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Kimball, Smallman & Frazee Opus 16 (1913)

Harvard Club
Boston, MA

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

Images

1912 - 1912 Kimball, Smallman & Frazee advertisement (the note at the bottom states they were building this very instrument) (Photograph from an archival source: Harvard Newsletter, submitted by Wayne Johnson/Wayne Johnson)

Unknown - Console & Facade, ca. 1915. (Photograph in Church archives, courtesy of Wayne Johnson/Database Manager)

Unknown - Facade, ca. 1915. (Photograph in Church archives, courtesy of Wayne Johnson/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
4 manuals
67 stops
5 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Has crescendo
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

2006-11-14 - Identified through on-line information from Wayne Johnson. -Database Manager

2006-11-15 - Updated through on-line information from Wayne Johnson. -Database Manager

2006-11-16 - Updated through on-line information from Wayne Johnson. -Database Manager

2019-08-21 - Updated by Wayne Johnson, naming this as the source of information: “The Tracker” Volume 57, Number 4, Fall 2013. This organ appears in several text: <br>“The Tracker” Volume 57, Number 4, Fall 2013<br>“The Tracker” Volume 60, Number 1, Spring 2016<br>“The Music News” Volume 13, Issue 1, January 7, 1921 -Database Manager

Stoplist

Original document from Wayne Johnson. Source: Stoplist Don Belben/files of Edward Gammons 2019-08-10

Boston, Massachusetts
Harvard Club

KIMBALL, SMALLMAN & FRAZEE, Opus 16, 1913

GREAT
16'    Open Diapason             61 pipes
8'     First Diapason            61 pipes
8'     Second Diapason           61 pipes
8'     Double Flute              61 pipes
8'     Harmonic Flute            61 pipes
8'     Gamba                     61 pipes
8'     Gemshorn                  61 pipes
4'     Octave                    61 pipes
4'     Harmonic Flute            61 pipes
2 2/3' Octave Quint              61 pipes
2'     Fifteenth                 61 pipes
IV     Mixture                  244 pipes
16'    Double Trumpet            61 pipes
8'     Trumpet                   61 pipes
4'     Clarion                   61 pipes

SWELL (Expressive
16'    Bourdon                   73 pipes
8'     Diapason                  73 pipes
8'     Harmonic Flute            73 pipes
8'     Stopped Diapason          73 pipes
8'     Quintadena                61 pipes
8'     Salicional                73 pipes
8'     Voix Celeste        (tc)  61 pipes
8'     Aeoline                   73 pipes
4'     Octave                    73 pipes
4'     Flauto Traverso           73 pipes
4'     Violina                   73 pipes
2'     Flautino                  61 pipes
III    Dolce Cornet             183 pipes
16'    Horn                      73 pipes
8'     Cornopean                 73 pipes
8'     Oboe                      73 pipes
8'     Vox Humana                61 pipes
4'     Clarion                   73 pipes
       Tremolo

CHOIR (Expressive)
16'    Dulciana                  61 pipes
8'     Diapason                  61 pipes
8'     Concert Flute             61 pipes
8'     Bourdon                   61 pipes
8'     Dulciana                  61 pipes
8'     Unda Maris                61 pipes
4'     Flute d'Amour             61 pipes
4'     Violina                   61 pipes
2'     Piccolo                   61 pipes
8'     Clarinet                  61 pipes
       Tremolo

SOLO (Expressive)
8'     Stentorphone              61 pipes
8'     Grossflote                61 pipes
8'     Gross Gamba               61 pipes
8'     Gamba                     61 pipes
8'     Voix Celeste              61 pipes
4'     Flute                     61 pipes
8'     Tuba Mirabilis            61 pipes
8'     Orchestral Oboe           61 pipes

PEDAL
32'    Double Diapason           12 pipes (extension)
16'    First Diapason            32 pipes
16'    Second Diapason           32 pipes
16'    Violone                   32 pipes
16'    Bourdon                   12 pipes
16'    Lieblich Gedeckt          (Sw)  --
16'    Dulciana                  (Ch)  --
10 2/3' Quint                    (Bour)  --
8'     Octave                    32 pipes
8'     Cello                     32 pipes
8'     Flute                     12 pipes (extension)
8'     Gedeckt                   32 pipes
4'     Super Octave              32 pipes
32'    Contra Bombarde           12 pipes (extension)
16'    Trombone                  32 pipes
8'     Tromba                    32 pipes
4'     Clarion                   32 pipes

Documents

(2000-01-01) . On-line update from Wayne Johnson. -Database Manager

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