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The Aeolian Co. Opus 1625 (1928)

Curtis Institute of Music: Casimir Hall
1726 Locust Street
Philadelphia, PA

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Notes

2007-03-05 - 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> Enlarged as Aeolian-Skinner Opus 958 (1937).</i> -Database Manager

2007-07-06 - Updated 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>Replaced by 1941 Aeolian-Skinner, Opus 1022.</i> -Database Manager

2011-01-18 - Updated through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -- Located in the ceiling, with the sole tonal openings being two lunettes, one at each side of the room, which were only four feet high at the their highest point, tapering away near the ends of the room; the lunettes were below the level of the organ; Aeolian-Skinner added a new five-manual console and Positiv as Op. 958 in 1937 and replaced the organ in 1941 with their Op. 1022. -Database Manager

2022-01-11 - Donated by Cyris H. K. Curtis, owner of the Curtis Publishing Company and dedicated in a recital by Lynwood Farnam on 11/27/1928. -Craig A. Otto


Stoplist

Stoplist <i>The Aeolian Pipe Organ and Its Music</i> by Rollin Smith; <i>The Diapason</i> January 1929 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

        Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
        Curtis Institute of Music
        Casimir Hall

        Aeolian   Op. 1625   1928   4/48
        ________________________________________________

        GREAT                        SWELL
    16' Bourdon         61       16' Bourdon          73
     8' First Diapason  61        8' Diapason         73
     8' Second Diapason 61        8' Gedeckt          12
     8' Gamba           61        8' Italian Viole    73
     8' Gross Flute     61        8' Voix Celeste     73
     8' Dulciana        61        8' Salicional       73
     4' Octave          61        8' Unda Maris       61
     4' Flute Harmonic  61        8' Aeoline          73
     2' Fifteenth       61        4' Octave Gedeckt   12
III-IV  Mixure         202        4' Salicet          12
     8' Trumpet         61    2 2/3' String Twelfth    7
        Tremolo                   2' Salicetina        5
        Sub                       8' Cornopean        73
        Unison Off                8' Oboe             73
        Super                     8' Vox Humana       73
                                  4' Clarion          73
        CHOIR                        Tremolo
    16' Dulciana        73           Sub
     8' Flute EspaƱol   73           Unison Off
     8' Flute Celeste   61           Super
     8' Gamba           73
     8' Gemshorn        73           SOLO
     4' Flute           12        8' Gross Gamba      73
     2' Flageolet       12        8' Gamba Celeste    73
 1 3/5' Flute Tierce    61        8' Unda Maris II   134
     8' Clarinet        73        4' Flute Harmonic   73
        Tremolo                   8' Tuba             73
        Sub                       8' French Horn      73
        Unison Off                8' English Horn     73
        Super                        Tremolo
                                     Sub
        PEDAL                        Unison Off
    16' Diapason        32 w         Super
    16' Violone         32 w
    16' Bourdon         GT           VOX HUMANA CHOIR
    16' Gedeckt         SW        8' Viole            61
    16' Dulciana        CH        4' Violina          61
     8' Octave          12       16' Bass Vox Humana  61
     8' Violoncello     12        8' Tenor Vox Humana 61
     8' Bourdon         GT      8-4' Soprano Vox
     8' Gedeckt         SW           Humana II       122
     8' Dulciana        CH           Tremolo
     4' Bourdon         GT
     4' Gedeckt         SW           PERCUSSION (in Swell)
    16' Trombone        32        8' Harp             61
     8' Tromba          12        4' Harp
        Pedal Divide                 Chimes           20

   [Received online from Jeff Scofield  January 18, 2011]

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