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J. Allen Farmer, Inc. (1995)

Biltmore Estate: Dining Room
One Approach Road
Asheville, NC

OHS convention: 2001

Images

2017-07-26 - Pipe Facade (Photograph by Tanner Gough/Database Manager)

2000-05-10 - Organ Bench (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2000-05-10 - Interior and Pipe Facade (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2000-05-10 - Console (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2000-05-10 - Close-up of Console (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2000-05-10 - Left Drawknobs (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2000-05-10 - Right Drawknobs (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2000-05-10 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2000-05-10 - Pipe Chamber (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

1895-04-19 - Sketch of Proposed Organ Case (Sketch by Richard Morris Harris; image courtesy of the Library of Congress/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
2 manuals
16 stops
31 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 (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Has combination thumb pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - The original builder was Skinner Organ Co. (Opus 248, 1916). -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 2001 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Relocated from Presbyterian Church, Bedford, NY. Installed behind a case built by Hutchings in 1897, with no organ behind it. No mechanical alteration, but reconfigured for the space. Façade pipes made to speak. Console roll player. -Database Manager

2005-12-22 - 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: Restoration and relocation of E. M. Skinner Opus 248 (1916). -Database Manager

2008-08-20 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

2012-02-03 - Updated through online information from Stephen Hall. -- The elaborate case sketched by Richard Morris Hunt was never constructed, the Pedal 16 Open Metal Diapason is arranged as three unencased towers with four flats behind them. There is some elegant cabinetry below the pipes but no case work around the pipes. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Specification from OHS Handbook, 2001 Convention Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Asheville, North Carolina
Biltmore Estate

The Ernest M. Skinner Co.   Opus 248   1916       2 manuals, 16 stops, 16 ranks
Relocated from Presbyterian Church, Bedford, New York
Installed by J. Allen Farmer, 1995-1999
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          GREAT ORGAN (enclosed)                 SWELL ORGAN (duplexed from GT)
       8' First Diapason       61             8' First Diapason
       8' Concert Flute        61             8' Concert Flute
       8' Salicional           61             8' Salicional
       8' Voix Celestes        61             8' Voix Celestes
       8' Spitz Floete         61             8' Spitz Floete
       8' Flute Celeste (TC)   49             8' Flute Celeste (TC)
       4' Octave               61             4' Octave
       4' Flute                61             4' Flute
       8' Cornopean            61             8' Cornopean
       8' French Horn          61             8' French Horn
       8' Flügel Horn          61             8' Flügel Horn
       8' Clarinet             61             8' Clarinet
       8' Vox Humana           61             8' Vox Humana
          Tremolo                                Chimes
       8' Celesta Sub (TC)     --                Tremolo
       4' Celesta              61 bars

          PEDAL ORGAN                            COUPLERS
      16' Diapason             32                Great to Pedal
      16' Bourdon              32                Swell to Pedal
      16' Lieblich Gedeckt     32                Swell to Pedal 4'
       8' Gedeckt              12                Swell to Great
       8' Still Gedeckt        12                Swell 16'
                                                 Swell 4'
          COMBINATION ACTION                     Swell to Great 16'
          Swell    1-2-3-4                       Swell to Great 4'
          Great    1-2-3-4
          Pedal    1-2-3
          Combination Set


[Received from Rollie A. Jones  2012-12-25]

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