2021-11-22 - Identified from the Aeolian opus list as listed in Rollin Smith's book, *The Aeolian Pipe Organ and its Music.* (OHS Press, 2nd Edition, © 2018) The organ was contracted September 15, 1924 for a cost of $25,000.00. It was shipped January 14, 1925. A Duo-Art was included. When Ringling died in 1936, he willed the property to the State of Florida. The home now operates as a Museum, art gallery, and learning center. The organ is extant. -Jim Stettner
2021-11-22 - From the Sarasota History Alive! website, *"A three console organ has a manual compass of 61 notes each and pedal board is 32 notes. It is playable from the manuals and pedal with the Aeolian Duo-Art Solo music rolls. The Duo-Art mechanism automatically operates the stops, tempo, and expression. All stops of the Great, Swell, Choir and Echo have seventy-three pipes each. The Solo organ stops have sixty-one pipes. The Great and Choir has eight ranks of pipes, the Swell has nine ranks with the Solo having seven and echo having five ranks of pipes. The pedal has six ranks making a total of forty-seven ranks including a five-rank mixture. It also has a sixty-one note Harp and a twenty note Chime. The Echo and Solo are playable from each of the three manuals. There are also twenty-two couplers. The organ is installed as the heart of the Ca’d’Zan, directly opposite the fireplace in the main great hall known as the “Court.” The organ served as the focal point during evening festivities.” Multiple chambers are located throughout the structure to accommodate the two-thousand two hundred eighty-nine organ pipes. The main pipe-chamber for the organ is located behind the console on the second-story mezzanine strategically placed behind a seventeenth-century tapestry purchased from the estate of Vincent Astor. An Echo Chamber is also installed on the same level in the northeast corner of the mezzanine, concealed behind another early Flemish tapestry. The organ speaks through the tapestry with orchestral sound. The enormous array of hand-made pipes range in size from ten feet in length to the size of a pencil and are constructed of lead, zinc, tin and wood. The main pipe-chamber encompasses areas of the second and third stories of the house."* -Jim Stettner
Source: Taken from Contract August 12, 1924
The Aeolian Co. (Opus 1559, 1924) Residence: John Nicholas Ringling - Ca'd'zan Sarasota, FL Great 1. 8' Diapason 2. 8' String (P) 3. 8' Flute (F) 4. 8' Flute (P) 5. 4' Flute High 6. 2' Piccolo 7. 8' Trumpet 8. 8' Clarinet Swell 9. 8' Diapason (Horn) 10. 8' Flute 11. 8' String (F) 12. 8' String Vibrato (F) 13. 8' String Vibrato (P) 14. 8' String (PP) 15. String Mixture 16. 8' Oboe 17. 8' Vox Humana Choir (Compounded from Great Organ upon the Patent Compound Windchest System) 18. 8' Diapason 19. 8' String (P) 20. 8' Flute (F) 21. 8' Flute (P) 22. 4' Flute High 23. 2' Piccolo 24. 8' Trumpet 25. 8' Clarinet Solo (Playable from Great, Swell, and Choir keyboards) 26. 8' Diapason 27. 8' Flute 28. 8' String* 29. 8' String Vibrato* 30. 8' Tuba 31. 8' French Horn 32. 8' Saxophone *- Compounded for Duo-Art only Echo (Playable from Great, Swell, and Choir keyboards) 33. 8' Flute 34. 8' Flute Vibrato 35. 8' Dulciana 36. 8' Dulciana Vibrato 37. 8' Vox Humana Pedal 38. 16' Diapason (Deep) 39. 16' String (Deep) 40. 16' Flute (Deep) 41. 8' Diapason* 42. 8' Flute* 43. 8' Tuba* *- From Solo Percussion Instruments (Playable from Great, Swell, and Choir Keyboards) 44. Harp- 61 Notes (With F & P control) 45. Chimes- 20 Notes (With F & P control) Couplers 46. Swell to Great 47. Swell to Choir 48. Swell Octave to Great 49. Swell Sub to Great 50. Swell Octave 51. Swell Sub 52. Swell Unison Release 53. Swell to Pedal 54. Swell Octave to Pedal 55. Choir to Great 56. Choir Sub to Great 57. Choir Octave 58. Choir Sub] 59. Choir Unison Release 60. Choir to Pedal 61. Choir Octave to Pedal 62. Great Octave 63. Great Sub 64. Great Unison Release 65. Great to Pedal 66. Great Octave to Pedal 67. Pedal Release
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