Better Pipe Organ Database

Skinner Organ Co. Opus 749 (1929)

Dayton Art Institute: Mimi and Stuart Rose Auditorium [was Renaissance Hall]
456 Belmonte Park N
Dayton, OH

OHS convention: 2022

Images

2022-08-07 - Right stopjamb (Photograph by Luke Staisiunas, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2019-08-29 - Console (Photograph by Len Levasseur, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2019-08-29 - Auditorium interior (Photograph by Len Levasseur, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
2 manuals
18 stops
35 registers
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Has crescendo
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2006-05-08 - 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: With player attachment; extant; player dismantled. -Database Manager

2007-07-24 - Updated through online information from Michael Hughes. -Database Manager

2009-09-22 - Updated through online information from Lawrence Stofer. -- Chambers at the back of the stage. Pipework has much G.D. Harrison influence with more spotted metal pipes than earlier Skinners. -Database Manager

2017-11-24 - Updated by Matthew Hunt, who maintains the organ. Swell chamber pipe work is 73 notes for all ranks, 183 pipes for the Mixture III. In the Great chamber the violoncello and the Rohr Flute are 73 note pipe work; everything else is 61 notes. As of October 2017, all windchests were rebuilt and completed by the Hunt Krewson Pipe organ services of Dayton. Double Primary actions on duplex windchests were rebuilt completely by the Columbia Organ Company in Pa. -Database Manager

2018-11-28 - Updated by Matthew Hunt, who maintains the organ. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist Source: From Allen Kinzey Date not recorded

Dayton, Ohio
The Dayton Art Institute - Renaissance Hall

Skinner Organ Company   Opus 749   1929
2 manuals, 35 registers, 18 stops, 21 ranks
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            MANUAL I
            -----Expression I------
         8' Diapason             73
         8' Harmonic Flute       73
         8' Salicional           73
         8' Voix Celeste         73
         8' Flute Celeste II    110
         4' Octave               73
       III  Mixture             183
         8' Harp (TC)            --
         4' Celesta              61 bars
            -----Expression II-----
         8' Rohrflöte            73
         8' Violoncello          73
         4' Flute                61
         8' Tuba                 61
         8' French Horn          61
         8' Clarinet             61
         8' English Horn         61
         8' Vox Humana           61
            Tremolo (entire organ)
            Chimes
 
            MANUAL II
            Duplicate of MANUAL I
 
            PEDAL ORGAN
        16' Sub Bass             32
        16' Echo Lieblich        32
         8' Octave               12
         8' Gedeckt              12
        16' Trombone             32


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2017-03-27]

Websites

Opus 749: The Dayton Art Institute - (Aeolian-Skinner Archives website) Stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)