University of Virginia: Old Cabell Hall
112 Old Cabell Hall
Charlottesville, VA
Images
2023-09-09 - Auditorium interior, chambers, façade pipes and console (Photograph by Luke Staisiunas, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2023-09-09 - Auditorium, chambers and console (Photograph by Luke Staisiunas, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
Unknown - Old Cabell Hall Exterior (Photograph by McIntire Dept. of Music, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
Unknown - Console on stage, façade pipes (Photograph from an archival source: news.virginia.edu, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2013-02-20 - Cabell Hall Interior (Photograph by McIntire Dept. of Music, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2021-08-12 - Builder nameplate (Photograph by Tyler Horton, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2003-04-27 - Console (Photograph courtesy Hilbus Chapter, OHS/Database Manager)
2003-04-27 - Console (Photograph courtesy Hilbus Chapter, OHS/Database Manager)
2003-04-27 - Console plug for cable (Photograph courtesy Hilbus Chapter, OHS/Database Manager)
2003-04-27 - "Console, cable connected" (Photograph courtesy Hilbus Chapter, OHS/Database Manager)
2003-04-27 - Console (Photograph courtesy Hilbus Chapter, OHS/Database Manager)
2003-04-27 - Console (Photograph courtesy Hilbus Chapter, OHS/Database Manager)
2003-04-27 - Console (Photograph courtesy Hilbus Chapter, OHS/Database Manager)
2003-04-27 - Pedals (Photograph courtesy Hilbus Chapter, OHS/Database Manager)
2003-04-27 - Connecting cable - plug (Photograph courtesy Hilbus Chapter, OHS/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Non-Traditional Style, As Consoles by Holtkamp, Schlicker, et al
- Console position: Movable Console
- 3 manuals
- 25 stops
- 35 registers
- Key action Type: Electrical
- Stop action Type: Electrical
- Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
- Manual compass: 61 notes
- Pedal compass: 30 notes
- Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Combination action: Remote Pneumatic/Mechanical Capture
- Has combination thumb pistons
Notes
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1992. -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Movable console. Original fold-up console restored c. 1983 by A. Thompson-Allen Co. (Ded. 20 Oct 1983 by Earl Miller) Organ removed 1990's while hall was refurbished. Organ reinstalled by May 1996, but console not yet connected. -Database Manager
2005-11-19 - 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>Dedicated March 18-19, 1907; restored by A. Thompson-Allen Co. in 1983; extant, with original movable bat-wing console.</i> -Database Manager
2008-04-23 - Updated through online information from Stephen Hall. -- Console is stored in a small room off the stage, it is mounted on a movable platform. Organ is in regular use (2008) primarily ceremonial occasions such as baccalaureate ceremonies, but it is included in performances of several musical organizations and serves as a practice instrument for student organists. (per Press Release by the University dated April 22, 2008) -Database Manager
2012-10-08 - Updated through online information from Bob Moody. -- Hutchings-style batwing console. 30 note pedal. Great 16 open has monkey quint on bottom 6 notes. Remote stepper combination machine. Have to climb through swell chest or use a ladder to make changes. Magnets have separate windings for each use. E.g. Swell to Great has separate winding for 16, 8, and 4. Duplexing handled the same way. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Stoplist from <i>The Life & Work of Ernest M. Skinner</i> by Dorothy Holden, with clarification by Allen Kinzey Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Charlottesville, Virginia
University of Virginia - Cabell Hall
Skinner Organ Company Opus 127 1906 3 manuals, 25 stops, 27 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN SWELL ORGAN
16' Diapason 61 16' Bourdon 61
8' Diapason 61 8' Diapason 61
8' Gross Floete 61 8' Gedackt 61
8' Gamba 61 8' Salicional 61
8' Gedackt SW 8' Voix Celestes 61
8' Erzähler 61 8' Dulciana 61
4' Octave 61 4' Flute 61
2' Fifteenth 61 4' Violin 61
8' Cornopean SW 2' Piccolo 61
III Cornet 183
CHOIR ORGAN (enclosed with SW) 8' Cornopean 61
8' Geigen Principal 61 8' Oboe 61
8' Melodia 61 Tremolo
8' Dulciana SW
8' Unda Maris (TC) 49 PEDAL ORGAN
4' Flute SW 16' Diapason 30
2' Piccolo SW 16' First Bourdon 30
8' Clarinet 61 16' Second Bourdon SW
8' Oboe SW 8' Floete 12
8' Gedackt SW
8' Cello * SW
* Salicional & Voix Celestes
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2015-08-01]
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