Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Coliseum: Auditorium
300 Court Street
Evansville, IN
Note: Not playable. (in this location)
Images
Unknown - Console (From the University of Evansville Organ Program website, courtesy of STEPHEN C STEWART (1980's)/Database Manager)
January 2024 - Builder's Nameplate (Seth Daily/Database Manager)
January 2024 - Left stopamb (Seth Daily/Jeff Scofield)
January 2024 - Right stopjamb (Seth Daily/Jeff Scofield)
January 2024 - Echo stops (Seth Daily/Jeff Scofield)
January 2024 - Couplers (Seth Daily/Jeff Scofield)
2020 - Auditorium interior (Facebook/Jeff Scofield)
2020 - Room and console (Facebook/Jeff Scofield)
2014-12-30 - Building exterior ( Y Hoshua/Jeff Scofield)
2024-01-17 - 32’ Double Open Diapason 32’ G, G#, and A (Seth Daily/Seth Daily)
2024-01-17 - Swell, Solo, & Pedal blower 10” & 25” output 10HP (Seth Daily/Seth Daily)
2024-01-17 - Swell & partial Pedal Division with stage and auditorium expression (Seth Daily/Seth Daily)
2024-01-17 - Solo Division and partial Pedal (Seth Daily/Seth Daily)
2024-01-17 - Great & Choir Division with pipes in pipe trays and some miscellaneous pipes (Seth Daily/Seth Daily)
Circa 1980s - Solo Division pipework (Jeff Lyons /Seth Daily)
Circa 1980s - Swell Division pipework (Jeff Lyons/Seth Daily)
Circa 1980’s - Choir Division pipework (Jeff Lyons/Seth Daily)
Circa 1980’s - Great/Pedal Open Diapason (Jeff Lyons/Seth Daily)
2024-01-17 - Pipe trays (Seth Daily/Seth Daily)
2024-01-17 - Writing on side of blower room (Seth Daily/Seth Daily)
2024-01-17 - Harp and Moller Artiste Roll Player (Seth Daily/Seth Daily)
2024-01-17 - Echo Blower, 10” output, 4HP (Seth Daily/Seth Daily)
2024-01-17 - Various pipe trays (Seth Daily/Seth Daily)
2024-01-17 - Echo Division (Seth Daily/Seth Daily)
2024-01-17 - Expression selector (Seth Daily/Seth Daily)
2024-01-17 - Console keyboard selectors (Seth Daily/Seth Daily)
2024-01-17 - Unison selectors (Seth Daily/Seth Daily)
2024-01-17 - Pipework (Seth Daily/Seth Daily)
2024-01-17 - Pipework (Seth Daily/Seth Daily)
2024-01-17 - Pipework (Seth Daily/Seth Daily)
2024-01-17 - 25” Double Harmonic Tuba (Seth Daily/Seth Daily)
2024-01-17 - 25” Double Harmonic Tuba (Seth Daily/Seth Daily )
2024-01-17 - Various Echo Pipework (Seth Daily/Seth Daily)
2024-01-17 - Various Pipework (Great Flute?) (Seth Daily/Seth Daily)
2024-01-17 - Echo Diapason pipework (Seth Daily/Seth Daily)
2024-01-16 - Swell Traverse Flute (?) (Seth Daily/Seth Daily)
2024-01-17 - Various pipework (Seth Daily/Seth Daily)
2024-01-17 - Various Fagatto pipes (Seth Daily/Seth Daily)
2024-01-17 - Various Fagatto pipes (Seth Daily/Seth Daily)
2024-01-17 - Spitz Flute Wood (Seth Daily/Seth Daily)
2008 - 32’ Bombard pipework (NA/Seth Daily )
2024-01-17 - Organ layout plan (Seth Daily/Seth Daily)
1917-04-08 - Auditorium interior pre-installation of organ (Evansville Courier and Press/Seth Daily)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- 4 manuals
- 53 stops
- 95 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)
- Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
- Has tutti thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2007-12-14 - Identified from factory documents and publications courtesy of Stephen Schnurr. -Database Manager
2009-11-09 - Updated through online information from Stephen Hall. -- After the city built the new Vanderburgh Auditorium in the 1960s, the coliseum was no longer used as a major concert venue and the organ fell into disuse and disrepair. Local organ enthusiasts including Garland Mullins, Jeff Lyons and Kurt von Shekel have donated many hours of labor trying to keep the organ in playable condition, but the financial support needed for a proper restoration of the instrument has not been found as of yet. In 2005 Dr. Douglas Reed, professor of organ at the University of Evansville, with the help of the UE and Evansville city chapters of the A.G.O., began a series of annual concerts to help restore interest in the coliseum organ and in the legacy of Mr. Tinker. (The organ was named in memory of Milton Z. Tinker, who came to Evansville in 1867 and worked as superintendent of music in the Evansville public schools for 47 years.) - Information from the Evansville AGO website, accessed Nov 2009. -Database Manager
