Database Manager on August 8th, 2012:
Organ in regular use.
Database Manager on March 29th, 2010:
Updated through online information from Robert Rodman. -- A thrilling organ to listen to and sing with.
Database Manager on May 18th, 2009:
Updated through information from Kerry Johnston. -- The original four-manual console was purchased by First United Methodist Church, Springdale, AR, in 2005 from R. A. Colby Company of Johnson City, TN. The console was rebuilt by Range Organ Company of Mesquite, TX, and installed in FUMC in September of 2005.
Database Manager on November 11th, 2008:
Updated through on-line information from Samuel Lam. -- The organ now has 76 pipe ranks and 26 sampled ranks provided by Walker Technical Company for a total equivalent of 102 ranks. A new console by Roger Colby Co. was provided in 1997. There are 7 divisions spread over 4 manuals and pedal.
Database Manager on June 28th, 2008:
Updated through online information from John McCreary, Canon Organist Emeritus. -- I personally added two stops and built the chests for them: An EMS Vox Humana from a residence organ in Washington DC, and a Rohrflute, borrowed from the Great and placed in the Choir. I put an 8' Harmonic Flute where the Rohrflute was on the Great. Balcom and Vaughan added an the following EMS stops from All Souls Unitarian In Washington, DC: French Horn, English Horn, Orchestral Oboe. In the mid 90s, Bob Walker added a complete Solo division, a Grande Choeur, additions to the Swell, Choir Pedal and Antiphonal. -- Swell, Choir and Solo have 68 note chests
Database Manager on October 28th, 2006:
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:
<i>Replaced 1912 Hillgreen, Lane, #312; minor tonal changes by Terrence Schoenstein and John McCreary; four E. M. Skinner reeds added and console replaced by Colby; extant; Aeolian-Skinner console for sale in 1994.</i>