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Estey Organ Co. Opus 23 (1902)

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

Consoles

Main

• Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
• Console position: Keydesk Attached
• 2 manuals
• 7 stops
• 7 registers
• 3 divisions
• Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
• Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
• Manual compass: 61 notes
• Pedal compass: 30 notes
• Pedal Type: Flat Straight
• Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
• Combination action: None

Notes

2007-07-03 - Identified by James R. Stettner through information from the Estey Opus List, published in The Boston Organ Club newsletter, 1973-1979. -Database Manager

2007-07-05 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Originally built for W. H. Hart who owned some kind of store in Philadelphia. Acquired before 1915 by Portland, Oregon resident Asa Lovejoy. Shipped around Cape Horn to Portland. Later relocated several times. -Database Manager

2007-11-01 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Clarification: This organ was installed in the Hart residence, and was sold from the Estey store in Philadelphia. Stops were by the pat'd. Haskell "miniature keyboard" placed over the Swell manual. -Database Manager

2008-06-01 - Updated through online information from Phil Stimmel. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist Source: From builder's website Date not recorded

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
W. H. Hart Residence

Estey Organ Co.   Opus 23   1902
________________________________

       GREAT ORGAN
    8' Open Diapason      61
    8' Dulciana           61
    4' Violina            61

       SWELL ORGAN
    8' Stopped Diapason   61
    8' Salicional         49
         (1-12 St. Diap.)
    4' Harmonic Flute     61
       Sw. Tremolo

       PEDAL ORGAN
   16' Bourdon            30

       COUPLERS
       Swell to Pedal
       Great to Pedal
       Swell to Great
       Swell to Great 8ves

       PEDAL MOVEMENTS
       Swell Expression


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2018-05-30]

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