Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1996. -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - G. Donald Harrison design. Altered. Wind pressure raised, then partially lowered . -Database Manager
2005-08-07 - Online update from John Speller -- Currently under consideration by church whether to rebuild this instrument or replace with new pipe organ. -Database Manager
2007-03-16 - 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>Dedication recital by Daniel R. Philippi on January 15, 1939; tonal changes in 1964; returned to original specification in 1991; extant.</i> -Database Manager
2008-01-21 - Updated through online information from John Speller. -- To be removed in late 2008 or early 2009 and replaced by a new organ built by Juget-Sinclair of Montreal, completion June 2009. -Database Manager
2009-04-16 - Updated through online information from John Speller. -- This organ has been sold to Quimby Pipe Organs and was removed April 14 and 15, 2009. -Database Manager
Specification from OHS PC Database via John Speller Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
St. Louis, Missouri
St. Mark's Memorial Episcopal Church
Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co., Inc. Opus 979 1938
2 manuals, 8 registers, 7 stops, 9 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN
8' Principal 61
8' Spitzflöte 61 (common Flauto Dolce)
4' Nachthorn 61 (common Positiv type)
Great to Great 4'
Swell to Great 16', 8', 4'
SWELL ORGAN
8' Bourdon 61 (1-12 stopped wood)
4' Prestant 61 (lowest two octaves slotted)
III Plein Jeu 183 (22-26-29)
Swell to Swell 16', 4'
PEDAL ORGAN
16' Bourdon 32
8' Flute 12
Great to Pedal 8'
Swell to Pedal 8', 4'
PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Balanced Swell Pedal
Crescendo Pedal
Sforzando
In 1965 Aeolian-Skinner made the 8' Spitzflute into a 4' and the 4' Nachthorn into a 2'.
Revoicing, and rescaling of the Spitzflute (which was originally in fact made to Flauto
Dolce -- a muted string -- scale in order to get round the lack of a string on the organ)
revoiced and rescaled two notes wider. This change was never a success. Ray Churchtown
attempted to reverse the change, using some of old Kilgen pipes for the missing bass
notes of the Spitzflute. The holes on the chest are about three times as big as the toes
of the pipe and wind escapes around the toes in profusion; furthermore the pipes were
constructed to speak at 6". Pipework altered and damaged in changes. Organ is now
approximately twice as loud as GDH intended.
Original wind pressure 3" (offsets on C# side 4.5" due to the difficulty of getting wind
to the location other than from static pressure). Pedal is still on 4". Eric Johnson and
Speller did some work on redishing and properly adjusting the primaries to get the Gr.
and Sw. down to 3.25". The pedal treble chest, however, doesn't have primaries (venting
directly through the magnets) and works so badly that the pressure has had to be kept high
to get the pedal to work at all. (John Speller)
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2016-07-10]
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