Pipe Organ Database

a project of the organ historical society

Unknown Builder (1899)

Originally Hilborne L. Roosevelt (Opus 93, 1882)

Location:

Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Oberlin, OH US
Warner Hall
Organ ID: 23381

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Status and Condition:

  • This instrument's location type is: Conservatories and Independent Music Schools
  • The organ has been rebuilt or substantially revised.
  • The organ's condition is unknown.
We received the most recent update for this instrument's status from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.

Technical Details:

  • Chests: Information unknown or not applicable
  • 47 ranks. 2,350 pipes. 3 manuals. 40 stops.
All:
We received the most recent update for this division from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Main:
  • Manuals: 3
  • Stops: 40
  • Manual Compass: 58
  • Pedal Compass: 30
We received the most recent update for this console from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Database Manager on January 20, 2015:

This organ was originally built in 1882 for Harold Chandler Kimball and installed in his residence in Rochester, N.Y. The organ was given to Oberlin in 1899 and installed in Warner Hall.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Database Manager on July 20, 2008:

Updated through online information from William Gravesmill. -- Oberlin Organ student (1953) The Skinner rebuild of this instrument was rebuilt again by Walter Holtkamp (1959-62) for "old Warner concert hall", then rebuilt by Walter Holtkamp, Jr.in 1964 for New Warner Concert Hall, then rebuilt a final time and currently installed by Christian Holtkamp at Hemmle Hall, Texas Tech University, Lubbock.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Database Manager on April 19, 2006:

Identified through information adapted from E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn:
Second-hand installation. Replaced by Skinner Opus 667 (1927).

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Source not recorded: Open In New Tab Specification from <i>Bulletin of OberlinCollege</i>, Feb. 1, 1904
We received the most recent update for this stoplist from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.

Instrument Images:

Warner Concert Hall, organ case and attached console.: Vintage postcard mailed May 3, 1912, courtesy of Will Dunklin.

None: Photograph from Sebastian M. Glück. Taken approx. 1904-01-01