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Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. Opus 980 (1938)

Brooks School: Ashburn Chapel
1160 Great Pond Rd.
North Andover, MA

Images

Unknown - Chapel interior with front chambers and console (Photograph by Earl L. Miller. The Tracker, Vol. 28, No. 2, 1984, pg. 18./Database Manager)

Unknown - Console (Photograph by Earl L. Miller. The Tracker, Vol. 28, No. 2, 1984 , pg. 23./Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
3 manuals
20 stops
20 registers
4 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)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1984. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - G. Donald Harrison design. Stops added according to original design in early 1980's by Andover Organ Co. -Database Manager

2007-03-16 - 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: Two prepared-for stops added by Andover in 1984; three rank Antiphonal by William A. Brys added in 1986. -Database Manager

2008-01-09 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

2022-03-31 - Restored 2000 by A. Thompson-Allen Company. -Paul R. Marchesano

Stoplist

http://aeolianskinner.organsociety.org/Specs/Op00980.html Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

North Andover, MA
Brooks School - Ashburn Chapel

Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co., Inc. Opus 980, 1938

Great - 2 1/2" wind

	8'	Principal			(prepared for)
	8'	Spitzflote		61
	8'	Bourdon			61
	4'	Principal		61
	2'	Octave			61
	IV	Fourniture		244	(19-22-26-29)

Swell - 3 1/2" wind

	8'	Viola			61
	8'	Viola Celeste			(prepared for)
	8'	Stopped Diapason	61
	4'	Gemshorn		61
	III	Cymbel			183	(29-33-36)
	8'	Trompette		61
		Tremolo

Positiv - 2 1/2" wind

	8'	Koppelflote		61
	4'	Nachthorn		61
	2 2/3'	Nazard			61
	2'	Blockflote		61
	1 3/5'	Tierce			61

Pedal - 3 1/2" wind

	16'	Bourdon			32
	8'	Gedackt			32
	4'	Principal		32
	III	Mixture			96	(5 1/3' - 2 2/3' - 2')
	16'	Posaune			32


 [Received from Edward L. Stauff 2014-02-28.]

Documents

(2001-06-21) Builder Ad A. Thompson-Allen Co. ad for restoration including detailed specification -Paul R. Marchesano

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