Cleveland Public Auditorium: Public Hall/Music Hall
500 Lakeside Avenue E
Cleveland, OH
OHS convention: 2009
Images
2008-07-05 - View from music hall to stage (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)
2008-07-05 - Auditorium side (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)
2007-06-23 - Building Exterior (Photograph by Joseph M. McCabe/Database Manager)
2008-06-26 - Stage and Pipework (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)
2008-06-26 - Stage, Pipework, and Main Auditorium (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)
2008-06-26 - Stage from Main Auditorum Side (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)
2008-06-26 - Theater, Stage, and Pipework (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)
2006-01-11 - Swell Pipework (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)
2006-01-11 - Swell Pipework (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)
2006-01-11 - Swell Pipework (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)
2006-01-11 - Swell Pipework (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)
2006-01-11 - Swell Pipework (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)
2006-01-11 - Swell Pipework (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Movable Console
- 5 manuals
- 123 stops
- 153 registers
- 7 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: Adjustable Combination Pistons
- 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
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1991 -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Temporary Klann console in 1971, original in storage. Some work by Joseph Nagle in 1970s. Metal pipes of Echo stolen by 1990. [Same as Public Hall?] -Database Manager
2006-01-04 - 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>Opening recital by Edwin Arthur Kraft on September 10, 1922; extant.</i> -Database Manager
2008-05-24 - Updated through online information from Don Daley. -- Klann Console used exclusively, organ rarely played, chambers very dusty/dirty -Database Manager
2010-12-31 - Updated through online information from Bob Higgins. -Database Manager
2011-06-15 - Updated through online information from Conor Annable. -Database Manager
2018-05-07 - The 10,000-capacity main auditorium shares its stage with a second venue housed at the facility: the 3,000-capacity Music Hall. -Database Manager
2024-04-23 - Updated through online information from Terry Mueller: The Mason & Hamlin grand piano has been missing for many years, although the Skinner-made mobile pneumatic player mechanism is still there. I visited the organ in 1970 along with Harry Ebert, Pittsburgh, PA, organ builder. -Jim Stettner
Stoplist
From Allen Kinzey via <i>The Aeolian-Skinner Archives</i> Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland Auditorium
Skinner Organ Company Opus 328 1921 5 manuals, 123 stops, 149 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN (10" wind) SOLO ORGAN (15" wind)
16' Diapason 73 16' Contra Salicional 73
16' Bourdon 17 PED 8' Diapason 73
8' First Diapason 73 8' Stentorphone 73
8' Second Diapason 73 8' Gross Gedeckt 73
8' Third Diapason 73 8' Doppel Flute 73
8' Stentorphone 73 8' Harmonic Flute 73
8' Philomela 73 8' Gross Gamba 73
8' Clarabella 73 8' Gamba Celeste 73
8' Gamba 73 8' String Organ --
8' Erzähler 73 4' Prestant 61
8' String Organ -- 4' Hohlpfeife 61
5 1/3' Gross Quinte 73 4' Viola 61
4' First Octave 61 4' Gamba Celeste 61
4' Second Octave 61 2' Piccolo 61
4' Harmonic Flute 61 V Mixture 305
2 2/3' Twelfth 61 V Cymbale 305
2' Fifteenth 61 16' Ophicleide 73
III Mixture 183 8' Tuba Mirabilis (30") 73
V Chorus Mixture 305 8' French Tuba 73
16' Ophicleide 73 8' Tuba 73
8' Tromba 73 8' Bassoon 73
4' Clarion 61 8' French Horn 73
Cathedral Chimes 25 tubes 8' Corno di Bassetto 73
16' Piano } -- a 8' Heckelphone 61
8' Piano } 85 notes a 8' Orchestral Oboe 61
4' Piano } -- a 8' Musette 61
4' Tuba Clarion 61
SWELL ORGAN (10" wind) 4' Clarion 61
16' Bourdon 73 Tremolo
16' Dulciana 73
8' First Diapason 73 ECHO ORGAN (10" wind)
8' Second Diapason 73 8' Diapason 73
8' Stentorphone 73 8' Gedeckt 73
