THE ORGAN ST. ANDREW’S EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL

The instrument was built by the Aeolian – Skinner Co. of Boston, MA and installed in 1969 (OPUS 1501). The rear trumpet (en chamade) was built by Robert Schopp of Alliance, OH and installed by James E. Hammack (St. Andrew’s organ custodian) in 1986. In 2004 the organ was rebuilt by David Finch (custodian since 1988) who re-leathered all chests and moved both the formerly antiphonal positive and the cantilevered great inside the main organ chamber. The original sixteen foot pedal principal retained its original position and is now en façade. The original great sixteen foot quintaton was the only rank not included in the re-building owing to space constraints in the newly configured organ chamber.

The Aeolian – Skinner is paired with an Allen Renaissance Model R380. The eighty-stop, three-manual console was extensively customized to accommodate highly flexible usage of the original Skinner stops either with or separate from their Allen sampled counterparts. Pipe ranks or sampled voices or both together can be engaged through separate control tabs for each division of the organ. The Allen Positive Division is placed across the chancel from the main organ chamber (where the Skinner Positive was formerly) and also sounds independently in the adjoining chapel. The Allen Great, Pedal and Solo Divisions sound from the front organ and/or from the rear of the nave in the same location as the Schopp Trumpet en Chamade. The Allen and Skinner components are all controlled from the same console through an electronic interface. The Allen was designed and installed by the Church Organ Group of Metairie, LA, Cornelius J. O’Donnell, President

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