Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1995. -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Altered & new supply house console 1960's by amateurs. Rebuilt by George Price in 1979. Rebuild by Dobson, 1994 with alterations. -Database Manager
2006-05-08 - 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>Badly altered in 1960s by amateurs with supply house console in 1965; rebuilt by George Price in 1979; chests and console offered for sale in 1994; replaced by Dobson retaining some seven ranks.</i> -Database Manager
2010-08-21 - Updated through online information from Chad Boorsma. -- The first changes to the organ were in the 1950's when pipes salvaged from a local Johnson organ replaced several ranks. The work in the 1960's was by Casavant when the Great Mixture was added, and the entire Choir division was replaced except for the Clarinet. Today, nine stops on the Dobson organ have pipes from the original Skinner organ. -Database Manager
From Allen Kinzey via <i>The Aeolian-Skinner Archives</i> Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Battle Creek, Michigan
First Presbyterian Church
Skinner Organ Company Opus 720 1928 3 manuals, 29 stops, 33 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN SWELL ORGAN
16' Bourdon 61 8' Diapason 73
8' First Diapason 61 8' Rohrflöte 73
8' Second Diapason 61 8' Salicional 73
8' Flute Harmonique 61 8' Voix Celeste 73
4' Principal 61 4' Octave 73
4' Flute 61 4' Flute Triangulaire 73
2' Fifteenth 61 V Mixture 305
8' Tuba 61 16' Waldhorn 73
Chimes 8' Trumpet 73
8' Oboe d'Amore 73
CHOIR ORGAN 8' Vox Humana 73
8' Geigen 73 Tremolo
8' Concert Flute 73
8' Dulciana 73 PEDAL ORGAN
8' Unda Maris (TC) 61 16' Diapason 32
4' Flute 73 16' Bourdon GT
8' Clarinet 73 8' Octave 12
Tremolo 8' Gedeckt GT
8' Harp (TC) -- 4' Flute GT
4' Celesta 61 bars 16' Trombone 32
Chimes GT
ECHO ORGAN
8' Quintadena 61
8' Vox Humana 61
Tremolo
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2016-07-08]
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