Jim Stettner on September 24th, 2024:
The organ as built when Robert L. Sipe was the Executive Vice President of Aeolian-Skinner.
Database Manager on November 29th, 2012:
Updated through online information from Kristina Powers. -- Organ relocated to Providence Methodist Church in Charlotte, NC.
Database Manager on November 28th, 2012:
Updated through online information from William Dunklin. -- An article in the online Washington Post, February 28, 2009, called "Kennedy Center Needs a New Pipe Organ" by Anne Midgette, details in layman's terms the numerous problems with the Skinner and the decision to replace the ailing instrument.
Database Manager on March 2nd, 2009:
Updated through online information from William Rowland. -- This organ has been severely water damaged and recommendations by the Dobson firm were that it be replaced because it is beyond normal repair.
Database Manager on July 3rd, 2008:
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: Installed in 1971; extant with slight mechanical and tonal changes; Pedal reeds replaced in 1975; console rebuilt by Lawless & Associates in 1993; minor tonal changes by Lawless & Associates in 1992-93.