Organs in Cuba
  • ghmus7
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    Does anyone know if there are any exiting pipe organs in Cuba? I thought there may have been a Caville-Coll at one time in Havana.
  • Daniel Bennett PageDaniel Bennett Page
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    There appears to be a blog devoted to this subject: https://havanaorgans.wordpress.com/
  • Jeffrey Quick
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    Indeed there are! As far as I can gather from the Net, Castro's boys were less Cromwellian with organs than your typical post-V2 American parish.
    This is a recent installation in Havana's oldest church, claiming to be the first 2-manual instrument in Cuba (which it isn't)
    Skinner Op. 584 is in Holy Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, but is apparently not in a playable state.
    Aeolian Op. 1755 is in the Dupont Mansion in Varadero, also not playable.
  • BruceL
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    If you're a member of the Facebook Organists group, I believe there was a discussion in the past few months, because someone "schooled me" on an organ I thought I knew in Havana!
  • ghmus7
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    You guys (and gals) are awsome. There are some photos of the Skinner in the Epis. Cath. On the ohs database site.
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