Jim Stettner on July 14th, 2024:
Updated through online information from Scott Henry (July 13, 2024): First Presbyterian Church, Grand Forks, ND, bought the last pipe organ made in 1971 by the legendary Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. Inc. in Boston before it went out of business. Per Grand Forks Herald, August 14, 2010
Database Manager on August 30th, 2018:
Originally installed in the downtown building in 1972, using the facade of the existing organ; it was relocated to the new building outside of town in 1999; the organ was offered for sale in 2009 to 'help pay down the costs of the move'
Database Manager on July 23rd, 2012:
Updated through online information from Richard C Greene. -- In 2009 the organ was reported for sale.
Database Manager on June 27th, 2012:
Updated through online information from John Panning. -- Organ for sale on eBay.
Database Manager on April 1st, 2009:
Updated through online information from Richard C Greene. -- In March, 2009, THE DIAPASON reported that "the last Aeolian-Skinner built" was for sale by the church.
Database Manager on July 5th, 2008:
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> Extant; last new instrument completed by AEolian-Skinner.</i>