Princeton, New Jersey

Westminster Choir School – Bristol Chapel


Aeolian-Skinner Organ, Op. 920 (1934) inWestminster Choir School - Bristol Chapel (Princeton, NJ)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Builder:        Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co., Inc.
   Year:        1934
   Opus:        920
   
No. manuals:    3
No. stops:      49
No. ranks:      47
No. pipes:      2,939

Specification

             GREAT ORGAN                             SWELL ORGAN
          8' Diapason            61               8' Geigen              73
          8' Flute Harmonique    61               8' Rohrflöte           73
          8' Dulciana            61               8' Salicional          73
          4' Octave              61               8' Voix Celeste        73
      2 2/3' Quint               61               8' Unda Maris II      134
          2' Super Octave        61               4' Octave              73
         IV  Mixture            244               4' Flute Triangulaire  73
         II  Cymbel             122               2' Fifteenth           61
                                                  V  Plein Jeu          305
             CHOIR ORGAN                         16' Bombarde            73
         16' Dulciana            73               8' Trumpet             73
          8' Lieblich Gedeckt    73               8' Oboe                73
          8' Dulciana            12               8' Vox Humana          73
          4' Gemshorn            73               4' Clarion             73
          4' Flute d'Amour       73                  Tremolo
      2 2/3' Nazard              61
          2' Super Octave        61                  PEDAL ORGAN
      1 3/5' Tierce              61              16' Contrabass          32
          1' Blockflöte          61              16' Bourdon             32
        III  Mixture            183              16' Dulciana            CH
             Tremulant                            8' Principal           32
                                                  8' Flute Conique       32
                                                  8' Dulciana            CH
                                                  4' Flute Harmonique    32
                                                  4' Dulciana            CH
                                                 IV  Mixture            128
                                                 16' Bombarde            SW
                                                  8' Trumpet             SW
                                                  4' Clarion             SW


Source: Allen Kinzey

Photo Source: The American Organist, June 1950, via Steve Lawson

Notes: The 48 ranks of the organ were installed in 1934, with additions made the following year, along with tonal changes.  It was altered by Möller as their Op. R-660 in 1960 and Möller built a new console in 1964.  The organ has seen many a tool chest since that time:  Alterations were done by Church Organ Co. from 1968-1977; some tonal work by Mark Brombaugh and Kenneth Wolfe from 1982-1983; reeds re-voiced by Broome in the 1980s; additions and modifications by Kenneth Wolfe since August 1983.  The stop list as seen here was printed in The American Organist in April 1952, with comments:  "The College reports the organ today is exactly as installed with the exception that 'a set of Schulmerich Chimes has been installed and can be played from the console.' "  The preparer of the article was also under the impression that the Dulciana unit was actually at home in the Pedal division.  TAO says "Dulciana seems to be the correct name though a borrow to the Great has been given something entirely different and unsupported by other facts; Clarion is spelled thus in its original."

Organ Historical Society Database: https://pipeorgandatabase.org/OrganDetails.php?OrganID=2558