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Orgue Letourneou Opus 81 Orgue Letourneou Opus 82 Episcopal Church of the Ascension Clearwater, FL
"We are nearing the completion of our new Letourneau Pipe organ here in Clearwater, Florida. A slide show of the organ is on the church web page." (Click here to view Slideshow.) |
Hillgreen-Lane 1961 THE CHRIST CHAPEL ORGAN Other organs Gustavus Adolphus College St. Peter, MN
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Klais Organ Saint Peter's Church New York, NY |
Beckerath Organ First Congregational Church Columbus, OH
- G. Dene Barnard, organist |
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E.M.Skinner Organ, Op.583 High Street Congregational Church Auburn, Maine
"The Organ at High Street Congregational Church was built by the E.M.Skinner Organ Company as their Op.583 in 1926 for a church in Malden, Massachusetts. Additional tonal alterations were made in 1972. In 1986 the organ was moved to a private home in Florida. It was moved to Maine to be installed in High Street's new sanctuary, rebuilt after a fire destroyed the original church in 1985. Within a few months of its installation at High Street, two new stops were added: A Nazard and a three rank Octave Chorus, with the work on the organ and its new case completed in 1992 by David Wallace, pipe-organ builder from Gorham, Maine." |
The Great Organ St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue New York, NY
"The Great Organ of Saint Thomas Church was built in 1913 by the Ernest M. Skinner Organ Company of Boston and installed when the present building was first used for services that year. It was extensively revised and rebuilt in 1956 by the Aeolian-Skinner Organ Company, also of Boston, under the personal direction of the late G. Donald Harrison. Further revision of the instrument was completed in the late sixties by Gilbert Adams of New York, and in the early eighties by Mann and Trupiano of Brooklyn." |
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Taylor and Boody Opus 37 St. Mark's Lutheran Church San Francisco, CA, USA
"A new 24-stop organ is being built for St. Mark's by Taylor and Boody Organbuilders of Virginia. The organ will be the first instrument to be installed in the western United States by this firm, which built the magnificent organ at St. Thomas Church on Fifth Avenue in New York." |
Fisk Organ Opus 119 First Presbyterian Church of Gainesville, Florida
"Fisk has done a superb job of wedding the organ to the room. At least from
the balcony, the organ is not too loud. When it needs to fill the room, it
does, but not in an excessive way. |
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Fritsch Memorial Casavant Organ Siebert Chapel Carthage College Kenosha, Wisconsin |
Levsen Organ Opus 19 St. Mark's Lutheran Church North St. Paul, Minnesota - Robert Murphy Director of Music St. Mark's Lutheran Church North St. Paul, MN, USA |
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Taylor and Boody - Opus 19 Christ Church Episcopal Cathedral Indianapolis, Indiana
The T & B at Christ Church Cathedral is very high in the nave, close to the ceiling ... to get to the organ, one must go up to a mezzanine type lower gallery, then through a (locked) door into the bell tower, up a spiral staircase to the loft. Once there, one doesn't have much room. The instrument & acoustics are extremely wonderful, although large feet don't appreciate the flat pedalboard! The Clarine reed is right above the console, and is incredibly loud - my page turner was right under it & I forgot to warn her in advance :o) |
George Jardine & Son organ St. Matthew Trinity Lutheran Parish Hoboken, New Jersey
"St. Matthew Trinity Lutheran Parish, Hoboken, NJ, is fortunate to be celebrating the 125th anniversary of their George Jardine & Son tracker. |
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The Bach Organ Christ the King Lutheran Church Houston, Texas
"From the outset, the design concept of the organ at Christ the King Lutheran Church was simple and uncompromising -- to build an instrument on which to play the works of Johann Sebastian Bach." -from the Christ the King Lutheran Church website |
Brombaugh Opus 20 St. John's Presbyterian Church Berkeley, California
"This is the 1979 Brombaugh organ at St John's Presbyterian in Berkeley, CA, where I have been organist/director since 1984. It is a fraternal twin instrument to the one in Tacoma, WA, and an identical twin to the one in Storrs, CT."
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Opus 13 Bedford Presbyterian Church Bedford, New York Stop List Pasi Organbuilders, Inc.
2 manuals and pedal, 29 stops. See photographs of the new organ installed in the workshop and in its home in New York. Completed February 2001.
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Boston Music Hall Organ Methuen Memorial Music Hall Methuen, Massachusetts Stop List E. F. Walcher and Company Opus 200, 1863 Aoelian - Skinner Organ Company, Inc. Opus 1103, 1947
"Few instruments in the history of American organ building have had as long or as distinguished a career as the Boston Music Hall Organ. The first concert organ in the country, it remains today one of the outstanding organs in America." |
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Opus 29 St. Luke's Episcopal Church San Antonio, Texas Organ Specifications Visser & Associates Inc.
