Pipe Organ Database

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Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. (Opus A-611, 1959)

Originally Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. (Opus 1308, 1955)

Location:

St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral
908 Rutherford Street
Shreveport, LA 71104 US
Cathedral
Organ ID: 35583

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Status and Condition:

  • This instrument's location type is: Episcopal and Anglican Churches
  • The organ has been altered from its original state.
  • The organ's condition is unknown.
We received the most recent update for this instrument's status from Paul R. Marchesano on January 22, 2021.

Technical Details:

  • Chests: Information unknown or not applicable
  • 4 manuals.
All:
  • Position: In side chambers at the front of the room. Facade pipes or case front visible.
We received the most recent update for this division from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Main:
  • Manuals: 4
  • Position: Console on lift.
  • Key Action: Electrical connection from key to chest.
  • Stop Action: Electric connection between stop control and chest.
  • Console Style: Traditional style with roll top.
  • Stop Controls: Drawknobs in vertical rows on flat jambs.
  • Swell Control Type: Balanced swell shoes/pedals, AGO standard placement.
  • Pedalboard Type: Flat radiating pedalboard.
  • Has Crescendo Pedal
  • Has Tutti Reversible Thumb Pistons
  • Has Combination Action Thumb Pistons
  • Has Combination Action Toe Pistons
  • Has a Piston Sequencer
We received the most recent update for this console from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Database Manager on February 18, 2017:

Updated by Field Baber, who has heard or played the organ.
The gallery organ has recently fallen silent. There was a power surge at 1:00 one Sunday afternoon while the organ was on. This fried the mother board in the main organ. So we took the powers supply from the balcony console that controls the gallery great gallery solo and gallery choir and placed it in the main console. However the gallery organ was having what we like to call an "organ fart." This is a problem that occurred every so often. What would happen is that all the valves in the gallery organ would open and every single pipe up there would play.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Database Manager on June 28, 2008:

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:
Addition of Mixture to Aeolian-Skinner Opus 1308/1308-A.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Taken from console: Open In New Tab Current stoplist with notations and dates of additions
We received the most recent update for this stoplist from Paul R. Marchesano on January 29, 2021.

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