2012-04-15 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager
2013-12-21 - Updated through online information from Timothy E. Conyers. -- As of September 2013 this organ is being removed from the Coliseum and placed in the new chapel at the University of Evansville. The American Guild of Organist has been a part of the project to preserve this instrument. -Database Manager
2019-06-11 - Pipes and console removed September 2013 in hopes of reusing the parts for an organ in Neu Chapel at the University of Evansville. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Stoplist from Evansville AGO website Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Coliseum
Evansville, Indiana
Milton Z. Tinker Memorial Organ
M. P. Moller
Opus 2626 / 1919 (orginally built for Methodist Centenary at the state fairgrounds in Columbus, Ohio, moved to Evansville later in that year)
Opus 6059 / c. 1933 (rebuild by Moller)
IV/53 3684 pipes
GREAT (Manual 2, 10” wind pressure)
1 16' Open Diapason 49 leathered, 13-24 wood, 1-12 missing
2 16' Bourdon 61 wood
3 8' 1st. Open Diapason 12 from # 1
4 8' 2nd. Open Diapason 61 1-12 wood
5 8' Geigen Principal 61 1-12 wood
6 8' Gross Flute 61 wood
7 8' Gamba 61 1-12 wood
8 8' Clarabella 61 wood
9 8' Flute Celeste 49 tenor C) wood
10 8' Gedeckt 12 from #2
11 8' Gemshorn 61 changed 1932, was Doppel Flute
12 4' Octave 12 from #4
13 4' Harmonic Flute 61
14 4' Flute d’Amour 12 from #6
15 4' Gemshorn 12 from #11
16 2' Harmonic Piccolo 12 from#13
17 2 2/3' Mixture III 73 (1rk, 2-2/3) from #7and #17
18 16' Trumpet 16’ 49 1-12 missing
19 8' Trumpet 12 from #18
20 16' Tuba Profunda -- from Solo #65
21 8' Harmonic Tuba -- from Solo #66
22 4' Clarion -- from Solo #67
ECHO (Manual 2, 10” wind pressure)
23 8' Open Diapason 61 1-12 wood
24 8' Gross Flute 61 wood
25 8' Gamba 61 1-12 wood
26 8' Gamba Celeste 49 (tenor c)
27 8' Melodia 61 wood
28 8' Gemshorn 61 1-12 wood
29 4' Octave 12 from #23
30 4' Gambette 12 from #25
31 4' Flute 12 from #27
32 8' Tuba 61 (harmonic from tenor c)
33 Tremulant
34 Chimes 21 notes AA-f
SWELL (Manual 3, 10” w.p.)
35 16' Contra Viole 61 1-12 wood
36 16' Gedeckt 61 wood
37 8' Diapason Phonon 61 leathered, 1-12 wood
38 8' Open Diapason 61 1-12 wood
39 8' Viole d’Gamba 61
40 8' Flute Traverso 61 wood
41 8' Viola 12 from #35
42 8' Stopped Diapason 12 from #36
43 8' Viole d’Orchestre 61
44 8' Viole Celeste 49 (tenor c)
45 8' Spitz Flute 61 1-12 wood
46 8' Salicional 61
47 4' Octave 12 from #38
48 4' Wald Flute 61 wood
49 4' Flute 12 from #40
50 4' Salicet 12 from #46
51 2' Flageolet 12 from #48
52 2 2/3’ Dolce Cornet III 73 (1rk.,2-2/3’) from #43 and #52
53 16' Contra Fagotto 61
54 8' Cornopean 61
55 8' Fagotto 12 from #53
56 8' Vox Humana 61
57 4' Clarion 12 from #54
58 Tremulant
SOLO (Manual 4, 10” w.p.)
59 8' Stentorphone 61 leathered, 1-12 wood
60 8' Philomela 61 wood, (25-49 missing)
61 8' Cello 61
62 8' Vibrant String 61
63 4' Flute 12 from #60
64 8' Cor Anglais 61
65 16' Tuba Profunda 61 (25”w.p.) 1-36 wood resonators,
harmonic at 43, double harmonic at 54
66 8' Harmonic Tuba 12 from #65
67 4' Clarion 12 from #65
68 Tremulant
CHOIR (Manual 1) (10” w.p.)
69 16' Quintaten 61 1-24 wood
70 8' Open Diapason 61 1-12 wood
71 8' Geigan (sic.) Principal 61 1-12 wood
72 8' Concert Flute 61 harmonic, wood
73 8' Gemshorn 61 1-12 wood
74 8' Quintadena 12 from #69
75 8' Dulciana 61 1-12 wood
76 4' Octave 12 from #71
77 4' Hohl Flute 61 wood
78 4' Flute 12 from #72
79 4' Fugara 12 from #79
80 2' Piccolo 12 from #77
81 8' French Horn 61
82 8' Orchestral Oboe 61
83 8' Clarinet 61 belled
84 Tremulant
85 Harp 61 note (stopped wood resonators)
PEDAL (10” w.p.)
86 32' Double Open Diapason 25 1-7 resultant, from GGGG, wood
87 32' Contra Bourdon 25 1-7 resultant, from GGGG, wood
88 16' Open Diapason 12 from #86
89 16' Violone -- from Great #5
90 16' Bourdon 12 from #87
91 16' Contra Viole -- from Swell #35
92 8' Octave Bass 12 from #86
93 8' Cello -- from Solo #61 and 62
94 8' Flute 12 from #87
95 32' Contra Bombarde 12 from Solo #65
96 16' Tuba Profunda -- from Solo #65
97 16' Contra Fagotto -- from Swell #53
98 8' Harmonic Tuba -- from Solo #65
99 4' Clarion -- from Solo #65
100 16’ Echo Bourdon 32 wood
101 8' Echo Flute 12 from #100
[Received online from Stephen Hall November 11, 2009.]
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