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Skinner Organ Co. Opus 473 (1924)

Florida State College for Women / Florida State University: Auditorium
Tallahassee, FL

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)


Consoles

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Notes

2005-06-24 - Updated through information adapted from <i>E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List</i>, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: <br><i>Two manual Echo and Pedal duplex added in 1931, #473-E;</i> -Database Manager

2006-01-19 - Identified through online information from Will Scarboro. -- 18 ranks of pipes were prepared for and never installed. Organ was originally installed in the Westcott Auditorium. Echo organ added by Skinner (opus 473-E) in 1931. Echo organ had its own two-manual console. A Harp from Skinner opus 766 was added in the late 1930s. Organ was moved to Opperman Music Hall in the Music building in the late 1940s. Echo organ was placed elsewhere in the building. A Positiv division was added to the organ in the 1960s. The organ was sold to Riverside Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida in 1975. The Pedal Trombone, Solo, Positiv, and parts of the Swell and Choir organs were used in the rebuilding of the church's Skinner organ. The remainder was sold. The Skinner echo organ (473-E) was sold ca. 1976. -Database Manager


Stoplist

Typed stoplist Source: from <i>The Diapason</i>, June 1924 Date not recorded

Tallahassee, Florida
Florida State College for Women

Skinner Organ Company   Opus 473   1924        4 manuals, 33 stops, 33 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN                             SWELL ORGAN
     16' Bourdon             17 PED          16' Bourdon             73
      8' First Diapason      61               8' Diapason            73
      8' Second Diapason     61               8' Gedeckt             73
      8' Claribel Flute      61               8' Salicional          73
      8' Erzähler            61               8' Voix Celeste        73
      4' Octave              61               8' Viole d'Orchestre   pf
      4' Flute               pf               8' Viole Celeste       pf
  2 2/3' Twelfth             pf               8' Flauto Dolce        73
      2' Fifteenth           pf               8' Flute Celeste (TC)  61
      8' Tromba              61               4' Octave              pf
      4' Clarion             pf               4' Flute               73
         Chimes (in Solo)    20 tubes         2' Flautina            61
                                             IV  Mixture             pf
         CHOIR ORGAN                         16' Posaune             pf
     16' Dulciana            pf               8' Cornopean           73
      8' Diapason            73               8' Flugel Horn         73
      8' Concert Flute       73               8' Vox Humana          73
      8' Dulciana            73               4' Clarion             73
      8' Unda Maris (TC)     61                  Tremolo
      4' Flute d'Amour       73
  2 2/3' Nazard              pf                  PEDAL ORGAN
      2' Piccolo             pf              32' Resultant           --
      8' Clarinet            73              16' Diapason            32
      8' Orchestral Oboe     pf              16' Violone             pf
         Tremolo                             16' Bourdon             32
      8' Harp (TC)           pf              16' Echo Lieblich       SW
      4' Celesta             pf              16' Dulciana            CH pf
                                              8' Octave              12
         SOLO ORGAN                           8' Gedeckt             12
      8' Gross Gedeckt       pf               8' Violoncello         pf
      8' Gamba               73               8' Still Gedeckt       SW
      8' Gamba Celeste       73               4' Super Octave        12
      8' Tuba Mirabilis      73               4' Flute               12
      8' French Horn         73              16' Trombone            32
      8' English Horn        73              16' Posaune             SW pf
         Tremolo                              8' Tromba              12
                                              4' Clarion             12
         ECHO ORGAN
      8' Chimney Flute       pf
      8' Flute Celeste       pf
      8' Vox Humana          pf
         Tremolo             pf
         Chimes              pf


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2017-09-07]


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