Oberlin Conservatory of Music: Warner Hall
Oberlin, OH
OHS convention: 2009
Images
2008-06-25 - Concert Hall Interior, Stage, and Organ Case (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)
2008-06-25 - Organ Case (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)
2008-06-25 - Keydesk (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)
2008-06-25 - Left Drawknobs (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)
2008-06-25 - Right Drawknobs (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)
2008-06-25 - Manual and Builder's Name Stencil (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- 3 manuals
- 44 stops
- Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
- Stop action Type: Mechanical
Notes
2006-04-19 - 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>Replaced 1963 Holtkamp.</i> -Database Manager
2015-10-09 - Inaugural festivities for the new organ took place on November 22 and 23, 1974. On Friday, November 22, E. Power Biggs was conferred with the honorary degree of Doctor of Music, after which the Inaugural Recital was played by Marie-Claire Alain. On Saturday, November 23, three Organ Symposia were held: <i>The Organ in America; Restorations,</i> and <i>Technical Developments.</i> Participants included Mme Alain; Dr. Biggs; Fenner Douglass, Professor of Organ, Duke University; Charles Fisk, organbuilder; Dirk A. Flentrop; Barbara Owen, historian of early American organs and an associate of Charles Fisk; Johannes Steketee, associate of Mr. Flentrop; George Taylor, associate of the John Brombaugh Organ Company; and Harald Vogel, organist and the Director of the Norddeutsche Orgelakadamie, Ottsberg, Germany. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Specification from <i> OHS Organ Atlas 2009: The City of Cleveland and Northern Ohio</i> Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Oberlin, Ohio
Oberlin College Conservatory of Music - Warner Concert Hall
Flentrop Orgelbouw 1974 3 manuals, 44 stops, 72 ranks
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HOOFDWERK BOVENWERK
16' Prestant 56 a 16' Bourdon 56 d
8' Prestant 56 8' Prestant 73 e
8' Roerfluit 56 8' Holpijp 56
4' Octaaf 56 4' Octaaf 56
2 2/3' Quint 56 4' Spitsfluit 56 f
2' Octaaf 56 2 2/3' Nasard 56
1 1/3' Mixtuur V-VI 312 2' Fluit 56 f
2/3' Scherp IV 224 1 3/5' Terts 56
Cornet V (MC) 175 2' Mixtuur V 280
16' Trompet 56 b 1/3' Tertscymbel III 168
8' Trompet 56 8' Shalmey 56
8' Vox Humana 56 8' Dulciaan 56
Hoofdwerk + Rugwerk
Hoofdwerk + Bovenwerk PEDAAL
16' Prestant 30
RUGWERK 16' Subbas (wood) 30
8' Prestant 51 c 8' Octaaf 30
8' Quintadena 56 4' Octaaf 30
8' Gedekt 56 2' Nachthoorn 30
4' Octaaf 56 2' Mixtuur VI 180
4' Roerfluit 56 16' Bazuin (wood) 30 g
2' Octaaf 56 8' Trompet 30
1 1/3' Nasard 56 4' Trompet 30
Sesquialtera II 112 2 Cornet 30
1' Mixtuur IV-V 256 Pedaal + Hoofdwerk
8' Kromhoorn 56 Pedaal + Rugwerk
a CC-EE gedekt
b CC-AA half-length
c CC-EE common with 8' Quintadena
d CC-f#1 wood
e CC-EE common with 8' Holpijp, 32 doubled pipes in the treble
f CC-BB gedekt
g originally 3/4-length mahogany resonators, replaced by Bruce
Shull with full-length hammered lead pipes
Suspended mechanical key action
Mechanical stop action
Tremulants to entire organ: Tremblant doux and Tremblant fort
Wind pressure: 80 mm
Unequal temperament after Andreas Werckmeister, 1691
Facade pipes ca. 97% tin
Interior pipes ca. 30% tin, 70% lead
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2015-10-09]
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