2014-12-02 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by James R. Stettner, using information from this web site: http://music.vassar.edu/organs/. -- -Database Manager
2016-05-30 - 23 ranks prepared-for; replaced in 1964 by Gress-Miles 3/64. -Database Manager
2022-02-08 - See *The Vassar Miscellany News* 16/11 (November 18, 1931), p. 4, for description of the Kimball. -Laurence Libin
2022-02-08 - Vassar's Kimball was installed in 1931 not 1932 and is described as having four manuals not three. A sixth, Antiphonal division was never installed. -Laurence Libin
Stoplist copied from <i>The Diapason</i> May 1931 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Poughkeepsie, New York
Vassar College
Skinner Hall of Music
Kimball 1932 3/51
Stops without pipecounts are prepared for
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GREAT SWELL
16' Diapason 61 16' Bourdon 73
8' 1st Diapason 61 8' Diapason 73
8' 2nd Diapason 61 8' Clarabella 73
8' Doppelflöte 8' Rohrflöte 73
8' Viola 61 8' Quintadena
4' Octave 61 8' Salicional 73
4' Harmonic Flute 61 8' Salicional Celeste 73
2 2/3' Twelfth 61 8' Viole d'Amour 73
2' Fifteenth 61 8' Viole d'Amour Cel
V Mixture 305 a 4' Octave
8' Tromba 61 4' Violina 73
8' Orchestral Oboe 4' Traverseflöte 73
4' Clarion 61 2' Flageolet 61
Sub V Mixture 305 c
Super 16' Waldhorn 73
8' Trumpet 73
SOLO (floating) 8' Oboe 73
8' Vox Humana 73
8' Violoncello 4' Clarion 73
8' Cello Celeste Tremolo
8' Harmonic Flute 73 Sub
8' Tuba Mirabilis Super
8' French Horn 73 Harp
8' English Horn 73 Celesta
Sub
Super CHOIR
Chimes
16' Gemshorn 73
PEDAL 8' Diapason 73
8' Concert Flute 73
32' Contra Bourdon 8' Spitzflöte
16' Wood Diapason 32 8' Spitzflöte Celeste
16' Metal Diapason GT 8' Dulciana 73
16' Contrabass 32 8' Unda Maris 73
16' 1st Bourdon 32 4' Chimney Flute 73
16' 2nd Bourdon SW 4' Dulcet
16' Gemshorn CH 2 2/3' Rohrnasat 61
10 2/3' Quint 7 2' Piccolo 61
8' Octave 1 3/5' Tierce
8' Major Flute 5 1 1/7' Septieme
8' Cello 12 8' Clarinet 73
8' Still Gedeckt SW Tremolo
8' Gemshorn CH Sub
4' Super Octave Super
4' Bourdon 12 Harp
4' Gedeckt SW Celesta
IV Mixture b
16' Trombone 32 ANTIPHONAL (Floating)
16' Waldhorn SW
8' Tromba 12 8' Diapason
8' Waldhorn SW 8' Gedeckt
4' Clarion 12 8' Muted Viole
Chimes SO 8' Muted Viole Celeste
4' Gemshorn
a 15-17-19-21-22 8' Flugel Horn
b 12-17-19-22 8' Vox Humana
c 15-19-22-26-29 Tremolo
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