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Murray M. Harris (Organ Co.) (1908)

Pasadena Presbyterian Church
585 E. Colorado Blvd.
Pasadena, CA

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

Images

Unknown - Church Exterior (Vintage Postcard, courtesy of T. Bradford Willis, DDS (1908)/Database Manager)

Unknown - Organ Case and Chancel (Vintage Postcard, courtesy of William Dunklin (ca. 1908)/Database Manager)

1915-05-07 - Church interior and organ (Photograph from the personal collection of Jim Lewis/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
4 manuals
6 divisions
Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Pressure)
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes

Notes

2007-02-27 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- This was the church's 3rd sanctuary - completed in 1908. The Allen Kinzey / Sand Lawn Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List book gives the date of the Harris as 1905, so it may have been built for the previous (2nd) edifice. A new 4-manual Aeolian-Skinner console was provided in 1947. -Database Manager

2008-05-04 - Updated through online information from Jim Lewis. -- The organ was installed in 1908 along with the building of a new edifice in 1908. -Database Manager

Stoplist

From <i>The King of Instruments in the Crown City</i> by James Lewis Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       Pasadena, California
       Pasadena Presbyterian Church

       Murray M. Harris   1908
       _________________________________________________

       GREAT (*encl w/Choir)            SWELL
   16' Double Open Diapason         16' Bourdon
    8' First Open Diapason           8' Open Diapason
    8' Second Open Diapason          8' Violin Diapason
    8' Gross Flute                   8' Stopped Diapason
 *  8' Viola da Gamba                8' Viola
 *  8' Viol d'Amour                  8' Melodia
 *  8' Gemshorn                      8' Salicional
 *  8' Doppel Flute                  8' Voix Celeste
    4' Octave                        8' Aeoline
 *  4' Harmonic Flute                4' Octave
2 2/3' Octave Quint                  4' Violina
    2' Super Octave                  4' Flauto Traverso
    V  Mixture                       2' Harmonic Piccolo
 * 16' Double Trumpet                V  Cornet
 *  8' Harmonic Trumpet             16' Contra Fagotto
 *  4' Harmonic Clarion              8' Cornopean
                                     8' Oboe
       ECHO                          8' Vox Humana
    8' Echo Diapason                    Tremolo
    8' Viol Etheria                     Sub
    8' Unda Maris                       Super
    8' Orchestral Flute
    8' Zart Flute                       CHOIR
    4' Fern Flute                   16' Double Dulciana
    8' Echo Oboe                     8' Geigen Principal
    8' Vox Humana                    8' Keraulophon
       Tremolo                       8' Concert Flute
                                     8' Quintadena
       PEDAL                         8' Dulciana
   32' Double Open Diapason          4' Fugara
   16' Open Diapason                 4' Wald Flute
   16' Bourdon                       2' Flautino
   16' Violone                       8' Clarinet
   16' Lieblich Gedackt                 Tremolo
   16' Dulciana                         Sub
    8' Octave                           Super
    8' Violoncello
    8' Flute
   16' Trombone
       Pedal Octaves

  [Received online from Jeff Scofield November 17, 2012]

Documents

(1908-02-11) Pasadena Church Organ Inaugural A newspaper article from the Los Angeles Evening Express that describes the 1908 Murray Harris organ and its inaugural event. -Edmond Johnson

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