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Ernest M. Skinner Company Opus 195 (1911)

Williams College: Grace Chapin Hall
Williamstown, MA

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


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Notes

2005-12-01 - Identified 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> Inaugural recital by Sumner Salter, Samuel Atkinson Baldwin, Hamilton Crawford MacDougall and William Churchill Hammond on November 21, 1912; extant but vandalized; much pipework missing.</i> -Database Manager

2018-03-05 - Updated by Scott Crowell, naming this as the source of information: Advertisement-March 2018 American Organist, page 89.<br> Organ was removed from this location in 2011 by Quimby Pipe Organs, who will incorporate the pipework into its new organ for Dunwoody United Methodist Church in Dunwoody, Georgia. -Database Manager

2019-11-12 - Chapin Hall carries the name of Alfred Clark Chapin, class of 1869. It was dedicated in 1912 and was first called “Grace Hall” in honor of Chapin’s first wife who died in 1908. The building was renamed in 1921 after Mr. Chapin had remarried. -Database Manager


Stoplist

Stoplist from <i>The Diapason</i>, October 1912 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Williamstown, Massachusetts
Williams College - Grace Chapin Hall

The Ernest M. Skinner Co.   Opus 195   1911   4 manuals, 60 stops, 66 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN                            SWELL ORGAN
     16' Diapason            61             16' Bourdon             73
     16' Bourdon             61              8' First Diapason      73
      8' First Diapason      61              8' Second Diapason     73
      8' Second Diapason     61              8' Clarabella          73
      8' Philomela           37 PD           8' Gedackt             73
      8' Gross Floete        61              8' Salicional          73
      8' Melodia             61              8' Voix Celeste        73
      8' Gamba               61              8' Spitz Floete        73
      8' Gemshorn            61              8' Aeoline             73
      4' Octave              61              8' Vox Angelica (TC)   61
      4' Wald Floete         61              4' Octave              73
      2' Fifteenth           61              4' Flauto Traverso     73
    III  Mixture            183              4' Salicet             73
     16' Trombone            SO              2' Flautino            61
      8' Tuba                SO            III  Solo Mixture       183
      8' Trumpet             61             16' Trumpet             73
      4' Clarion             SO              8' Cornopean           73
                                             8' Oboe                73
         CHOIR ORGAN                         4' Clarion             73
     16' Contra Gamba        73                 Tremolo
      8' Geigen Principal    73
      8' Quintadena          73                 ECHO ORGAN
      8' Concert Flute       73              8' Fern Flute          73
      8' Dulciana            73              8' Dulcet II          146
      8' Unda Maris (TC)     61              4' Rohr Floete         73
      8' Dulcet II          146              8' Vox Humana          73
      4' Flute d'Amour       73                 Tremolo
      2' Piccolo Harmonique  61                 Cathedral Chimes
     16' Fagotto             73
     16' English Horn        73                 PEDAL ORGAN
      8' Orchestral Oboe     73             32' Diapason            32
      8' Vox Humana          73             32' Contra Bourdon      32
         Tremolo                            16' First Diapason      12
         Carillons                          16' Second Diapason     GT
                                            16' Violone             32
         SOLO ORGAN                         16' Bourdon             32
      8' Stentorphone        73             16' Gedackt             SW
      8' Philomela           PD Diap.       16' Contra Gamba        CH
      8' Viol d'Orchestre    73              8' Octave              12
      8' Viol Celeste        73              8' Flute               12
     16' Trombone            61              8' Cello               SW
      8' Tuba                12              8' Gedackt             SW
      8' French Horn         73              8' Flauto Dolce        CH
      8' Corno di Bassetto   73              4' Flute               12
      8' Clarinet            73             16' Trombone            SO
      8' Orchestral Oboe     CH              8' Tuba                SO
      8' Vox Humana          CH              4' Clarion             SO
      4' Clarion             12
         Tremolo
         Carillons


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2014-09-16]


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