Better Pipe Organ Database

Ernest M. Skinner Company Opus 282 (1917)

St. Philip's Episcopal Church
12 Hodge Street
Wiscasset, ME

Images

2017-12-04 - Side of Organ case (Photograph by Wayne Johnson/Wayne Johnson)

2017-12-04 - Organ case (Photograph by Wayne Johnson/Wayne Johnson)

2017-12-04 - Builder's nameplate (Photograph by Wayne Johnson/Wayne Johnson)

2017-12-04 - Pedal and Swell drawknobs (Photograph by Wayne Johnson/Wayne Johnson)

2017-12-04 - Great drawknobs (Photograph by Wayne Johnson/Wayne Johnson)

2017-12-04 - Organ case and keydesk (Photograph by Wayne Johnson/Wayne Johnson)

Unknown - Organ Case (Photograph by Wayne Johnson (December 2017)/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
2 manuals
7 stops
11 registers
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 (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Blind Action
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 2002. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Restoration and remedial tonal finishing in 2002 by Spence Organ Co. -Database Manager

2005-12-23 - 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: Extant; unaltered; attached console. -Database Manager

2011-09-15 - Updated through online information from Michael Smith. -- The parish is very proud of the instrument and understands its value. I'm told some renovation work was done relatively recently by "a firm in Boston", name not known. At some point (perhaps during that work?) the keytops were apparently replaced with a rather nasty plastic compound. The church is a very pretty small room, somewhat marred from the musical point of view by an abundance of thick carpeting. The instrument has a very nice robust sound and it's surprisingly versatile for such a small instrument. Each manual has three preset buttons below the keys, labeled 1-3, and a preset cancel, labeled '0'. There appears to be no way to change these, and the presets do not operate the stop knobs, so you can't remove a stop from a preset combination once it's on; the preset cancel is your only recourse. Preset cancel also does not cancel any stops you may have manually drawn. According to a plaque on the case, the organ was given as a memorial to a young man killed in 1916 while serving as an ambulance driver during the first world war. -Database Manager

2018-08-14 - Updated by James Swist, who has heard or played the organ. \r\nThe \"firm in Boston\" is the Spencer Organ Co. There is no Crescendo pedal. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from Carl Schwartz Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Wiscasset, Maine
St. Philip's Episcopal Church

Skinner Organ Company   Opus 282   1917
2 manuals, 11 registers, 7 stops, 7 ranks
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      GREAT ORGAN
   8' Diapason            61 (unenclosed)
   8' Dulciana            SW
   8' Gedeckt             SW
   4' Flute               SW
 
      SWELL ORGAN
   8' Gedeckt             61
   8' Salicional          61
   8' Dulciana            61
   8' Unda Maris (TC)     49
   4' Flute               61
      Tremolo
 
      PEDAL ORGAN
  16' Bourdon             32
   8' Flute               12

      COUPLERS
      Swell to Pedal
      Great to Pedal
      Swell to Great
      Swell 16'
      Swell 4'
      Swell to Great 16'
      Swell to Great 4'

      PEDAL MOVEMENTS
      Balanced Swell Pedal
      Crescendo Pedal
      Great to Pedal Reversible


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2016-07-09]

Websites

Opus 282: St. Philip's Episcopal Church - (Aeolian-Skinner Archives website) Specification (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)