Skinner pipework), Double Trumpet 16 (Retained from Chapel's original 1925 Wangerin, on new chest), Waldhorn 16 (Skinner pipework), Chimes, Zimbelstern (New)
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