> The E.M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List,
> http://home.cfl.rr.com/aeolianskinner/ has quite a few entries for school
> instruments. It would take a bit of research to track down whatever
> happened
> to them. There are public schools, high schools, prep schools (e.g. the
> Choate School), and if one includes institutions of higher education many
> universities and colleges. Our military academies each have notable
> instruments.
>
Well, if you're going to go that way, there is the famous Aeolian-Skinner
at the Groton School in Massachusetts.

If you meant the grown-up military academies, I don't think that's quite
what the guy had in mind (they need not be singled out from other
universities that way and the instrument at West Point is so famous that
it hardly needs mentioning).

However, your post did remind me of a military academy high school organ
in my own home town, Cornwall, New York, which happens to be down the road
from West Point, where my father was a career bandsman.  The chapel of the
New York Military Academy in that town has or at least had a rather famous
theater organ (theater organs are rare enough that they are all famous to
afficionados).  I played it in high school, but can remember nothing about
it except that I realized I didn't like theater organs.

John Brosseau
Bamberg, Germany

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