Thursday, July 5, 2012

Background on the organ

I'm posting several links to background information on the Aeolian-Skinner Opus 408D.


  1. First is a link to the New York City AGO Chapter's webpage on the organs of Trinity Church Wall Street. It has the history of the organ from its beginning until it was removed to storage at the church in 2003. It even mentions that we were given the organ in 2011 to put in our new sanctuary. Some warnings about reading this info. As you scroll down the page on the NYCAGO website don't be fooled into thinking that the "Marshall & Ogeltree" organ is what we got. It is an electronic and replaced the pipe organ that we got. Also, there are no pictures on that page of the pipes or console we got. What you see in the pictures is an organ case from an earlier pipe organ built by Erben. We will have a custom designed organ facade at Johns Creek UMC.
  2. A link to the news story aired on WSB News, Atlanta in 2011 about our acquisition of the organ. 
  3. A link to the slide show I made showing pictures of the organ as it was being moved and then of my planned trip to study various Aeolian-Skinner organs.
  4. A link to an article posted on New York NBC affiliate "4 New York". This came as a result of an Associated Press article. Some of the information was wrong. The organ wasn't built in 1846. A previous organ at Trinity Wall Street was built then. The rest is accurate. You can search the internet for articles that resulted from the AP release - they were all over the country.




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