Pipe Organ Database

Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. (Opus 615-A/B, 1955)

Location:

Wesley Methodist Church
114 Main Street
Worcester, MA 01608 US
Organ ID: 23286

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Status and Condition:

This instrument's location type is: Methodist Churches
The organ has been altered from its original state.
The organ's condition is good, in regular use.

We received the most recent update for this instrument's status from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.

Technical Details:

Chests: EP pitman
70 ranks. 4,481 pipes. 4 manuals. 57 stops. 69 registers.

Divisions

All:

Chest Type(s): EP pitman chests

We received the most recent update for this division from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.

Consoles

Main:

Manuals: 4
Stops: 57
Registers: 69
Manual Compass: 61
Pedal Compass: 32
Key Action: Electrical connection from key to chest.
Stop Action: Electric connection between stop control and chest.

We received the most recent update for this console from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.

Notes

Database Manager on October 17, 2011:

Updated through online information from John Elwood.  -- From Czelusniak et Dugal website:  "2001, in Worcester, MA, the firm rebuilt the 4-manual, 1926 Skinner Organ Co. drawknob console for Wesley United Methodist Church, installing state-of-the-art operating components inside, while striving to restore and maintain all original controls, construction, and appearance outside."

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.

Database Manager on April 15, 2006:

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: 
 Rebuild of E. M. Skinner Opus 615 (1926).

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.