Better Pipe Organ Database

Ernest M. Skinner Opus 135 (1906)

College of the City of New York: Great Hall
Convent Avenue at 140th Street
New York City: Manhattan, NY

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

Images

Unknown - Room (Photograph by AS Archives, submitted by John Roper/John Roper)

Unknown - Samuel Baldwin at the organ (Photograph by AS Archives, submitted by John Roper/John Roper)

Unknown - Facade (Photograph by AS Archives, submitted by John Roper/John Roper)

Unknown - Console (Photograph from the NYC AGO Organ Project/Database Manager)

Unknown - Organ case (Photograph from the NYC AGO Organ Project/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Console position: Movable Console
4 manuals
84 stops
63 registers

Notes

2005-11-19 - Identified 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: Additions and alterations in 1932, #135-A; in 1933, #A-681 to rebuild console; in 1934, #J-5214, in 1937, #135-B for additions, in 1937, #J-5635, in 1938, #J-5770; and in 1941, #A-500; removed in the 1960s. -Database Manager

2019-02-07 - Updated by Dalton Whiteside, who gave this as the source of the information: I have worked at the Archives of CCNY and I conducted an effort to get a new organ in the Great Hall. I wrote a report on the organ and act as architectural historian for the college.. The first organist at CCNY was Samuel Atkinson Baldwin who worked at the college from 1907-1932. Within his tenure, he performed 1,362 organ recitals for the public and by his retirement was named \"organist of the city of new york\". His successor was Charles Heinroth who continued to provide organ lessons until 1942. The Great Hall became the college Technology Library in the 1950\'s and the organ was simply covered in a sheet. In 1963, the Great Hall was being converted back to a ceremonial space and the Skinner organ was found not to work so it was thrown out. An Allen electric organ replaced the Skinner in 1963 which only operated until 1975, and it was removed in 1978. Only the original Skinner facade pipes survive. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist from the NYC AGO New York City Organ Project Date not recorded

        New York, New York
        College of the City of New York
        Great Hall

        Skinner   Op. 135   1906   4/63
        ________________________________________________

        GREAT  6" wind              SWELL  6"

    16' Diapason        61      16' Bourdon           61
    16' Bourdon         61       8' 1st Diapason 10"  61
     8' 1st Diapason    61       8' 2nd Diapason      61
     8' 2nd Diapason    61       8' Gross Floete      61
     8' 3rd Diapason    61       8' Gedackt           61
     8' Gross Floete    61       8' Spitzfloete       61
     8' Gamba           61       8' Viol d'Orchestre  61
     8' Gedackt         61       8' Voix Celestes     61
     8' Erzähler        61       8' Salicional        61
     4' Octave          61       8' Aeoline           61
     4' Flute           61       4' Octave            61
     2' Fifteenth       61       4' Flute             61
    16' Tuba            SO       4' Salicet           61
     8' Trumpet         61       2' Flautino          61
     8' Tuba            SO     III  Cornet           183
     4' Tuba            SO      16' Trumpet    10"    61
                                 8' Cornopean  10"    61
        SOLO   10"               8' Horn       10"    61
                                 8' Oboe              61
     8' Stentorphone    61       8' Vox Humana        61
     8' Philomela       61       4' Clarion    10"    61
     8' Gamba           61          Tremolo
     8' Dulcet II       122         Sub
     8' Concert Flute   CH          Super
     8' Quintadena      CH
     8' Dulciana        CH          CHOIR   6"
     4' Flute           61
     4' Flute           CH      16' Dulciana          61
    16' Tuba   15"      61       8' Diapason          61
    16' Fagotto         CH       8' Gamba             61
     8' Tuba Mirabilis  61 25"   8' Concert Flute     61
     8' Tuba   15"      12       8' Quintadena        61
     8' Orchestral Oboe CH       8' Dulciana          61
     8' Clarinet        CH       8' Unda Maris        61
     4' Tuba   15"      12       4' Violina           61
        Sub                      4' Flute             61
        Super                    2' Piccolo           61
                                16' Fagotto           61
        PEDAL  6"                8' Clarinet          61
                                 8' Orchestral Oboe   61
    32' Diapason  10"   32          Tremolo
    16' 1st Diapason    12          Sub
    16' 2nd Diapason    32          Super
    16' Bourdon         32
    16' Violone         32
    16' Dulciana        32
    16' Gedackt         SW
10 2/3' Quint            7
     8' Flute (1stDia)  12
     8' Gedackt          5
     8' Cello           SW
     4' Flute           32
    32' Bombarde   25"  12
    16' Ophecleide 25"  32
    16' Trombone        SO
     8' Tromba     25"  12

         [Received from Jeff Scofield December 2, 2019]

Websites

Opus 135: City College of New York - Great Hall - (Aeolian-Skinner Archives Web Site) Stoplist, photographs (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)