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Skinner Organ Co. Opus 565 (1925)

Residence: Thomas Jefferson Penn / Chinqua-Penn Foundation
2138 Wentworth Street
Reidsville, NC

OHS convention: 2001

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)


Images


2000-05-10 - Console (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2000-05-10 - Interior and Console (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2000-05-10 - Interior (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2000-05-10 - Interior (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main


Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1995. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Built for this location. Given to the Baptist Church, Reidsville in 1955. Returned to the museum in 1989. Restored 1994-1996 by Captain Ron Hodges of Reidsville and John Leighton. -Database Manager

2006-03-23 - Updated 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>With player attachment; given to Baptist Church, Reidsville, North Carolina in 1955; later returned to Penn residence; extant; restored in 1994-96 by Capt. Ron Hodges and John Leighton; residence is now the Chinquapenn Foundation.</i> -Database Manager

2012-05-25 - Updated through online information from Stephen Spake. -- John Dower and Co removed this organ for a buyer who bought it at auction of the property. It is currently in storage at his shop and looking for a home. -Database Manager


Stoplist

Typed stoplist Source: from Allen Kinzey Date not recorded

Reidsville, North Carolina
Thomas Jefferson Penn Residence - "Chinqua-Penn Plantation"

Skinner Organ Company   Opus 565   1925
2 manuals, 30 registers, 14 stops, 16 ranks
___________________________________________________________
          
                     MANUAL I
                     -----Expression 1-----
                 16' Bourdon              61
                  8' Diapason             61
                  8' Gedeckt              61
                  8' Voix Celeste II     122
                  8' Flute Celeste II    110
                  8' Cornopean            61
                  8' Harp (TC)
                  4' Celesta
                     -----Expression 2-----
                  8' Chimney Flute        61
                  8' Cello                61
                  4' Orchestra Flute      61
                  8' English Horn         61
                  8' Clarinet             61
                  8' French Horn          61
                  8' Vox Humana           61
                     Tremolo
                     Chimes
 
                     MANUAL II
                     Duplicate of Manual I
 
                     PEDAL
                 16' Bourdon              32
                 16' Echo Lieblich       MAN
                  8' Gedeckt              12
                  8' Still Gedeckt       MAN
                     Chimes              MAN


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2017-09-26]


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