8' Clarabella 73 8' Gamba 73
8' Gedeckt 73 8' Gamba Celeste 73
8' Gamba 73 8' String Organ --
8' Viol d'Orchestre 73 4' Flute 61
8' Salicional 73 4' Gamba Celeste II 122
8' Voix Celeste 73 8' Tromba 73
8' Flauto Dolce 73 8' French Horn 61
8' Flute Celeste (TC) 61 8' Vox Humana 61
8' Aeoline 73 Tremolo
8' Unda Maris (TC) 61 Cathedral Chimes 25 tubes
8' String Organ --
4' Octave 61 PEDAL ORGAN (6" & 10½" wind)
4' Flute Harmonique 61 64' Gravissima --
4' Violina 61 32' Diapason (2nd Diap) 12
4' Voix Celeste 61 32' Contra Violone (6") 12
4' Unda Maris II 122 16' First Diapason (8½") 32
2' Flageolet 61 16' Second Diapason 32
III Sesquialtera 183 16' Violone 32
V Mixture 305 16' Dulciana SW
16' Posaune 73 16' Gamba CH
16' English Horn 73 16' First Bourdon 32
8' Tuba 73 16' Lieblich Gedeckt SW
8' Cornopean 73 16' Echo Bourdon 32
8' French Trumpet 73 10 2/3' Quint (1st Bdn) --
8' Corno d'Amour 73 8' Octave (1st Diap) 12
8' Vox Humana 61 8' Principal (2nd Diap) 12
4' Tuba Clarion 61 8' Cello (Vln) 12
4' Clarion 61 8' Gedeckt (1st Bdn) 12
Tremolo 8' Still Gedeckt SW
8' Echo Gedeckt 12
CHOIR ORGAN (10" wind) 4' Super Octave (2nd D) 12
16' Contra Gamba 73 V First Mixture derived b
8' First Diapason 73 V Second Mixture derived c
8' Second Diapason 73 32' First Bombarde (Tbn) 12 (30")
8' Concert Flute 73 32' Second Bombarde (Oph) 12 (15")
8' Bois Celeste 73 16' Trombone 32
8' Quintadena 73 16' Ophicleide 32
8' Viola 73 16' Posaune SW
8' Dulcet II 146 16' Fagotto CH
8' Klein Erzähler II 134 8' Tromba (Tbn) 12
8' String Organ -- 8' Trumpet (Oph) 12
4' Octave 61 4' First Clarion (Tbn) 12
4' Flute 61 4' Second Clarion (Oph) 12
4' Gemshorn 61 16' Piano GT
2 2/3' Nazard 61 8' Piano GT
2' Piccolo 61
1 3/5' Tierce 61 STRING ORGAN (10" wind)
1 1/7' Septieme 61 8' Gamba 73
III Mixture 183 8' Gamba Celeste 73
16' Fagotto 73 8' Salicional 73
8' Trumpet 73 8' Salicional Celeste 73
8' Orchestral Oboe 73 8' Dulcet 73
8' Clarinet 73 8' Dulcet Celeste 73
4' Clarion 61
Tremolo
8' Celesta Sub (TC) --
4' Celesta 61 bars
a Mason & Hamlin CC scale (9'4" concert grand), a mobile pneumatic
piano-player action that rolls up to the keyboard and connects via
plug at stage-left as viewed from the Public Hall side.
b Collective; from Pedal 16' First Bourdon and 32' Contra Violone
c Collective; from Pedal 16' First Bourdon and 32' Contra Violone
COUPLERS (above Manual V) ACCESSORIES
Swell to Pedal Thumb Pistons
Great to Pedal General 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8
Choir to Pedal Echo 1-2-3-4-5-6
Solo to Pedal Solo 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
Echo to Pedal Swell 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
Swell to Pedal 4 Great 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
Choir to Pedal 4 Choir 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
Solo to Pedal 4 Combination Setter
Swell to Great General Cancel
Choir to Great
Solo to Great Toe Pistons
Echo to Great Swell 1, 5 and 8
Swell to Choir Choir 1, 5 and 8
Solo to Choir Solo 1, 5 and 8
Echo to Choir Pedal 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
Echo to Swell
Echo to Solo Piston Couplers
Great to Solo Pedal to Great Combs. ON/OFF
Swell to Swell 16 Pedal to Swell Combs. ON/OFF
Swell to Swell 4 Pedal to Choir Combs. ON/OFF
Swell to Great 16 Pedal to Solo Combs. ON/OFF
Swell to Great 4
Swell to Choir 16 Reversibles (Thumb & Toe Pistons)
Swell to Choir 4 Echo to Pedal
Choir to Choir 16 Solo to Pedal
Choir to Choir 4 Swell to Pedal
Choir to Great 16 Great to Pedal
Choir to Great 4 Choir to Pedal
Solo to Solo 16 All Swells to Swell (Toe only)
Solo to Solo 4 Sforzando I
Solo to Great 16 Sforzando II
Solo to Great 4
Echo to Echo 16 PEDAL DIVIDE (left key-cheeks)
Echo to Echo 4 Swell Pedal Divide ON/OFF
Great to Great 4 Choir Pedal Divide ON/OFF
Solo Pedal Divide ON/OFF
INDICATOR LIGHTS
Current (white) EXPRESSION PEDALS (left to right)
Alternator (white) Echo/Piano
Sforzando I (red) Choir
Sforzando II (red) Swell/Solo
Crescendo (green) Crescendo
All Swells to Swell (yellow)
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2016-07-19]
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