Skinner Organ Co.
Opus 720, 1928

First Presbyterian Church

Sanctuary

111 Capital Ave. NE
Battle Creek, MI, US

33 Ranks - 2,147 Pipes
Instrument ID: 7107 ● Builder ID: 7374 ● Location ID: 6733
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Builder: Unknown
Position: Unknown
Design: Traditional With Roll Top
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Features:
3 Manuals (61 Notes)32 Note Pedal5 Divisions29 Stops33 RegistersElectrical Key ActionElectrical Stop Action✓ Crescendo✓ Combination Thumb Piston(s)✓ Combination Toe 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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This instrument is: Not Extant and Not Playable in this location

Database Manager on August 21st, 2010:

Updated through online information from Chad Boorsma. -- The first changes to the organ were in the 1950's when pipes salvaged from a local Johnson organ replaced several ranks. The work in the 1960's was by Casavant when the Great Mixture was added, and the entire Choir division was replaced except for the Clarinet. Today, nine stops on the Dobson organ have pipes from the original Skinner organ.


Database Manager on May 8th, 2006:

Updated 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:
Badly altered in 1960s by amateurs with supply house console in 1965; rebuilt by George Price in 1979; chests and console offered for sale in 1994; replaced by Dobson retaining some seven ranks.


Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:

Status Note: There 1995.


Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:

Altered & new supply house console 1960's by amateurs. Rebuilt by George Price in 1979. Rebuild by Dobson, 1994 with alterations.

Webpage Links: Opus 720: First Presbyterian Church

Related Instrument Entries: Dobson Pipe Organ Builders (1994) , Casavant Frères Ltée. (1960s) , George B. Price (1979)

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