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Ayars, Contributions to the Art of Music in America by the Music Industries of Boston (1937) — the Squier, Farley, Rettberg, Rockwell and Elias Howe matter, 1937
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1900 of all types of organs have been built by the Skinner Organ Company alone for all parts of the United States, and this even includes instruments for France and Japan.
3This company's residence organs generally had a larger proportion of orchestral colors than their church organs, and kettle and snare drums were often used in them to good advantage. The house organs are made both with and without players, in which rolls are used, and their number of stops varies from six or seven to about fifty stops, as in the organ of the Skinner New York studio. At the present time they have a "Program Player," a circular holder by which up to ten records can be played successively.
5Some important Skinner installations are the following:
7CHURCH ORGANS
9NEW YORK CITY
10CATHEDRAL OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE
114 manuals, 98 stops
12GRACE CHURCH
134 manuals, 66 stops
14FIFTH AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
154 manuals, 78 stops
16ST. MARY THE VIRGIN
174 manuals
18ST. THOMAS' CHURCH
194 manuals, 81 speaking stops, Great, Swell, Choir, Solo, Echo, and Pedal Organs
20ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S CHURCH 19
215 manuals, 106 speaking stops
22KING'S CHAPEL, Boston
233 manuals, 37 stops
24SECOND CONGREGATIONAL, Holyoke, Massachusetts
254 manuals, 77 stops
26FOURTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Chicago, Illinois
274 manuals, 60 stops
28ST. LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Evanston, Illinois
294 manuals, 64 stops
30METHODIST TEMPLE, Chicago, Illinois
314 manuals
32TRINITY CATHEDRAL, Cleveland, Ohio
334 manuals, 43 stops
3519 When St. Bartholomew's Church moved uptown about 1917, this new organ was installed.
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