Better Pipe Organ Database

Skinner Organ Co. Opus 793 (1929)

Second Church of Christ, Scientist
129 Lafayette Street
Hartford, CT

OHS convention: 1994

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

Images

1994-06-24 - 1971 Austin console (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

1994-06-24 - Church Interior, Chancel, and Pipe Facades (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

1994-06-24 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

3 manuals
38 stops
46 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1994. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Restored 1989 by A. Thompson-Allen Co. -Database Manager

2006-05-10 - Updated through information adapted from E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: Tonally unaltered; new Austin console in 1971; Swell restored by A. Thompson-Allen Co. in 1989; console from #906 owned by church for complete restoration. -Database Manager

2010-12-11 - Relocated to Memorial Church, Harvard University in 2010 by Foley-Baker. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist Source: From Allen Kinzey Date not recorded

Hartford, Connecticut
Second Church of Christ, Scientist

Skinner Organ Company   Opus 793   1929           3 manuals, 38 stops, 44 ranks
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           GREAT ORGAN (5" wind)                  SWELL ORGAN (7 1/2" wind)
       16' Diapason            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              8' Flauto Dolce        73
        4' Flute               61              8' Flute Celeste (TC)  61
        2' Fifteenth           61              4' Octave              73
      III  Mixture            183              4' Flute Triangulaire  73
        8' Tuba         (12")  61  (in CH)     V  Mixture            305
        8' French Horn  (12")  61  (in CH)    16' Waldhorn            73
                                               8' Trumpet             73
           CHOIR ORGAN (6" wind)               8' Oboe d'Amore        73
       16' Gamba               73              8' Vox Humana          73
        8' Cello               73              4' Clarion             73
        8' Cello Celeste       73                 Tremolo
        8' Concert Flute       73
        8' Dulciana            73                 PEDAL ORGAN (6" wind)
        8' Unda Maris (TC)     61             16' Diapason            32
        4' Flute               73             16' Contre Basse        32
        4' Gambette            73             16' Bourdon             32
    2 2/3' Nazard              61             16' Gamba               CH
        8' Corno di Bassetto   73              8' Octave              12
           Tremolo                             8' Gedeckt             12
        8' Harp (TC)           --              8' Cello               12
        4' Celesta             61 bars         8' Gamba               CH
                                               4' Super Octave        12
                                               4' Flute               12
                                              16' Trombone     (10")  32
                                               8' Tromba       (10")  12


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2017-03-17]

Websites

Opus 793: Second Church of Christ, Scientist - (Aeolian-Skinner Archives website) Stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#47408 - Foley-Baker Inc. (2010)