file:    aeolian-skinner.st-luke-meth.kilgore.tx.us.1952

Date:    Fri, 1 Dec 1995 19:35:24 EST
From:    MR JAY CALLENDER <BXGF64A@PRODIGY.COM>
Subject: St. Luke's UMC-Kilgore TX  (Was "Double Greats")


ST. LUKE'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
KILGORE, TEXAS

AEOLIAN-SKINNER - OPUS 1175 - 1952

GREAT                   Manual 1

Quintaten               16
Principal                       8
Octave                  4
Twelfth                 2 2/3
Fifteenth                       2
Cornet (g20)            IV      8, 2 2/3, 2, 1 3/5 (1978 Add'n)
Fourniture              IV

Sw.-Gt. 16,8,4

ENCLOSED GREAT  Manual 1

Concert Flute           8       Open Wood, 1-12 Stopped
Flauto Dolce            8
Flute Celeste (c13)             8
Koppelflote             4
Cromorne                8

Enc. Gt.-Enc. Gt. 16,4

SWELL                   Manual 2

Viole                   8
Viole celeste (c13)             8
Gedeckt                 8
Principal                       4
Rohrflote                       4
Nasard                  2 2/3
Blockflote              2
Plein Jeu                       III-IV
Basson                  16
Trompette               8
Clairon                 4

Tremulant

Trompette-en-Chamade    8       (c13, 1978 addition)

Sw.-Sw. 16,4    Unison Off
Enc. Gt.-Sw. 16,8,4

PEDAL

Contrebasse             16      Open Wood
Quintaten (Gt)          16
Gedeckt (Sw ext)                16
Spitz Principal         8
Gedeckt (Sw)            8
Choral Bass             4
Mixture                 III
Bassoon (Sw)            16

-- [ From: J. Jay Callender * EMC.Ver #2.10P ] --

I play an Aeolian-Skinner with a divided or double Great. This is 
A-S Opus 1175 at St. Luke's United Methodist Church in Kilgore, 
Texas, right up the street from the large and rather well-known 
A-S at First Presbyterian. Opus 1175 is a very comprehensive 
two-manual instrument of 39 ranks and was designed by the late
Roy Perry and opened in 1952. The "Great" is exposed in the 
chancel and is essentially the principal chorus - the "Enclosed 
Great" is chambered to the left of the chancel and is more or less 
a small Choir division. The Enclosed Great has its own intra- and 
inter-divisional manual couplers but there is only one Gt.-Ped.
coupler which couples down anything drawn on the Great or Enclosed
Great.

This is a marvelous instrument - a pure joy to do choral accompaniment
on.  The room is fairly small  and is very dead, but Mr. Perry did 
wonders in the finishing.  The organ is in immaculate condition 
owing to the careful attention given it by Mr. Perry, by Jimmy 
Culp during his years at St. Luke's, by the Williams company in 
New Orleans, and presently by the Ross King Company.  Please feel 
free to drop by if you're ever in the Longview-Kilgore area and 
play the 'other' Kilgore A-S. 
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