Sesquicentennial Exposition: Grand Auditorium and Ballroom
Broad Street and Packer Avenue
Philadelphia, PA
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
Images
Unknown - Console (Photograph from an archival source: THE DIAPASON July 1926 p.12, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
1926 - One of the 32' Violone pipes being carried into the Auditorium building at the Sesquicentennial Exposition (Photograph from an archival source: Paul R Marchesano, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)
1926-05-31 - Sesquicentennial ground map; Auditorium is No. 5 at the main entrance (Photograph by Paul R Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)
1926 - Console in Auditorium Building at the Sesquicentennial, unidentified organist (Photograph from an archival source: Sesquicentennial Archives, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)
1926-08-24 - Console and C. Walter Wallace, Organist (Image courtesy of the Library of Congress/Database Manager)
1926 - 32' Violone pipes on truck being delivered to the original site (Paul Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)
1926 - 32' Violone pipes on truck being delivered to the original site (Paul Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
- 4 manuals
- 190 stops
- 6 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)
- Has crescendo
- Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has combination toe pistons
- Has coupler thumb pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
- Has tutti thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe 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
2005-03-09 - Installed in the Grand Auditorium Building on the Sesquicentennial Fair Grounds, which seated 20,000. -Database Manager
2005-03-09 - Adjustable Swell shoe coupling. -Database Manager
2005-03-09 - Organ was purchased from Saul Freeman, Auctioneer upon dissolution fo the Sesquicentennial Exposition by Cyrus H. K. Curtis and donated to the University of Pennsylvania. -Database Manager
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