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The Music Institute of Chicago is one of few community music schools in the nation, to offer organ and harpsichord instruction. MIC is the home of two important, historic pipe organs: a fully restored, three manual, 1914 E.M.Skinner organ in Nichols Concert Hall, and a 1936 Kimball pipe organ. Organ instruction offers piano students the opportunity to uniquely expand their knowledge of historic keyboard instruments and repertoire.
Organ Faculty
Department Chair: James Russell Brown
Specifications of the E.M. Skinner Organ, Opus 208
Organ built by Ernest M. Skinner Company, Boston, Massachusetts
Opus 208 (completed June 1, 1914)
Complete historic restoration (2005-2007)
Jeff Weiler, Pipe Organ Curators and Conservators, Chicago, Illinois
Three manuals and pedal 61/30: 25 ranks, 1569 pipes, 37 drawknobs
Great OrganBourdon 16’ (Ped 1st Bourdon-61 notes) Diapason 8’ (68 pipes) Philomela 8’ (Pedal Diapason) Erzähler 8’ (68 pipes) Gedackt 8’ (Swell) Dulciana 8’ (Swell Aeoline) Octave 4’* (61 pipes) Flute 4’ (Swell) Twelfth 2 2/3’* (61 pipes) Fifteenth 2’* (61 pipes) Cornopean 8’ (Swell)
* added in the 1930s
Choir Organ (enclosed)Geigen Principal 8’ (61 pipes) Concert Flute 8’ (61 pipes) Flute 4’ (61 pipes) Clarinet 8’ (61 pipes) Tremolo |
Swell Organ (enclosed)Bourdon 16’ (68 pipes) Diapason 8’ (68 pipes) Gedackt 8’ (68 pipes) Salicional 8’ (68 pipes) Voix Celestes 8’ (68 pipes) Aeoline 8’ (68 pipes) Unda Maris 8’ (56 pipes-Ten. C) Octave 4’ (68 pipes) Flute 4’ (68 pipes) Flautino 2’ (61 pipes) Posaune 16’ (68 pipes) Cornopean 8’ (68 pipes) Flugelhorn 8’ (68 pipes) Vox Humana 8’ (68 pipes) Tremolo
Pedal OrganDiapason 16’ (73 pipes) First Bourdon 16’(61 pipes) Second Bourdon 16’(Swell) Octave 8’ (Diapason extension) Stillgedackt 8’ (Swell) Posaune 16’ (Swell) |
CouplersSwell to Pedal Great to Pedal Choir to Pedal Swell to Pedal
Swell to Great Choir to Great Swell to Choir
Swell to Swell 16’ Swell to Swell 4’ Swell to Great 16’ Swell to Great 4’ Great to Great 4’ Choir to Great 16’ |
Pistons5 Swell 4 Great 4 Choir 4’ 4 Pedal Set
Gt to Ped Reversible Sforzando Reversible Choir Expression Swell Expression Crescendo
Sw,Gt,Ch to Ped/Comb |
