Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co.
Opus 1122, 1947
First Evangelical Lutheran Church
1401 12th Avenue
Altoona, PA, US
31 Ranks - 1,971 Pipes
Instrument ID: 34666 ● Builder ID: 52 ● Location ID: 30741
⬆️ These are database IDs that may change. Don't use as academic reference.EXPLORE IMAGESVIEW STOPLISTSomething not quite correct?Suggest an Edit
Plenum Organ Company
🤝 Instrument entries in Pennsylvania sponsored by:
We are grateful for the generous support of our sponsors, who make it possible for us to continue our mission of preserving and promoting the rich history of pipe organs across the globe.
IMAGES
Something missing or not quite correct?Add ImageorSuggest an Edit
STOPLISTS
Something missing or not quite correct?Add StoplistorSuggest an Edit
CONSOLES
Builder: Unknown
Position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
Design: Traditional With Roll Top
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Features:
3 Manuals (61 Notes)32 Note Pedal29 Stops35 RegistersElectrical Key ActionElectrical Stop Action✓ Combination Thumb Piston(s)✓ Combination Toe Piston(s)✓ Coupler Thumb Piston(s)✓ Coupler Toe Piston(s)✓ Sforzando Thumb 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: Computerized/Digital
Control System: Unknown or N/A
Something missing or not quite correct?Add ConsoleorSuggest an Edit
DETAILS
This instrument is: Extant and Playable in this location
Updated through online information from Claude Fabinyi.
Organ experienced electrical problems following a lightning strike during the Summer of 2015. Emery Brothers Organ Company has since repaired the damages and the organ is in 100% working order.
Database Manager on August 10th, 2015:
Updated through online information from Claude R Fabinyi. -- Information gathered from current organist, myself -- wonderful instrument
Database Manager on July 24th, 2015:
Updated through online information from Steven Ickes.
Database Manager on November 21st, 2008:
Updated through online information from Steven Ickes. -- Twelfth added to Great by Fritzsche, mid-1980s. Restoration by Emery Brothers, Doylestown, PA, following 9/11/1997 church fire; SSL control system added for combinations/levels of memory; console relocated to center rear of chancel; 16' Trombone in Pedal melted in fire, refabricated by A.R. Schopp's Sons to Aeolian-Skinner scaling. Instrument returned to service 10/15/2000.
Database Manager on May 19th, 2008:
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; unaltered.
Webpage Links: Opus 1122: First Lutheran Church
Something missing or not quite correct?Add NoteorAdd WebpageorAdd Cross ReferenceorSuggest an Edit