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Skinner Organ Co. Opus 819-A (1938)

Occidental College: Thorne Hall
Los Angeles, CA

Note: Not playable. (in this location)


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2014-06-16 - Interior of Auditorium showing Chamber Grillework (Photograph by Les Deutsch/Database Manager)

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Notes

2006-05-15 - 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> Relocation of #819 with one addition; Schantz, #550 console in 1961.</i> -Database Manager

2007-08-28 - Updated through online information from Les Deutsch. -- The console is disconnected and stored, uncovered, with misc. stage props in a room behind the stage. The pipes were still in the rear chambers as of two years ago. -Database Manager

2008-04-04 - Updated through online information from Stephen Hall. -- Organ is now in possesion of Wicks organ company, and is being offered for sale with restoration by Wicks. -Database Manager

2013-08-16 - Updated through online information from Scott Crowell. -- Purchased by St. Anthony Roman Catholic Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 2008. -Database Manager

2014-06-20 - Updated through online information from Dr. Les Deutsch. -- Although it was believed that the pipework and chests of this instrument had been removed and relocated to a church - this is not so. I personally inspected the instrument on June 13, 2014. All the pipework, chests, and freestanding chambers are still intact in the rear gallery behind grillwork. The Moller console is disconnected and stored in a room off to the right side of the stage. The pipes and chests appear to be in good condition. However, the organ has not been in playing condition for many years. A deal to sell the organ to a church fell through long ago and the college is currently interested in selling the entire instrument. -Database Manager


Stoplist

From Allen Kinzey via <i>The Aeolian-Skinner Archives</i> Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

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Stoplist taken from the console June 16, 2014 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Glendale, California
Thorne Hall, Occidental College

Skinner Organ opus 819-A, Moller Console

PEDAL                       GREAT                        SWELL

32     Diapason             16     Double Open Diapason  16     Bourdon
16     Major Bass            8     First Diapason         8     Diapason
16     Diapason              8     Second Diapason        8     Rhor Flute
16     Bourdon               8     Third Diapason         8     Salicional
16     Echo Lieblich (Sw)    8     Harmonic Flute         8     Vox Celeste
 8     Octave (Gt)           8     Erzahler (Ch)          8     Flauto Dolce
 8     Gedeckt               4     Octave                 8     Flute Celeste
 8     Still Gedeckt (Sw)    2 2/3 Twelfth                4     Octave
 8     Cello (Solo)          2     Fifteenth              4     Flute
       Mixture V                   Harmonics IV           2     Fifteenth
32     Fagotto               8     Trumpet                      Cornet IV
16     Trombone                    Chimes                       Mixture V
16     Fagotto                                           16     Wald Horn
 8     Trombone              4     Great to Great         8     Trumpet
                            16     Swell to Great         8     Oboe
 8     Great to Pedal        8     Swell to Great         8     Vox Humana
 4     Great to Pedal        4     Swell to Great         4     Clarion
 8     Swell to Pedal       16     Choir to Great               Trumulant
 4     Swell to Pedal        8     Choir to Great               Harp
 8     Choir to Pedal        4     Choir to Great               Celesta
 4     Choir to Pedal       16     Solo to Great
                             8     Solo to Great         16     Swell to Swell
                             4     Solo to Great          4     Swell to Swell
                                                          8     Solo to Swell


CHOIR                       SOLO

 8     Geigen                8     Flauto Mirabilis
 8     Concert Flute         8     Gamba
 8     Viole d’Orchest       8     Gamba Celeste
 8     Viole Celeste         4     Orches’l Flute
 8     Erzahler              8     Tuba Mirabilis
 4     Flute                 8     French Horn
 2 2/3 Twelfth               8     English Horn
       Carelon III                 Tremulant
 8     Corno d’Bassetto     
       Tremulant            16     Solo to Solo
       Harp                  8     Solo to Solo
       Celesta               8     Great to Solo

16     Choir to Choir
 4     Choir to Choir
16     Swell to Choir
 8     Swell to Choir
 4     Swell to Choir
16     Solo to Choir
 8     Solo to Choir
 4     Solo to Choir


 [Received from Les Deutsch 2014-06-19.]

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