Better Pipe Organ Database

Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. Opus 1002 (1940)

Tanglewood: The Shed
297 West St.
Lenox, MA

Images

2014-07-01 - Building Interior, Stage, and Console (Photograph by Gary W. Smith, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2014-07-01 - Console (Photograph by Gary W. Smith, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2011-05-01 - Organ Power Room (Photograph courtesy of William F. Czelusniak/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Movable Console
2 manuals
24 stops
27 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
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 toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1998 -Database Manager

2007-05-07 - 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: First public use by E. Power Biggs on July 8, 1940; extant; mixtures revoiced by Ernest M. Skinner Co., Inc. in the 1970s. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist Source: From Allen Kinzey Date not recorded

Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Tanglewood - "The Shed"

Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co., Inc.   Opus 1002   1940
2 manuals, 27 registers, 24 stops, 33 ranks
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         GREAT (3½" wind)                      POSITIV (3½" wind)
     16' Quintaten           61             8' Nason Flute         61
      8' Principal           61             4' Koppelflöte         61
      8' Spitzflöte          61         2 2/3' Nazard              61
      4' Principal           61             2' Nachthorn           61
      4' Rohrflöte           61         1 3/5' Tierce              61
  2 2/3' Quint               61             1' Italian Principal   61
      2' Super Octave        61           III  Cymbel (29-33-36)  183
  III-V  Mixture (15-19-22) 245
                                               ENCLOSED POSITIV (5" wind)
         PEDAL (5" wind)                    8' English Salicional  61
     16' Geigen Principal    32             8' Gedackt             61
     16' Salicional          12 POS         4' Gemshorn            61
     16' Quintaten           GT             8' Trompette           61
      8' Spitzprincipal      32
      4' Nachthorn           32
     IV  Mixture            128
           (12-15-19-22)
     32' Bombarde             1 (low CCCC only)
     16' Posaune             32


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2017-07-16]

Documents

(1940-09-01) Write-up from THE DIAPASON September 1940 Stoplist and description -Jeff Scofield