Scot Huntington on January 2nd, 2023:
This was Schlicker's first major commission for a University, and resulted in a steady number of commissions thereafter, largely for universities in the mid-west, and Lutheran colleges and churches in particular, most notably St. Olaf in Minnesota and Valaraiso University in Indiana. This large A-frame chapel was designed by the eminent architectural firm Eero Saarinen & Associates, also favored by Lutheran denominations from the late 50s and through the 1960s. The organ was designed by Herman Schlicker in collaboration with Dean Carl Halter and consultant Paul Bunjes of Concordia Teacher's College, River Forest, Illinois. Bunjes would go on to become a frequent collaborator with the Schlicker company in particular, designing instruments in an extreme neo-baroque style, and who was the author of a substantial treatise on "The Praetorius Organ" in the late 1960s for which Schlicker built a display organ with sample pipes built to supposed Praetorian specifications with extremes in scaling between male (narrow) and female (wide) scaling diameters. The Kramer Chapel organ was subsequently altered by Roderer, Noack, and Buzard, with a new solid-state console by Noack and Terrill in the 1990s.

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Database Manager on May 21st, 2018:
Subsequent tonal changes by Roderer in 1970 and Noack in 1990, at which time Dudley Terrill built a new Schlicker-style console; the organ was renovated and cleaned by Buzard 2000-2002, with minor renovations and tonal changes by them in 2008.

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Database Manager on January 11th, 2012:
Updated through online information from Paul Grime.

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Database Manager on February 13th, 2007:
Identified through information on the Seminary web site.