Ernest M. Skinner Company
Opus 217, 1913
Alaska (Strand) Theatre
514 Second Avenue
Seattle, WA, US
21 Ranks - 1,296 Pipes
Instrument ID: 19502 ● Builder ID: 7401 ● Location ID: 17657
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Builder: Unknown
Position: Unknown
Design: Traditional With Roll Top
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Features:
3 Manuals (61 Notes)32 Note Pedal5 Divisions21 Stops24 RegistersElectrical Key ActionElectrical Stop Action✓ Crescendo✓ Combination Thumb Piston(s)✓ Coupler Toe Piston(s)✓ Sforzando Toe Piston(s)Stop Layout: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination Action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Control System: Unknown or N/A
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This instrument is: Not Extant and Not Playable in this location
Database Manager on June 4th, 2007:
Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- There are some discrepancies in the exact size and stats of this organ. The Aeolian-Skinner website and Alan Kinzey/Sand Lawn book both list the organ as 22 ranks and 1,296 pipes. Yet if you add-up the number of speaking stops, registers, ranks, and pipes presented on the A-S website, that's not accurate. By the stoplist given, the organ was 21 registers, 26 speaking stops (inc. chimes & harp), 21 ranks, and 1,408 pipes. Former Balcom and Vaughan President William J. Bunch recorded the organ as being 22 ranks, but the Echo division was 3-registers / 4-ranks, the Unda Maris being a 2-rank single register. If that is accurate, then the organ was 21 registers, 26 speaking stops, 22 ranks, and 1,469 pipes. When the organ was rebuilt as a 2-man. by Balcom and Vaughan in 1969, the Choir chest was sold to Richard Warburton of Skykomish, Washington for use in his home organ. The console was acquired by Tom Kaasa, and stored in a house on Green Lake Way in Seattle. It was later acquired by Jack and Mary Lou Becvar of Kent, Washington, and in 1998 it was purchase by Francis Riley. The Becvars have the original wooden 16' Dulciana on the ceiling of their home and playing as a part of their 3-man. Wurlitzer. Sources: A-S website; A-S book; PSTOS website.
Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- There are some discrepancies in the exact size and stats of this organ. The Aeolian-Skinner website and Alan Kinzey/Sand Lawn book both list the organ as 22 ranks and 1,296 pipes. Yet if you add-up the number of speaking stops, registers, ranks, and pipes presented on the A-S website, that's not accurate. By the stoplist given, the organ was 21 registers, 26 speaking stops (inc. chimes & harp), 21 ranks, and 1,408 pipes. Former Balcom and Vaughan President William J. Bunch recorded the organ as being 22 ranks, but the Echo division was 3-registers / 4-ranks, the Unda Maris being a 2-rank single register. If that is accurate, then the organ was 21 registers, 26 speaking stops, 22 ranks, and 1,469 pipes. When the organ was rebuilt as a 2-man. by Balcom and Vaughan in 1969, the Choir chest was sold to Richard Warburton of Skykomish, Washington for use in his home organ. The console was acquired by Tom Kaasa, and stored in a house on Green Lake Way in Seattle. It was later acquired by Jack and Mary Lou Becvar of Kent, Washington, and in 1998 it was purchase by Francis Riley. The Becvars have the original wooden 16' Dulciana on the ceiling of their home and playing as a part of their 3-man. Wurlitzer. Sources: A-S website; A-S book; PSTOS website.
Database Manager on May 2nd, 2007:
Updated through online information from Jams R. Stettner.
Database Manager on December 21st, 2005:
Updated through information adapted from <i>E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List</i>, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: <br><i>Moved to St. Paul's Church, Bellingham, Washington in 1931.</i>
Database Manager on October 2nd, 2005:
Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Relocated to St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Bellingham, WA.
Webpage Links: Opus 217: Alaska Theater , PSTOS - Alaska (Strand) Theatre, Seattle Washington , becvar_strand-dulciana-l.jpg
Related Instrument Entries: Balcom and Vaughan (1931) , Balcom and Vaughan Pipe Organs, Inc. (Opus 781R, 1969) , Marceau & Associates Pipe Organ Builders (Opus 7, 1991)
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