Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co.
1936

Database Manager on November 20th, 2018:
Updated by Michael Barone, who has heard or played the organ. <br> <br>All original pipework and chests were repaired and retained. Though the pipework stands on what was the original chamber floor, it no longer speaks through a tone-chute and instead delivers directly into the reduced-size auditorium. Projection and detail are much enhanced over the original layout, though some overall sense of opulence has been sacrificed as a result of the reduction of cubic volume in the room.

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Database Manager on November 20th, 2018:
Updated by Bruce Jacobs, listing this web site as a source of information: http://www.northrop.umn.edu/events/northrops-historic-pipe-organ-resounding-success. <br> <br>The auditorium size has been dramatically reduced, allowing the acoustical shell which had obstructed the sound of the organ to be removed.

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Database Manager on July 10th, 2017:
Updated by Douglas Johnson<br> The organ is in the process of reinstallation by Foley-Baker

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Database Manager on April 17th, 2015:
Updated through online information from Stephen Hall. -- The hall was rebuilt between 2011 and 2014, and the organ was placed in storage. The hall re-opened in 2014 with fewer seats but greatly improved acoustics. On April 2, 2015, University president Eric Kaler announced the presentation of a four million dollar gift to the university, part of which would be used to return the organ to Northrop Hall. (source Minneapolis Post article dated 4/03/2015)

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Database Manager on March 2nd, 2011:
Updated through online information from Richard C Greene. -- The Northrop Auditorium is being rebuilt. The room will be downsized from a 4800 seat to a 2800 seat auditorium. Foley-Baker, Inc. has removed the 1936, 108r G. Donald Harrison Aeolian Skinner. The chambers are being redesigned, and the grille will be made more sound-transparent. There are no plans to change the specification or tonal design of the organ.

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Database Manager on November 16th, 2006:
Identified 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> Additions to Op. 892B (1934)</i>