Skinner Organ Co.
Opus 788, 1929
St. Thomas Episcopal Church
16 E. Van Buren Street
Battle Creek, MI, US
16 Ranks - 1,067 Pipes
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CONSOLES
Builder: Unknown
Position: Movable Console
Design: Traditional With Roll Top
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
Features:
2 Manuals (61 Notes)32 Note Pedal4 Divisions14 Stops21 RegistersElectrical Key ActionElectrical Stop ActionCrescendoCombination Thumb Piston(s)Combination Toe Piston(s)Coupler Thumb Piston(s)Coupler Toe Piston(s)Sforzando Toe Piston(s)Stop Layout: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination Action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Control System: Unknown or N/A
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DETAILS
This instrument is: ExtantandPlayable in this location
The instrument was contracted through the Chicago Representative Mr. William Zeuch. The two rank Echo division in the back was paid for by Mr. W. K. Kellogg of Battle Creek for the sum of $2,500.00.
Database Manager on June 28th, 2017:
Updated by John Speller, who has heard or played the organ.
Old photographs in church show that the casework was retained from the previous organ -- Wm. Johnson & Son Op. 524 of 1879, though the facade pipes have lost their stencils and are now bronzed.
Database Manager on August 19th, 2010:
Updated through online information from Chad Boorsma. -- Ken Holden made the console movable. Also, a light has been added to the music rack. Otherwise the instrument is original as installed in 1929. The Echo division speaks from the northeast side of the gallery.
Database Manager on May 10th, 2006:
Identified 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; slightly altered; console moved.
Webpage Links: Opus 788: St. Thomas Episcopal Church
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