Skinner Organ Co.
Opus 839, 1931
Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church
1316 Park Avenue
Baltimore, MD, US
45 Ranks - 2,856 Pipes
Instrument ID: 7297 ● Builder ID: 7374 ● Location ID: 6911
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STOPLISTS
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CONSOLES
Builder: Unknown
Position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
Design: Traditional With Roll Top
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Features:
4 Manuals (61 Notes)32 Note Pedal5 Divisions40 Stops46 RegistersElectrical Key ActionElectrical Stop Action✓ Sequencer✓ Combination 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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DETAILS
This instrument is: Extant and Playable in this location
Updated through online information from Paul Marchesano. -- Adding the pipe count on the detailed specification available form the church's website, the pipe count is 2856. There are 61 struck bars on the Harp + Celesta.
Database Manager on July 5th, 2010:
Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- According to the Wikipedia article about the church/organ: "The 4-manual Ernest M. Skinner pipe organ has 2,939 pipes and remains essentially the same today as when it was installed in 1931 and tonally finished by G. Donald Harrison, as Skinner's opus 839. The organ underwent a complete restoration between 2002–2005, with all original 45 ranks of the instrument fully preserved. A 99-memory level Capture System was added to the organ in 2005."
Database Manager on May 16th, 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:
Replaced 1889 three manual Steere & Turner, #296; tonally unaltered; some mechanical restoration begun by Columbia Organ Works in 1987; work ongoing.
Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
Status Note: There 1996
Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
Tonally unaltered in 1987. Some work by Jim Akright. Some mechanical restoration begun by Columbia Organ Works in 1987. [Replaced an 1889 3m. Steere & Turner Op. 296.]
Webpage Links: Opus 839: Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church , :::::BROWN MEMORIAL PARK AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH::::: Organ
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