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St.
Paul's Roman Catholic Church
Princeton, New Jersey
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Takeout
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after Easter, 2001 we spent a week at St. Paul's Catholic
Church removing the 1925 4-manual, 64 rank E.M. Skinner
organ and bringing it back to our shop in Stowe.
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Summer of 2001 we spent restoring pipework and placing it on new pitman windchests as well as rebuilding the console with new solid-state relays and combination action as well as repoduction Skinner draw knobs, rocker tablets, and thumb pistons.
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Beginning
of Installation Phase
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The beginning of November, 2001 we loaded the truck and headed for Princeton, New Jersey. The Organ Clearing House was hard at work using riggers to haul the windchests and other heavy components up into the rear gallery for installation. The organ will be making wonderful music in time for Christmas. After the holidays the final custom-built casework will go up as well as additional pipework and tonal finishing. Originally built for the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, it inspired and thrilled generations of organists. Our hope is that it will inspire generations more in its new home in Princeton.
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Final
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The instrument is now back in its home in St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church. All of the finishing work, voicing, tuning and final touches were completed in time for Easter so it would be ready to pour fourth the glorious sounds that made the name "Skinner" synonymous with fine organ builiding in the early Twentieth Century.
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