Special on the Skinner Organ, Part 1

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Comment by James Russell Brown on August 15, 2008 at 1:36pm

FINAL VERSION... I promise! Thanks.


Music Institute of Chicago
Evanston, Illinois

Organ built by Ernest M. Skinner Company, Boston, Massachusetts
Opus 208 (completed June 1, 1914)

Complete historic restoration (2005-2007)
Jeff Weiler, Pipe Organ Curators and Conservators, Chicago, Illinois

Three manuals and pedal 61/30
25 ranks, 1569 pipes, 37 drawknobs

Great Organ
Bourdon 16’ (Ped 1st Bourdon-61 notes)
Diapason 8’ (68 pipes)
Philomela 8’ (Pedal Diapason)
Erzähler 8’ (68 pipes)
Gedackt 8’ (Swell)
Dulciana 8’ (Swell Aeoline)
Octave 4’* (61 pipes)
Flute 4' (Swell)
Twelfth 2 2/3’* (61 pipes)
Fifteenth 2’* (61 pipes)
Cornopean 8’ (Swell)

* added in the 1930s

Swell Organ (enclosed)
Bourdon 16’ (68 pipes)
Diapason 8’ (68 pipes)
Gedackt 8’ (68 pipes)
Salicional 8’ (68 pipes)
Voix Celestes 8’ (68 pipes)
Aeoline 8’ (68 pipes)
Unda Maris 8’ (56 pipes-Ten. C)
Octave 4’ (68 pipes)
Flute 4’ (68 pipes) .
Flautino 2’ (61 pipes)
Posaune 16’ (68 pipes)
Cornopean 8’ (68 pipes)
Flűgelhorn 8’ (68 pipes)
Vox Humana 8’ (68 pipes) ’
Tremolo

Choir Organ (enclosed)
Geigen Principal 8’ (61 pipes)
Concert Flute 8’ (61 pipes)
Flute 4’ (61 pipes)
Clarinet 8’ (61 pipes)
Tremolo

Pedal Organ
Diapason 16’ (73 pipes)
First Bourdon 16’(61 pipes)
Second Bourdon 16’(Swell)
Octave 8’ (Diapason extension)
Stillgedackt 8’ (Swell)
Posaune 16’ (Swell)

Couplers
Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal
Choir to Pedal
Swell to Pedal 4’
Swell to Great
Choir to Great
Swell to Choir .
Swell to Swell 16’
Swell to Swell 4’
Swell to Great 16’
Swell to Great 4’
Great to Great 4’
Choir to Great 16’

Pistons
5 Swell
4 Great
4 Choir
4 Pedal
Set

Gt to Ped Rev.
Sforzando Rev.

Choir Expression
Swell Expression
Crescendo

Sw,Gt,Ch to Ped/Comb

Comment by rohrwerk on August 11, 2008 at 6:13pm

I have three questions...
1) Where's the stoplist?
2) Where's the stoplist?
3) Where's the stoplist?
Thanks.