Pipe Organ Database

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Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. (Opus 1446, 1964)

Location:

Macalester College
130 South Macalester Street
St. Paul, MN 55105 US
Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center
Organ ID: 35774

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Status and Condition:

  • This instrument's location type is: Colleges and Universities
  • The organ has been relocated.
  • The organ's condition is unknown.
We received the most recent update for this instrument's status from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.

Technical Details:

  • Chests: Electro-pneumatic (EP)
  • 59 ranks. 3,297 pipes. 5 divisions. 3 manuals. 43 stops. 54 registers.
All:
  • Chest Type(s): Electro-pneumatic (EP) chests
  • Position: Pipes exposed (in whole or in part) at the front of the room.
We received the most recent update for this division from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Main:
  • Manuals: 3
  • Divisions: 5
  • Stops: 43
  • Registers: 54
  • 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.
Database Manager on January 14, 2011:

Updated through online information from Richard C Greene. -- The 1964 Aeolian-Skinner organ in the Janet Wallace Auditorium was removed after years of neglect. It was purchased by Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN. The church hired Holtkamp Organ Company to rebuild and install it in their sanctuary.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Database Manager on February 09, 2009:

Updated through online information from Richard C Greene.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on August 12, 2018.
Database Manager on July 03, 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:
Extant; unaltered.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Source not recorded: Open In New Tab Stoplist courtesy of <i>The Aeolian-Skinner Archives</i>
We received the most recent update for this stoplist from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.

Instrument Images:

Pipe display at front of auditorium: Builder's ad photo in November 1966 The American Organist, Vol. 49, No. 11, pg. 5., courtesy of James R. Stettner.