Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2005-12-22 - 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> Rebuild of E. M. Skinner Opus 230 (1914). Swell Vox Humana from #667 added in 1963; replaced by Fisk Op. 116 in 2001</i> -Database Manager
2010-04-20 - Updated through online information from Nathaniel Powell. -- For 85 years, an organ designed and built by E.M. Skinner in 1914 and extensively rebuilt by the firm Aeolian-Skinner in the early 1950s, served Oberlin College in Finney Memorial Chapel. That organ has been dismantled (in late-June 1999) and shipped to Indianapolis for renovation before being installed in its new home in Truro Episcopal Church of Fairfax, Virginia. [Never made it to Fairfax; see below] -Database Manager
2016-09-30 - Updated through online information from Weston Harris. <br>Relocated to Sedona, Arizona http://www.sedonaconservatory.org/concert-organ/ -Database Manager
2016-12-06 - Replaced by Fisk Op. 116 in 2001 and was to be moved to Truro Episcopal Church in Fairfax, Virginia, by Goulding & Wood in 2000. Apparently, the Virginia church seceded from the Episcopal Church and all their property became the property of their former diocese, which was left with 230-A in storage with Goulding & Wood. The organ was purchased by the Sedona Conservatory and moved there by the OCH in November 2015, where it will share quarters with the famed Estey from Claremont College. They will be restored independently and, in addition to their own rebuilt individual consoles, will be able to be played by a new 5-manual master console. -Database Manager
2018-09-26 - From the Sedona Conservatory website: In 1997 Oberlin College received a significant bequest to be used to purchase a large new instrument of a tonal style not yet part of Oberlin-s organscape. With the choice being a French-styled instrument, and with the only other concert hall large enough to house the gifted instrument having just received a significant new organ by the Dutch builder Flentrop, Finney Chapel was selected to receive the new installation. The Finney Aeolian-Skinner organ, with the incorporated pipe sets from the historic 1915 E. M. Skinner instrument that preceded it, had served multiple generations of Conservatory organ students and concert artists. It would need a new home. The instrument was sold to a congregation in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, and in 1999 was moved from Oberlin-s Finney Chapel to the Indianapolis organ builders Goulding and Wood who had been chosen for the anticipated installation. Shortly thereafter, when the purchasing church attempted to secede from the Diocese, the organ became part of a legal battle lasting the better part of a decade. Ultimately, the church and its holdings, including the historic Finney Chapel Aeolian-Skinner, became the property of the Diocese, which had no idea what to do with an instrument of this size and stature. With the organ in storage in Indianapolis, the Diocese decided to sell it. t was Organ Clearing House (OCH), an organization that finds new homes for available organs, that had removed the instrument from its 85-year home in Oberlin and transported it to Indianapolis. OCH was once again engaged, this time as selling agent, to find another home for this now orphaned instrument. Of particular interest is that one John Bishop, an organ student at Oberlin in the early 1970-s, and thus intimately acquainted with this instrument having so often played it in Finney Chapel, this same John Bishop was now the head of Organ Clearing House. Russell Fox, founder & director of the Sedona Conservatory, established in 2011, became aware of the Oberlin Aeolian-Skinner-s availability in 2012 from Los Angeles organ builder Weston Harris. Having graduated from Oberlin Conservatory in 1969, Mr Fox, like OCH-s John Bishop, was thoroughly familiar with Finney Chapel-s Aeolian-Skinner and it-s history. Mr. Fox opined, "It was not a major concern that this was going to be a ‘pipes only- acquisition. After all, it-s the irreplaceable tonal quality of the pipework that ultimately determines an organ-s most distinctive nature. Having the original wind chests would have saved us a small fortune. However, with its anticipated installation in a new concert hall, not being restricted by the original configurations would allow for greater flexibility in its re-design and presentation.†Oberlin-s Aeolian-Skinner Opus #230-A was purchased for the Sedona Conservatory in June, 2014, with the decision to keep it in storage in Indianapolis until appropriate facilities could be arranged in Sedona. With that finalized, in November, 2015 Mr. Fox traveled to Indianapolis to oversee the instrument-s loading and cross country move. -Database Manager
Stoplist from listing in Organ Clearing House Feb 21, 2012 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Oberlin, Ohio
Oberlin College - Finney Chapel
Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co., Inc. Opus 230-A 1955 3 manuals, 61 stops, 82 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN SWELL ORGAN
16' Montre 61 16' Lieblich Gedackt 61
8' Prinzipal 61 8' Geigen 61
8' Spitzflöte 61 8' Gedackt 61
8' Holzgedackt 61 8' Spitzflöte 61
4' Octave 61 8' Salicional 61
4' Rohrflöte 61 8' Voix Celeste 61
2 2/3' Quint 61 4' Geigen Octave 61
2' Doublette 61 4' Flute 61
Mixtur IV-VI 324 2 2/3' Nazard 61
Scharf III 183 2' Octavin 61
16' Fagotto 61 Plein Jeu IV 244
8' Trumpet 61 16' Bombarde 61
Chimes 25 tubes 8' Trompette 61
8' Hautbois 61
CHOIR ORGAN 8' Voix Humaine 61 *
16' Gamba 61 4' Clairon 61
8' Viola 61 Tremulant
8' Concert Flute 61 * from Op. 667, added 1963
8' Kleinerzähler II 122
4' Flauto Traverso 61 PEDAL ORGAN
2' Piccolo 61 32' Soubasse 32
8' Clarinet 61 32' Violone 32
Tremulant 16' Principal 32
8' Trompette en Chamade 61 16' Bourdon 12
8' Harp (TC) -- 16' Violone 12
4' Celesta 61 bars 16' Quintaten PO
16' Gamba CH
POSITIV ORGAN 16' Lieblich SW
16' Quintaten 61 8' Principal 32
8' Prinzipal 61 8' Cello 12
8' Nason Flute 61 8' Gedacktpommer 32
4' Prinzipal 61 8' Still Gedackt SW
4' Nachthorn 61 5 1/3' Quint 32
2' Prinzipal 61 4' Choralbass 32
2' Koppelflöte 61 4' Nachthorn 32
1 1/3' Larigot 61 2' Blockflöte 32
1' Sifflöte 61 Mixtur IV 128
Sesquialtera II 122 Scharff II 64
Mixtur IV-VI 324 32' Bombarde 32
8' Cromorne 61 16' Posaune 12
4' Rohrschalmei 61 16' Bombarde SW
Tremulant 16' Fagotto GT
8' Trompette 12
8' Cromorne PO
4' Clairon 12
4' Rohrschalmei PO
Chimes GT
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2016-12-06]
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