2018-04-01 - Facade (Photograph by Scot Huntington/Scot Huntington)
2019-03-23 - This describes a rebuild of an existing organ. <br>Identified by Scot Huntington, who has heard or played the organ.<br>This was an enlargement of the Aeolian-Skinner with tonal additions and chest work. The chancel chamber is now overcrowded. At some point post-2000, Potter-Rathbun installed a new solid-state control system with an expanded manual piston complement in the manual keyslips. The facade covering the chancel chamber is rudimentary and gives the impression of being home-made. -Database Manager
2019-04-18 - Updated by Scot Huntington, who has heard or played the organ. In addition Scot Huntington gave this as a source of information: Examination of organ March 21, 2019. <br> <br>First ca. 1968 enlargement used existing chime and coupler stop controls repurposed to control new stops. The original stop tablet coupler rail was replaced, now with added tablets to control the intra-manual functions previously accessed by stop knobs. Two pedal stops are now controlled by new toe studs with indicator lamps in the Swell keycheek. Wind and Signal lamps once on the nameboard have been moved to the other Swell keycheek. The Great and Swell keyslips have been replaced with new units having a substantially expanded piston complement. The new 8-level Peterson solid-state control system has a roto-selector in the nameboard where the original signal lamps once were. -Database Manager
Original document from Scot Huntington. Source: Stoplist from console 3/21/19. 2019-03-26
Middletown, Rhode Island St. Columba's Episcopal, Berkeley Memorial Church Organ enlarged by Potter-Rathbun, ca. 1968 Aeolian-Skinner opus 956, 1937 Compasses: 61/32 GREAT Diapason 8 Flute Couverte 8 Dulciana 8 Principal 4 Fifteenth 2 Larigot 1 1/3 NEW Mixture II NEW 1 1/3, 1; breaks f#31, c#50 Trumpete (SW) 8 NEW [sic] Chimes (new?) Deagan volume roto-selector 1-5 Cymbelstern NEW SWELL (enclosed) Geigen 8 Rohrflute 8 Salicional 8 Voix Celeste 8 t.c. Flute Triangulaire 4 Harmonic Flute 2 NEW Mixture III 1 1/3, 1, 2/3; breaks f#19, f#43 Trumpet 8 Clarion 4 NEW Tremolo PEDAL Principal 16 Bourdon 16 Swell, extension [Quinte 10 2/3] NEW toe stud with indicator lamp (Bourdon) Octave 8 [Bourdon 8] toe stud with indicator lamp; orig. "Flute" (Swell) Choral Bass 4 NEW Mixture III NEW 2, 1 1/3, 1 Trumpet (SW) 16 NEW, extension NEW COUPLER RAIL (ca. 1968 or newer) Great Unison Off Great 4 Swell to Great 16, 8, 4 Swell 16 Swell Unison Off Swell 4 Great to Pedal 8,4 Swell to Pedal 8,4 Peterson memory level roto-selector 1-8 (NEW) MECHANICALS Swell, Great divisionals 1-6 (NEW) Pedal divisionals 1-4 (toe) Generals 1-8 (NEW) General Cancel 0 Setter (unlabeled) Great to Pedal reversible thumb, toe (NEW) Swell to Pedal reversible thumb, toe (NEW) Sforz (toe) Balanced Swell Pedal Crescendo Pedal
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