Wood, president of the Worcester Festival Association and Aldus C. Elliot, the New York representative of the Kimball Company Hamilton B. and choral director at Chautauqua, New York he was assisted in the planning process by R. The magnificent AUD organ was designed by Walter Howe, official organist, assistant director, and manager of the Worcester Music Festival head of music at Abbot Academy, Andover organist at First Baptist Church, Arlington, Mass. In spite of the economy and business conditions, Kimball came through with extraordinary quality in craftsmanship and musical results. The AUD instrument was built in their last decade, one of the last large instruments they produced.
Instead, they downsized their operation, and concentrated more on pianos, while still building an occasional organ until 1942. By 1933, Kimball was deeply in the red and there was talk of closing. (There are no chairs currently in the Great Hall main floor, and its balconies are off-limits.)Īfter the economic boom of the 1920s, organ building fell on hard times: Hook & Hastings (the successor to E & GG Hook, builder of The Worcester Organ at Mechanics Hall) folded in 1935 Skinner closed its Westfield MA branch in 1929 and absorbed the defunct Aeolian Organ Company in 1932 (to become Aeolian-Skinner). Hirons of New York, cost $2,000,000 and was opened in 1933, in “memory of those who died in the war.” The auditorium originally seated 4,500 the (original) stage accommodated a chorus of 500 and the elevating orchestra pit provided space for 100 musicians. The elegant Art-Deco building, designed by Lucius Biggs of Worcester and Frederic C.
Kimball organ generator#
1955(?) & 1957 Virgil Fox – T&G Reviews (that fateful generator power supply!).Interesting Competitive Specs Proposal by Aeolian-Skinner Organ Historical Society Plaque given 1983ġ933 Kimball $40K Contract & Original Specs
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