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OHS Pipe Organ Database
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Parkside Evangelical Lutheran
Buffalo, New York
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- Skinner Organ Co. (1924, Opus 476).
- Current Status: extant, altered. (Last update 2006-05-19.)
- 3 manuals. 30 stops. 28 ranks. 25 registers. 1883 pipes.
- Electro-pneumatic chests [pitman].
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The organ is in chambers to the sides at the front of the room. There are no visible pipes.
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Traditional style console with roll top.
Console in fixed position, left.
Balanced swell shoes/pedals.
Combination Action: 'Hold and Set' pneumatic/mechanical system.
AGO Standard (concave radiating) pedalboard.
Crescendo Pedal.
Reversible full organ/tutti thumb piston.
Reversible full organ/tutti toe stud.
Combination action thumb pistons.
Combination action toe studs.
Coupler reversible thumb pistons.
Coupler reversible toe studs.
- Additional notes.
- Identified 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:
Extant. (Database Manager. 2006-01-19)
- Updated through on-line information from Peter Davis. -- I was organist at Parkside from 1986-89, at which time the organ was releathered by Delaware Organ Co., who had Perflex-ed it in 1972. The original Skinner console was replaced with a Möller console (3 manual) about 1956, at which time a Marr & Colton 16' Tuba was added to the Pedal. Delaware made significant tonal changes in 1972 also, part of a total destruction revision to "modernize" the organ. The original French Horn (GT) and Vox Humana (SW) and Harp (CH) were removed. The Harmonic Flute (GT) was put onto the Vox channel as a 2-2/3 (SW). Fortunately, Delaware's "vision" of the complete rebuild was never completed, and some of the original Skinner beauty survives. (Database Manager. 2006-05-19)
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