Saturday, September 20, 2008

Aeolian-Skinner Organ at ASU

Carol and I go to Arizona State University every summer to take some high school students to study Mars with the Mars Student Imaging Project (MSIP). While Carol and the students work at the Mars Space Flight Facility with the scientists, I sneak over to the Music building where I borrowed the keys to the practice organs. The most recent organ that they acquired is an Aeolian-Skinner that was originally build in 1937 for the chapel of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia. The organ is in a practice room which is only slightly larger than the organ, so the pictures that I took cannot show you the entire organ because the camera's field of view is too small.

The organ console located underneath the swell shade.

The organ console with stoptabs. Here is the stoplist:
Pedal
Bourdon 16'
Diapason 8'
Flute 8'
Viola 4'
Flute 4'

Swell
Viola 8'
Gedackt 8'
Viola 4'
Flute 4'
Nazard 2 2/3
Piccolo 2'
Tremolo - Not Functional

Great
Diapason 8'
Viola 8'
Gedackt 8'
Octave 4'
Viola 4'
Flute 4'
Nazard 2 2/3'
Fifteenth 2'

The plaque on the side of the organ where I got this information.

I will post post pictures of the other practice organs on my organ crawl in the ASU music building later.