Pipe Organ Database

a project of the organ historical society

Flentrop Orgelbouw (1974)

Exhibited in the 2009 OHS convention(s)

Location:

Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Oberlin, OH 44074 US
Warner Hall
Organ ID: 728

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Status and Condition:

  • This instrument's location type is: Conservatories and Independent Music Schools
  • The organ has an unknown or unreported status.
  • The organ's condition is unknown.
We received the most recent update for this instrument's status from Paul R. Marchesano on July 06, 2022.

Technical Details:

  • Chests: Slider
  • 72 ranks. 3,501 pipes. 3 manuals. 44 stops.
All:
  • Chest Type(s): Slider chests
We received the most recent update for this division from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Main:
  • Manuals: 3
  • Stops: 44
  • Key Action: Mechanical connection from key to chest (tracker, sticker or mix).
  • Stop Action: Mechanical connection between stop control and chest.
We received the most recent update for this console from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Database Manager on October 09, 2015:

Inaugural festivities for the new organ took place on November 22 and 23, 1974. On Friday, November 22, E. Power Biggs was conferred with the honorary degree of Doctor of Music, after which the Inaugural Recital was played by Marie-Claire Alain. On Saturday, November 23, three Organ Symposia were held: The Organ in America; Restorations, and Technical Developments. Participants included Mme Alain; Dr. Biggs; Fenner Douglass, Professor of Organ, Duke University; Charles Fisk, organbuilder; Dirk A. Flentrop; Barbara Owen, historian of early American organs and an associate of Charles Fisk; Johannes Steketee, associate of Mr. Flentrop; George Taylor, associate of the John Brombaugh Organ Company; and Harald Vogel, organist and the Director of the Norddeutsche Orgelakadamie, Ottsberg, Germany.

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

Updated 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:
Replaced 1963 Holtkamp.

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> OHS Organ Atlas 2009: The City of Cleveland and Northern Ohio</i>
We received the most recent update for this stoplist from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.

Instrument Images:

Concert Hall Interior, Stage, and Organ Case: Photograph by William T. Van Pelt. Taken on 2008-06-25

Organ Case: Photograph by William T. Van Pelt. Taken on 2008-06-25

Keydesk: Photograph by William T. Van Pelt. Taken on 2008-06-25

Left Drawknobs: Photograph by William T. Van Pelt. Taken on 2008-06-25

Right Drawknobs: Photograph by William T. Van Pelt. Taken on 2008-06-25

Manual and Builder's Name Stencil: Photograph by William T. Van Pelt. Taken on 2008-06-25