Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co.
Opus 1196-B, 1959

4 Manuals (61 Notes)32 Note Pedal7 Divisions70 Stops81 RegistersElectrical Key ActionElectrical Stop Action✓ Crescendo✓ 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: Remote Pneumatic/Mechanical Capture

Control System: Unknown or N/A

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This instrument is: Extant and Playable in this location

Database Manager on November 16th, 2016:

Contract signed in 1949, but the organ was stored after completion untilr the sanctuary was completed in 1953; two stops added in 1954 as Op. 1196-A. Antiphonal and Hooded Trumpet added in 1959 as Op. 1196-B; in 1975, Schlicker installed a new 36-rank gallery organ and a new 4-manual rocker-tablet console in the chancel controlling both organs; renovated by David Nelms and the Mid-Atlantic Organ Co. 2003-2004 with a new 5-manual Turner console.

Database Manager on May 23rd, 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:
Addition of Antiphonal to Opus 1196-A; Great revoiced by AEolian-Skinner in 1962.

Webpage Links: Opus 1196: Covenant Presbyterian Church