Ivan F. Becker Residence

Staten Island, N.Y.
             
Skinner Organ Company
Boston, Mass. – Opus 786 (1929)
Electro-pneumatic action
2 manuals, 18 registers, 8 stops, 9 ranks


This two-manual duplexed organ was originally installed in the music room of Col. E. A. Deeds' yacht, Lotosland. The organ was built with a flat pedalboard and had nine ranks of pipes. After the yacht was purchased in 1940 by the United States Navy, the organ was moved to the residence of Ivan F. Becker in Staten Island, N.Y. Later, the organ was acquired by Paul-Martin Maki and moved to his residence in Jersey City, N.J. Sadly, the organ was destroyed by fire.
               
Manual I – 61 notes, enclosed
8
  Diapason
61
4
  Flute Triangulaire
61
8
  Rohrflöte
61
8
  Flugel Horn
61
8
  Salicional
61
8
   Vox Humana
61
8
  Voix Celeste
61
  Tremolo  
8
   Flute Celeste II ranks
110
        

     

     
Manual II – 61 notes (duplexed from Manual I)
8
  Diapason
—
2
  Flute Triangulaire
—
8
  Rohrflöte
—
8
   Flugel Horn
—
8
  Salicional
—
8
   Vox Humana
—
8
  Voix Celeste
—
  Tremolo
8
  Flute Celeste II ranks
—
     

     

     
Pedal – 32 notes
16
  Bourdon [ext.]
12
8
  Rohrflöte
Man. I
             
Sources:
     Aeolian-Skinner Archives web site: http://aeolianskinner.organsociety.org/Specs/Op00786.html. Stoplist of Skinner Organ, Op. 786.
     Kinzey, Allen, and Sand Lawn, comps. E.M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List. New Rev. Ed. Richmond: The Organ Historical Society, 1997.