Better Pipe Organ Database

Skinner Organ Co. Opus 839 (1931)

Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church
1316 Park Avenue
Baltimore, MD

Images

2024-07-24 - Console (Photograph by Jim Tartella, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2020-04-10 - Church exterior (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2016-12-07 - Right organ chamber, façade pipes and console (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2020-11-10 - Windows (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2017-10-25 - Church interior to front (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2023-03-29 - Church interior (Photograph by Via Eric Plutz, Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2024-07-24 - Chancel and façade pipes (Jim Tartella, via Facebook/Jeff Scofield)

2024-07-24 - Stained-Glass Window (Jim Tartella, via Facebook/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
4 manuals
40 stops
46 registers
5 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Computerized/Digital
Has sequencer
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1996 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Tonally unaltered in 1987. Some work by Jim Akright. Some mechanical restoration begun by Columbia Organ Works in 1987. [Replaced an 1889 3m. Steere & Turner Op. 296.] -Database Manager

2006-05-16 - 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: Replaced 1889 three manual Steere & Turner, #296; tonally unaltered; some mechanical restoration begun by Columbia Organ Works in 1987; work ongoing. -Database Manager

2010-07-05 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- According to the Wikipedia article about the church/organ: "The 4-manual Ernest M. Skinner pipe organ has 2,939 pipes and remains essentially the same today as when it was installed in 1931 and tonally finished by G. Donald Harrison, as Skinner's opus 839. The organ underwent a complete restoration between 2002â€“2005, with all original 45 ranks of the instrument fully preserved. A 99-memory level Capture System was added to the organ in 2005." -Database Manager

2011-04-06 - Updated through online information from Paul Marchesano. -- Adding the pipe count on the detailed specification available form the church's website, the pipe count is 2856. There are 61 struck bars on the Harp + Celesta. -Database Manager

Stoplist

From Allen Kinzey via The Aeolian-Skinner Archives Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Baltimore, Maryland
Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church

Skinner Organ Company   Opus 839   1930       4 manuals, 40 stops, 45 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN                            SWELL ORGAN
     16' Double Diapason     61              8' Diapason            73
      8' First Diapason      61              8' Rohrflöte           73
      8' Second Diapason     61              8' Salicional          73
      8' Harmonic Flute      61              8' Voix Celeste        73
      4' Octave              61              8' Flute Celeste II   134
      4' Flute               61              4' Octave              73
  2 2/3' Twelfth             61              4' Flute Triangulaire  73
      2' Fifteenth           61              V  Mixture            305
      8' Tromba              61             16' Waldhorn            73
         Chimes                              8' Trumpet             73
                                             8' Oboe d'Amour        73
         CHOIR ORGAN                         8' Vox Humana          73
     16' Contra Gamba        73              4' Clarion             73
      8' Geigen Principal    73                 Tremolo
      8' Concert Flute       73
      8' Dulciana            73                 PEDAL ORGAN
      8' Unda Maris (TC)     61             32' Contra Bourdon      --
      4' Flute               73             16' First Diapason      32
  2 2/3' Nazard              61             16' Second Diapason     GT
      8' Clarinet            73             16' Contra Bass         32
         Tremolo                            16' Bourdon             32
      8' Harp (TC)           --             16' Contra Gamba        CH
      4' Celesta             61 bars         8' Octave              12
                                             8' Gedeckt             12
         SOLO ORGAN                         16' Trombone            44
      8' Flauto Mirabilis    73             16' Waldhorn            SW
      8' Gamba               73                 Chimes              GT
      8' Gamba Celeste       73
      8' Tuba Mirabilis      73
      8' French Horn         73
      8' English Horn        73
         Tremolo


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2016-07-10]