Pipe Organ Database

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Skinner Organ Co. (Opus 718, 1928)

Location:

Residence: Charles E. Bedaux, 'Château de Candé'
Monts, Indre-et-Loire, FR
Library
Organ ID: 23482

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Status and Condition:

  • This instrument's location type is: Private Residences
  • The organ has been restored to a previous state.
  • The organ's condition is good, used occasionally.
We received the most recent update for this instrument's status from Paul R. Marchesano on March 27, 2023.

Technical Details:

  • Chests: EP pitman
  • 27 ranks. 1,885 pipes. 3 manuals. 24 stops. 48 registers.
All:
  • Chest Type(s): EP pitman chests
We received the most recent update for this division from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Main:
  • Manuals: 3
  • Stops: 24
  • Registers: 48
  • Position: Console in fixed position, right.
  • Manual Compass: 61
  • Pedal Compass: 32
  • Key Action: Electrical connection from key to chest.
  • Console Style: Traditional style with roll top.
  • Stop Controls: Drawknobs in vertical rows on angled jambs.
  • Combination Action: Adjustable combination pistons.
  • Swell Control Type: Balanced swell shoes/pedals, AGO standard placement.
  • Pedalboard Type: Concave radiating pedalboard meeting AGO Standards.
  • Has Combination Action Thumb Pistons
  • Has Combination Action Toe Pistons
We received the most recent update for this console from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Database Manager on February 20, 2014:

Updated through online information from Julien Girard. -- Restored by Nicolas Toussaint, with the precious Help of Thompson-Allen Organ Co

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Database Manager on May 08, 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:
With player attachment; this organ was played at the wedding of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor by Marcel Dupré; now derelict: property of Department de l'Indre & Loire. (1977).

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on February 11, 2019.
Source not recorded: Open In New Tab Stoplist from Shop Notes in The American Classic Organ "A History in Letters" by Charles Callahan
We received the most recent update for this stoplist from Paul R. Marchesano on March 27, 2023.

Instrument Images:

Console: Photograph by Simon Brand. Taken on 2014-04-17

Console: Photograph by Simon Brand. Taken on 2014-04-17

Coupler Drawknobs and Roll Player: Photograph by Simon Brand. Taken on 2014-04-17

Back of Console: Photograph by Simon Brand. Taken on 2014-04-17

Pipework: Photograph by Simon Brand. Taken on 2014-04-17

Console: Photograph by Julien Girard. Taken on 2017-05-24

Swell Pipework: Photograph by Julien Girard. Taken on 2016-12-19

Left Stop Jamb: Photograph by Julien Girard. Taken on 2016-12-19

Great Pipework: Photograph by Julien Girard. Taken on 2016-12-19

View of console and chamber fronts: Photograph from an archival source: ExperienceLoire.com, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano. Taken approx. c. 2006