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Central Presbyterian Church
Louisville, Kentucky
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Boston, Mass Opus 776, built in 1930 The instrument is composed of 40 ranks (sets) of pipes and is placed in the chambers on either side of the chancel and in the balcony at the rear of the sanctuary. It is the only Skinner pipe organ in Louisville. This organ is especially noteworthy for having many of the signature E.M. Skinner stops: From Wikpedia: "This ease that brought "The King of Instruments" under the complete control of the organist was coupled with Skinner's life-long interest and obsession with orchestral color and its application to the pipe organ. The first of his new stops, the Erzahler, appeared in 1904 soon joined by other exotic tonal colors between 1908 and 1924 including an Orchestral Oboe, English Horn, Corno di Bassetto, Flugel Horn and Heckelphone that were all very true to their orchestral counterparts. In addition to his orchestral color reeds, Skinner also developed and perfected numerous string and hybrid flue stops, many with matching celestes of uncommon beauty. Among these were the usual Salicional/Voix Celeste and Dulciana/Unda Maris present in the Swell and Choir divisions of many American organs of the era but also his ethereal Flauto Dolce/Flute Celeste, his Dulcet (a pair of very narrow scaled string ranks tuned with a fast beat to heighten the intensity), a pair of inverted-flare Gambas found in the Solo divisions of many of his larger organs that allowed a rich, 'cello-like timbre for solo lines in the Tenor range, the Kleine Erzahler, a softer, brighter version his earlier Erzahler as well as Pedal Violones at 32' and 16' pitches which he defined as "subtle, soft string stops." Yet with all these developments, Skinner is still best known for his French Horn - his only sonic creation that he actually patented." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_M._Skinner Original specification can be found at: http://aeolian-skinner.110mb.com/Specs/Op00776.html |
| Pedal | Swell | Great | Choir | Echo |
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| 32' Bourdon Resultant 16' Diapason 16' Bourdon 16' Echo Lieblich (sw) 10 2/3' Quinte 8' Octave 8' Gedeckt 8' Still Gedeckt (sw) 16' Trombone 8' Tromba 4' Clarion Chimes | 16' Bourdon 8' Diapason 8' Salicional 8' Rohrflute 8' Flute Celeste II 8' Vox Celeste 4' Octave 4' Flute Triangulare Mixture III 16' Waldhorn 8' Cornopean 8' Oboe 8' Vox Humana 4' Clarion 16' Swell to Swell Swell Unison Off 4' Swell to Swell Tremolo | 16' Erzhaler 8' First Diapason 8' Second Diapason 8' Principal Flute 8' Erzhaler 4' Octave Principal Grave Mixture II 8' French Horn (ch) 8' Tromba (ch) 4' Great to Great 16' Great to Great Great Unison Off Tremolo Reeds (ch) Chimes | 8' Gamba 8' Dulciana 8' Concert Flute 8' Unda Maris 4' Flute Harmonic 2 2/3' Nazard 8' Clarinet 8' English Horn 8' Tromba 16' Choir to Choir 4' Choir to Choir Choir Unison Off Tremolo Chimes Harp Celesta | 8' Chimney Flute 8' Unda Maris II 8' Vox Humana Tremolo 4' Echo to Echo 2' Echo to Echo Tremolo |
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Rejoice the Lord Is King
performed at Central Presbyterian Church
May 27, 2007
Note the French Horn stop used in the first verse, capturing the "bubble" of the horn as the orchestral french horn sounds when played.
E.M. Skinner developed this stop after hearing a french horn in concert.
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