Skinner Organ Co.
Opus 679, 1927

St. John's Episcopal Church

1105 Quarrier Street
Charleston, WV, US

27 Ranks - 1,554 Pipes
Instrument ID: 7012 ● Builder ID: 7374 ● Location ID: 6647
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Builder: Unknown
Position: Movable Console
Design: Traditional With Roll Top
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Features:
3 Manuals (61 Notes)32 Note Pedal5 Divisions21 Stops29 RegistersElectrical Key ActionElectrical Stop Action✓ Sequencer✓ 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

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This instrument is: Extant and Playable in this location

Database Manager on September 28th, 2012:
Updated through online information from Daniel Faber. Restored in 2019. New solid-state switching, refurbishment of manual and pedal claviers, refurbishment of offset chests, all pipework cleaned, refurbished, and voiced. Three ranks added: a Grave Mixture II to the Great (new pipework) and a 4' Principal to the Swell (vintage A-S pipework). Bottom octave of Swell Geigen 8 replaced. All work was performed by John Muller of Muller Pipe Organ Company, Croton Ohio

Database Manager on April 21st, 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: <br><i>Replaced a two manual tracker which had been tubularized and rebuilt by Reuben Midmer & Son; built in Westfield; some alterations by Lewis & Hitchcock in 1968; planned restoration by Samuel Koontz in 1992; due to death of Koontz, restoration completed by Columbia Organ Works in 1995 with additions using pipework from #415, #417, #429, #434 and #602.</i>

Database Manager on February 21st, 2005:
Information from http://www.columbiaorgan.com/cow/charles.html in 2004.

Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
Status Note: There 1996.

Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
Removed from church 1991. Retrieved from deceased organ builder's shop 1993. Reinstalled 1995 by Columbia Organ Works with additions & microprocessor-controlled combination action and switching. Historical Organ Recital 9 Feb 1996.

Webpage Links: Opus 679: St. John's Episcopal Church

Related Instrument Entries: Lewis & Hitchcock, Inc. (1968)

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