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Austin Organ Co. Opus 1032 (1922)

Regent Theatre (Loew's)
410 Market St.
Harrisburg, PA

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Images

Unknown - Console, circa 1964 (Photograph by Charles Coakwell/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
3 manuals
26 stops
33 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons

Notes

2004-12-21 - Information identifying this instrument from the Austin Organs, Inc. web site, accessed December 20, 2004: http://www.austinorgans.com/organ-research.htm. -Database Manager

2014-07-20 - Theatre razed in 1961. -Database Manager

2016-01-24 - Updated through online information from Stephen Hall. <br>Removed from theater and installed in St. Philip's Methodist Church in Philadelphia, Pa. That move and re-installation happened sometime in the late 1940's or in the 1950's per Charles Coakwell, organist at St. Phillip's 1960-64. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from <i>The Diapason</i> August 1921 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

    Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
    Loew's Regent Theatre

    Austin   Op. 1032   1922   3/26
    ________________________________________________

    GREAT (encl w/Orch)          ORCHESTRAL
16' Bourdon           73     16' Contra Viole     73
 8' Open Diapason     73      8' Viola            73
 8' Major Flute       73      8' Viola Celeste    61
 8' Gamba             73      8' Concert Flute    73
 8' Claribel Flute    73      8' Flute Celeste    73
 4' Octave            73      4' Harmonic Flute   73
 4' Wald Flute        73      8' Clarinet         73
 8' Harmonic Tuba     73      8' Orchestral Oboe  73
    Sub                          Tremolo
    Unison Off                   Sub
    Super                        Unison Off
    Chimes            20         Super
                                 Harp             61
    SWELL
 8' Open Diapason     73         PEDAL
 8' Stopped Flute     73     32' Resultant Bass   --
 8' Viole d'Orchestre 73     16' Open Diapason    32
 8' Viole Celeste     61     16' Bourdon          GT
 4' Flauto Traverso   73     16' Contra Viole     12 OR
 2' Flageolet         61      8' Flute            12
16' Contra Fagotto    73      8' Orchestral Cello OR
 8' Trumpet           73     16' Tuba Profunda    12 GT
 8' Vox Humana        61     16' Contra Fagotto   SW
    Tremolo
    Sub
    Unison Off
    Super

   [Received online from Jeff Scofield July 20, 2014]

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