2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1996. -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Removed from church 1991. Retrieved from deceased organ builder's shop 1993. Reinstalled 1995 by Columbia Organ Works with additions & microprocessor-controlled combination action and switching. Historical Organ Recital 9 Feb 1996. -Database Manager
2005-02-21 - Information from http://www.columbiaorgan.com/cow/charles.html in 2004. -Database Manager
2006-04-21 - 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>Replaced a two manual tracker which had been tubularized and rebuilt by Reuben Midmer & Son; built in Westfield; some alterations by Lewis & Hitchcock in 1968; planned restoration by Samuel Koontz in 1992; due to death of Koontz, restoration completed by Columbia Organ Works in 1995 with additions using pipework from #415, #417, #429, #434 and #602.</i> -Database Manager
2012-09-28 - Updated through online information from Daniel Faber. Restored in 2019. New solid-state switching, refurbishment of manual and pedal claviers, refurbishment of offset chests, all pipework cleaned, refurbished, and voiced. Three ranks added: a Grave Mixture II to the Great (new pipework) and a 4' Principal to the Swell (vintage A-S pipework). Bottom octave of Swell Geigen 8 replaced. All work was performed by John Muller of Muller Pipe Organ Company, Croton Ohio -Database Manager
Typed stoplist Source: From Allen Kinzey Date not recorded
Charleston, West Virginia
St. John's Episcopal Church
Skinner Organ Company Opus 679 1927 3 manuals, 25 stops, 27 ranks
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Since the original stop list has not been located, below is the stop list of
the "restored and augmented" (from 23 to 27 ranks) instrument after completion
by Columbia Organ Works in 1995.
GREAT ORGAN (5 3/4" wind) SWELL ORGAN (6" wind)
16' Lieblich Gedeckt 73 8' Geigen 73
8' Diapason 73 8' Rohr Flute 73
8' Clarabella 73 8' Salicional 73
8' Flute Flute SW 8' Voix Celeste 73
8' Aeoline SW 8' Aeoline 73
4' Octave 73 4' Flute Triangulaire 73
4' Flute Triangulaire SW III Mixture 183
8' Trumpet SW 16' Contra Oboe 73
Chimes (in SW box) 8' Trumpet 73
8' Vox Humana 73
CHOIR ORGAN (7" wind) Tremolo
8' Orchestral Flute 73
8' Gamba 73 PEDAL ORGAN
8' Dulciana 73 32' Diapason (resultant) --
8' Unda Maris (tc) 61 a 32' Bourdon (resultant) --
4' Flauto Traverso 73 16' Diapason 32
2' Piccolo 61 16' Bourdon 32 d
8' Clarinet 73 16' Lieblich Gedeckt GT
Tremolo 8' Octave 12
8' Flute GT
ANCILLARY ORGAN (12" wind) 16' Oboe SW
8' Tuba 73 b
8' French Horn 73 c
Tremolo (French Horn)
MIDI
a addition, from Op. 417
b addition, from Op. 602
c addition, from Op. 429 and Op. 434
d addition, from Op. 415
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2017-06-13]
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