Database Manager on February 12th, 2016:
Organ relocated without any change. Identified by David Poile, using information from this web site: www.flentrop.nl. This two-manual, nine-stop organ was built by Flentrop Orgelbouw in 1973 for display at the International Organ Festival in St. Albans. According to Flentrop's website, after the festival it was moved to Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Cleveland. This organ was likely loaned temporarily to the Cathedral while either their 1976 two-manual, thirteen-stop organ or their 1977 three-manual, thirty-nine stop organ was being built by the Dutch firm. The date of this installation in Trinity Cathedral is uncertain, but it is probably 1974. [ed.: later clarified as 1973] The contract for the large gallery organ was ca. 1974. According to John Fesperman in his book "Flentrop in America" in July 1974 after the contract was signed, the Cathedral's architect altered Flentrop's original design for the gallery organ. This upset the organbuilder and he personally travelled to Cleveland in November 1974 with Hans Steketee to defend his original design. Perhaps this is when he also delivered the St. Albans organ. In 1977, this St. Albans organ was moved to Warren Wilson College in Swannanona (Asheville), NC. Fesperman, however, lists this Wilson College organ as a new one built in 1976. There is no evidence that there are two organs by Flentrop at this college.

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Database Manager on February 27th, 2011:
Updated through on-line information from Will Dunklin. -- The Flentrop website says this: This organ was built for the international organ festival in Saint Albans in 1973. Afterwards it stood for some time in Trinity Cathedral in Cleveland Ohio USA until the new chancel organ for that cathedral could be installed. In 1977, it moved to the newly built Fine Arts Center of Wilson College (Swannanoa, North Carolina).

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Database Manager on September 25th, 2007:
Although the Uwe Pape book referenced below does contain mention of a two-manual and pedal instrument for Trinity Episcopal Church in Cleveland, Daniel Hathaway (Organist at Trinity) reports that there was never a Flentrop from 1973 in the church. It is possible that a contract was signed then, that plans were made but never executed, or that the entry is in error and actually refers to a different institution. The fact remains that the entry lists the organ, but that the organ was never built and delivered to the church in 1973.