La Grange, Illinois

Cossitt Avenue School


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Builder:        Skinner Organ Company
   Year:        1923
   Opus:        405
   
No. manuals:    3
No. stops:      26
No. ranks:      24
No. pipes:      1,586
 
 
 
                GREAT ORGAN                              SWELL ORGAN
             8' Diapason            73               16' Bourdon             73
             8' Clarabella          73                8' Diapason            73
             8' Erzähler            73                8' Gedeckt             73
             4' Octave              73                8' Salicional          73
             8' French Horn (in SW) 73                8' Voix Celeste        73
                Chimes      (in SW) 20 tubes          8' Aeoline             73
                                                      4' Flute Harmonique    73
                CHOIR ORGAN                         III  Mixture (15-19-22) 183
             8' Concert Flute       61                8' Cornopean           73
             8' Dulciana            61                8' Flugel Horn         73
             4' Flute Harmonique    61                8' Vox Humana          73
             8' Clarinet            61                   Tremolo
                Tremolo
             8' Harp (TC)           --                   PEDAL ORGAN
             4' Celesta             61 bars          16' Diapason            32
                                                     16' Bourdon             32
                                                     16' Echo Bourdon        SW
                                                      8' Octave              12
                                                      8' Bourdon             12
                                                      8' Still Gedeckt       SW
                                                         Chimes              GT


Source: The Life and Work of Ernest M. Skinner, by Dorothy J. Holden, and available thru the Organ Historical Society.

Notes: When this organ was for sale in the mid-1970's, Mrs. Holden's husband took the specification over the telephone from an unidentified caller.  The "Boston Organ Club Newsletter" dates the organ as 1923.

Organ Historical Society Database: https://pipeorgandatabase.org/OrganDetails.php?OrganID=22801