Severance Hall
11001 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH
Images
2023-04-18 - Norton Memorial Organ Dedication Plaque (orchestra level, near Green Room) (Photograph by ERIC J GASTIER/ERIC J GASTIER)
Unknown - Great pipework and tone chute in stage ceiling (Cleveland Orchestra archives, courtesy of Eric J. Gastier (1950's)/Database Manager)
Unknown - Console (Cleveland Orchestra archives, courtesy of Eric J. Gastier (1950's)/Database Manager)
Unknown - Pedal division including 32' reed (Cleveland Orchestra archives, courtesy of Eric J. Gastier (1950's)/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
- Console position: Movable Console
- 4 manuals
- 71 stops
- 86 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: 32 notes
- Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Notes
2004-10-30 - Norton memorial organ. Installed 1931. Tone blocked by 1958 orchestral shell. Relocated in building and restored in 2000. 6024 pipes. Stoplist is in the pre-1955 edition of Barnes, The Contemporary American Organ. -Database Manager
2006-05-15 - 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>Inaugurated March 6, 1931 by Palmer Christian; extant and unaltered; currently unusable. [1997)</i> -Database Manager
2007-02-20 - Updated through online information from Don Daley. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Stoplist from OHS Convention <i>Organ Atlas 2009</i> Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Cleveland, Ohio
Severance Hall
Skinner Organ Company Opus 816 1929 4 manuals, 71 stops, 94 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN (8" wind) SWELL ORGAN (6" wind)
16' Double Diapason 61 16' Melodia 73
8' First Diapason 61 8' Diapason 73
8' Second Diapason 61 8' Rohrflute 73
8' Third Diapason 61 (in CH) 8' Salicional 73
8' Harmonic Flute 61 8' Voix Celeste 73
8' Gedeckt 61 (in CH) 8' Flauto Dolce 73
8' Viola 61 (in CH) 8' Flute Celeste (TC) 61
8' Erzähler 61 (in CH) 8' Echo Gamba 73
5 1/3' Quinte 61 8' Echo Gamba Celeste 73
4' Octave 61 4' Octave 73
4' Flute 61 (in CH) 4' Flute Triangulaire 73
2 2/3' Twelfth 61 2' Flautino 61
2' Fifteenth 61 V Cornet 305
VII Chorus Mixture 427 (12-15-17-19-22)
(15-19-22-26-29-33-36) V Mixture 305
IV Harmonics 244 (15-19-22-26-29)
(17-19-flat 21-22) 16' Waldhorn (10" wind) 73
16' Trumpet (10" wind) 61 8' Trumpet (10" wind) 73
8' Tromba (10" wind) 61 8' French Trumpet 73
4' Clarion (10" wind) 61 8' Oboe d'Amore 73
Chimes SO 8' Vox Humana 73
High Pressure Reeds SO 4' Clarion (10" wind) 73
Tremolo
CHOIR ORGAN (6" wind) 8' Harp CH
16' Gamba 73 4' Celesta CH
8' Geigen 73
8' Concert Flute 73 PEDAL ORGAN (6" wind)
8' Gamba 73 32' Major Bass 32
8' Dulciana 73 16' Diapason 32
8' Dulcet II 146 16' Contra Bass 32
4' Octave 73 16' Diapason GT
4' Flute 73 16' Bourdon 12
2 2/3' Nazard 61 16' Melodia SW
2' Piccolo 61 16' Dulciana 32
1 3/5' Tierce 61 16' Gamba CH
1 1/3' Larigot 61 8' Octave 12
III Carillon (12-17-22) 183 8' Gedeckt 12
16' Fagotto 73 8' Cello CH
8' Orchestral Trumpet 73 8' Still Gedeckt SW
8' Orchestral Oboe 73 4' Super Octave 12
8' Clarinet 73 IV Mixture (5" wind) 128
Tremolo (10-12-flat 14-15)
8' Harp (TC) -- 32' Bombarde (20" wind) 32
4' Celesta (10" wind) 61 bars 32' Fagotto (10" wind) 12 CH
16' Trombone (15" wind) 12
SOLO ORGAN (10" wind) 16' Waldhorn SW
8' Flauto Mirabilis 73 16' Fagotto CH
8' Gamba 73 8' Tromba 12
8' Gamba Celeste 73 Chimes SO
4' Orchestral Flute 73
16' Corno di Bassetto 73
8' Tuba Mirabilis (18") 73
8' French Horn (18") 73
8' English Horn 73
8' Corno di Bassetto 73
4' Tuba Clarion (18") 73
Tremolo
Chimes 25 tubes
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2016-07-19]
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