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Updated through online information from John Lanier. -- In 1952 this instrument was both releathered and enlarged by M. P. Moller with the addition of a Solo division with an additional three ranks, as well as a new four-manual console. In 1968 William Zimmer removed three or four of the original ranks from both the Great and Swell and installed a mixture on the Great and a both a 2-2/3' and a 1-3/5' mutation in the Swell division, placing both of them on off-set chests.
This was not satisfactory from a tonal standpoint, because it did not blend with the ensemble as a whole. Fortunately, the original Skinner pipes were placed in crates that were stored in the attic of the church, so that when Ontko restored and enlarged the instrument in 1980 these pipes were available to him to be reinstalled.
Updated through information adapted from E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn:
New M. P. Möller console in 1953; rebuilt and enlarged by Ontko and Young in 1988.
Rebuilt and enlarged by M. P. Möller with new console in 1953. Rebuilt with new console, Skinner stops restored, by Ontko & Young in 1990.
Webpage Links: Opus 326: First Baptist Church
Related Instrument Entries: Ontko & Young Co. (Opus 18, 1990) , Ontko Pipe Organs (Opus 18-A, 2011) , M. P. Möller (1953)
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