The St. Luke's Organ The Great Organ at St. Luke's Church is a 4-manual, 71-rank instrument built by Visser-Rowland Associates of Houston, Texas, in 1982. The tonal scheme of the organ is adapted from Dutch organs of the mid-eighteenth century. Such a design calls for firm, bright principal tone, flutes which sound clear and deep, harmonious reed stops, and many incisive high-pitched stops that reinforce rather than obscure the foundation tone. The tone blends well with voices and other instruments; most importantly, it excels in leading congregational singing and the accompaniment of the Anglican liturgy. |
Kotzschmar Memorial Organ Merrill Auditorium, City Hall Portland, Maine
"The Kotzschmar Memorial Organ (Austin Organs opus 323) (98/V) in Merrill Auditorium, City Hall, Portland, Maine is America's first Municipal Organ. The organ is in loving care of the Friends of the Kotzschmar who present a weekly summer series of classics and pops concerts, and a fall, winter and spring series of concerts including silent films, Christmas program, Bach Birthday Bash and Organists from the World's Great Cathedrals."
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C.B. Fisk Opus 97 St. John's Episcopal Church Gloucester, Massachusetts
"When Charles Fisk was asked to propose a specification for a new instrument for St. John's Episcopal Church, he was well qualified to respond. Not only did he have wide experience as an organ builder but he also had attended services at St. John's and was familiar with the church and its particular musical needs."
- from the dedication in 1989
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Rieger Organ Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church Washington, DC Organ Specifications
Above are three photos of the 3-manual, 40-stop, 50-rank Rieger tracker organ at The Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church in Washington, DC, home of the Washington Bach Marathon, celebrating its silver anniversary on Sunday, March 17, 2002, with the 25th annual Bach Marathon.
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Casavant Pipe Organ Opus 2000 Roswell Presbyterian Church Roswell, Georgia
"We had a really great Member's Recital this evening. It was 20th Century French played on the Cassavant at the Roswell Presbyterian Church."
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Aeolian-Skinner Organ St. Paul's Chapel Columbia University New York, NY
Located within the apse of St. Paul's Chapel is the Aeolian-Skinner Pipe Organ. Completed in 1938, it is one of the finest examples of American organ building in the 20th century. The console was rebuilt in 1997 by Robert Turner with America black walnut, to match the original woodwork in the choir area. The keys are 20,000 year old mastodon tusk ivory.
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Schantz Organ First United Methodist Church Campbell, California, USA
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Rieger Organ Town Hall Christchurch, New Zealand Click here for a larger image.
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Opus 35 John Brombaugh & Associates First Presbyterian Church Springfield, Illinois, USA
Opus 35 was completed this past June. Olivier Latry, the titular organist for Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, played a set of inaugural recitals. John Brombaugh has generously provided a series of photographs showing the organ at various stages of assembly. Click here for the slide show.
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Pieter Flaes Organ The German church The Hague The Netherlands
My organ's webpage is part of the website of the THE HAGUE ORGAN SOCIETY. Aart de Kort is our chairman and a fabulous interpretor as well as improvisor. Recently (March 2001) I visited Houston and a member of the Houston chapter of the AGO toured me around many organs in Houston. Quite interesting to see the difference between European-style organ building and USA-style organ building. The closest to my own experience was an organ made by FISK. I noticed on your website that Flentrop made a recent organ in your area. Well Flentrop is and has been in charge of my organ for all repairs since approx. 1960, and in 1984 my Pieter Flaes organ (who made it in 1870) was complete restored by Flentrop. The complete organ was taken apart and rebuilt to its original state of 1870.
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Fisk Organ Finney Chapel Oberlin College Oberlin, OH
This is a new installation at Finney Chapel and I have not played the instrument. The previous instrument was a large Aeolian-Skinner and I'm sure many were sad to see it go. Unfortunately, due to its positioning under the procenium, it was never able to fill the space properly. Hopefully this installation will be more effective.
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Walcker Organ St. Luke's Lutheran Church New York, NY
This is a nice little tracker that I'm able to practice on occasionally during lunchtimes, as it is near work. Bigger than a practice organ with great wooden keys, a nice strong action, and a good solid sound.
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Flentrop Organ Warner Concert Hall Oberlin Conservatory of Music Oberlin, OH
This was the main performance organ when I was in school. The flat pedalboard and the "plucky" tracker action which varied greatly among the three manuals were my greatest challenges. No electric combination action here! For big pieces, you had to have two human stop pullers plus you to make the registration changes. A great way to get to know your classmates, whether you were pulling or playing. And from bottom to top, what a magnificent sound! As Garth Peacock, my professor at the time, used to say, "You could play on the 8' Principal all day long!"
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