Pipe Organ Database

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Skinner Organ Co. (Opus 656, 1927)

Location:

Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 8540 US
Chapel
Organ ID: 412

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Status and Condition:

  • This instrument's location type is: Colleges and Universities
  • 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 Database Manager on May 13, 2018.

Technical Details:

  • Chests: Electro-pneumatic (EP)
  • 99 ranks. 6,249 pipes. 4 manuals. 100 stops. 78 registers.
All:
  • Chest Type(s): Electro-pneumatic (EP) chests
We received the most recent update for this division from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Main:
  • Manuals: 4
  • Stops: 100
  • Registers: 78
  • Key Action: Electrical connection from key to chest.
We received the most recent update for this console from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Database Manager on April 18, 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:
G. Donald Harrison was largely responsible for scaling and voicing, especially chorus work, and took part in tonal finishing; installation of remote combination action, #656-A in 1928; Ralph Downes shifted some ranks ca. 1935; work on Swell chorus reeds and French Trumpet in 1948, #A-561; pipe substitution in Great, Positiv, Brustwerk, Pedal Mixture with Choir and Solo shades removed ca. 1952, also #656-A; Antiphonal added in 1954, #656-B; tonal changes in 1956-57 and 1968; Flentrop reeds added to Brustwerk, date unknown; replaced by N.P.Mander in 1991 reusing much original pipework on slider chests.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Database Manager on October 30, 2004:

G. Donald Harrison. Rebuilt 1954-56 by Aeolian-Skinner; Rebuilt 1991 by N. P. Mander using much A-S pipework on slider chests.

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

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