Better Pipe Organ Database

Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. Opus 953 (1937)

University of Rochester: Strong Auditorium
Wilson Boulevard
Rochester, NY

Images

Unknown - Console (Photograph by Eastman School of Music, Univ. of Rochester, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Unknown - Console (Photograph by Aeolian-Skinner Archives, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Unknown - Building exterior (Photograph by University of Rochester, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Unknown - Auditorium interior (Photograph by University of Rochester, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2017-12-02 - Auditorium interior (Photograph by University of Rochester, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
4 manuals
66 stops
74 registers
6 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Remote Pneumatic/Mechanical Capture
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

2007-03-05 - 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: Extant; in disrepair. -Database Manager

2008-09-08 - Updated through on-line information from Jonathan Ortloff. -- The organ was awarded an OHS citation in 2007. The date (1937) is the completion date. Contract was signed in December 1936. The organ was completed in May, 1937. Though all the pipes and chests are intact, the console, blower, static regulators, and remote combination machine have been removed and are in safe storage. The organ was last played in the early 1990s. There was originally an elevator shaft for a console lift. An elevator was never installed, so the console sat on a permanent platform built into the shaft. I'm not sure where the 74 stops comes from. By my count, there are 66 stops, i.e. top boards. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from The Aeolian-Skinner Archives Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Rochester, New York
University of Rochester - Strong Auditorium

Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co., Inc.   Opus 953   1937   4 manuals, 66 stops, 88 ranks
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            GREAT ORGAN (II)                        SWELL ORGAN (III)
        16' Violone             61              16' Quintaton           73 
         8' Principal           61               8' Geigen Principal    73
         8' Diapason            61               8' Stopped Flute       73
         8' Hohlflöte           61               8' Viola da Gamba      73
         8' Gemshorn            61               8' Viola Celeste       73
         4' Octave              61               4' Octave              73
         4' Flute Harmonique    61               4' Flute Triangulaire  73
     2 2/3' Quint               61               4' Violina             73
         2' Super Octave        61           2 2/3' Nazard              61
         2' Blockflöte          61               2' Flageolet           61
        IV  Full Mixture       244              IV  Full Mixture       244
        IV  Fourniture         244              IV  Plein Jeu          244
       III  Cymbel             183              16' Double Trumpet      73
            Chimes              CH               8' Trumpet             73
                                                 8' Oboe                73
            CHOIR ORGAN (I)                      4' Clarion             73
        16' Dulciana            73                  Tremulant
         8' Viola               73
         8' Orchestral Flute    73                  PEDAL ORGAN
         8' Dolcan              73              16' Principal           32
         8' Dolcan Celeste (TC) 61              16' Contrabass          32
         4' Zauberflöte         73              16' Violone             GT
     2 2/3' Nazard              61              16' Flute Conique       32
         2' Piccolo             61              16' Quintaton           SW
     1 3/5' Tierce              61              16' Dulciana            CH
         8' Clarinet            73               8' Octave              32
            Tremulant                            8' Open Flute          32
            Chimes                               8' Violoncello         GT
                                                 8' Quintaton           SW
            POSITIV ORGAN (IV)                   8' Dulciana            CH
         8' Koppelflöte         61               4' Super Octave        32
         8' Quintade            61               4' Nachthorn           32
         4' Prinzipal           61               2' Blockflöte          32
         4' Nachthorn           61             III  Mixture             96
     2 2/3' Nasat               61              II  Fourniture          64
         2' Blockflöte          61              16' Trombone            32
     1 3/5' Terz                61               8' Trumpet             12
     1 1/3' Larigot             61               8' Bassoon             32
         1' Sifflöte            61               4' Clarion             12
        IV  Scharf             244                  Chimes              CH
       III  Zimbel             183
         8' Krummhorn           61

            SOLO ORGAN (IV; enc. in CH)
         8' Orchestral Oboe     73
         8' Harmonic Trumpet    73
         4' Harmonic Clarion    73
            Tremulant


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2016-01-14]

Documents

p.2 of Write-up from THE DIAPASON October 1937 Stoplist continuation -Jeff Scofield
p.1 of Write-up from THE DIAPASON October 1937 Stoplist and description -Jeff Scofield
(2000-01-01) . On-line update from Jonathan Ortloff. -Database Manager

Websites

Opus 953: Strong Auditorium, University of Rochester - (Aeolian-Skinner Archives Web Site) Stoplist, photographs (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)