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Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. Opus 976 (1938)

Images

Unknown - Console (Photograph from an archival source: THE AMERICAN ORGANIST August 1939, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2010-12-05 - Cathedral exterior (Photograph by Ed Uthman, via commons.wikimedia.com, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2017-06-23 - Cathedral interior (Photograph by bayoucity360.com, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Unknown - Church Exterior (Vintage Postcard, courtesy of T. Bradford Willis, DDS (1910s)/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

• Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
• Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
• 3 manuals
• 51 stops
• 58 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)
• Has crescendo
• Combination action: Computerized/Digital
• 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 - Rebuild of Skinner Op. 976 -Database Manager

2005-09-19 - Online update from Randy Elkins -- Organ had some work done by Visser Rowland, Schoenstein and an antiphonal division added by Schantz. -Database Manager

2006-10-28 - Updated through online information from Bruce Power. -- New pipework is Schantz (an antiphonal organ) and John Hendrikson. -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>Altered in 1954 (976-A) and 1968 (976-B); renovated by Charles Moseley in 1968; Antiphonal division added by Schantz in 1992. [See Aeolian-Skinner Opus 3013 for Chapel organ]</i> -Database Manager

Documents

• (1938-04-11) Original Contract Documentation courtesy of the Organ Historical Society Archive -Roman Lizak
• Write-up from THE AMERICAN ORGANIST September 1939, p.4 Commentary and description -Jeff Scofield
• Write-up from THE AMERICAN ORGANIST September 1939, p.4 Commentary and description -Jeff Scofield
• Write-up from THE AMERICAN ORGANIST August 1939, p.3 Stoplist and description -Jeff Scofield
• Write-up from THE AMERICAN ORGANIST August 1939, p.2 Commentary and description -Jeff Scofield
• Write-up from THE AMERICAN ORGANIST August 1939, p.1 Commentary and description -Jeff Scofield
• (1939-05-01) Write-up from THE DIAPASON May 1939 Stoplist and description -Jeff Scofield

Websites

• Organs of Christ Church Cathedral - History, description, and stoplist. (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)
• Opus 976: Christ Church Cathedral - (Aeolian-Skinner Archives website) Stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

• #25574 - Charles Mosely (1968)
• #25573 - Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. Opus 976-B (1968)
• #25575 - Schantz Organ Co. Opus 1990 (1992)
• #41682 - John Hendriksen (1998)
• #65019 - Richard Houghten (2012)

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