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Buzard Pipe Organ Builders

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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 Pedal4 Divisions33 Stops38 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)✓ Hitchdown Coupler(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 October 6th, 2007:

Updated through online information from Stephen Hall. -- Console was renovated by John-Paul Buzard in 2003. New solid state components, refinished wood, retained original key boards and draw knobs. New draw knobs added in preparation for additional stops.


Database Manager on March 6th, 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:
E. M Skinner Opus 521 (1925), relocated from University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois.


Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:

Status Note: There 1996.


Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:

Relocated from Smith Memorial Building, Univ. of IL, Urbana, IL (c. 1966?).

Webpage Links: John-Paul Buzard Pipe Organ Builders: 1925 Skinner Op. 521 Restoration

Related Instrument Entries: Skinner Organ Co. (Opus 521, 1925)

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