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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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1Mr. Skinner has, from his beginning in organ work, been an ardent lover of beautiful, especially orchestral tones, and has always bent his energies toward reproducing them in the organ. He is acknowledged by many as the leader of his generation in the invention and development of such organ stops as the French Horn, English Horn, Flute Celeste and other orchestral stops.
3Original or improved stops which are peculiarly characteristic of his work and the organs in which the registers 20 were first used are as follows:
5Erzähler—Christ Church, Hartford
6Orchestral oboe (8' and 16')—City College, New York City
7Kleine Erzähler—Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago
8Tuba Mirabilis—Cathedral of Saint John the Divine
9Orchestral Bassoon (16')—Skinner Studio
10Bombarde (32')—City College, New York City
11Violone (32')—Cathedral of Saint John the Divine
12Contra Bassoon (32')—Princeton University.
14The French Horn (8') which Mr. Skinner has developed possesses singular beauty and purity.
16In 1927 G. Donald Harrison, for many years an associate of Henry Willis of London, came to this country, and joined the Skinner Company as an assistant to Mr. Skinner. He worked with the latter on all of the technical details of the tonal work, quickly absorbing the Skinner methods and voicing practices. Since Mr. Harrison had brought the knowledge and technical training needed to design the "classical" organ and produce the ensemble desired in the present organ world, he became in a few years the master of that organ, a recent development by this company. Hence he was successively called upon by the University of California, Trinity College, Harvard University, Church of St. Mary the Virgin, and Grace Cathedral to design large instruments for them.
18As Mr. Skinner is a fine mechanic and inventor, in addition to being a voicer of ability, this company has contributed much to the development of modern organs in the way of improvements and patented inventions.
20The Orchestrator invented about 1916 was an interesting development of automatic organ playing. By reducing the size of the holes, the whole organ range of sixty-two notes could be perforated on the player rolls. These "tracker" holes were staggered to form
2220 Registers are all 8 feet unless otherwise noted.
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