Better Pipe Organ Database

Rudolf von Beckerath (1972)

Pomona College: Thatcher Music Building, Lyman Hall
Claremont, CA

Images

Unknown - Case Facade and Keydesk (Photograph by Jim Lewis/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
3 manuals
37 stops
4 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Computerized/Digital
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1990 -Database Manager

2012-09-27 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

2017-02-07 - The inaugural concerts of Pomona's Smith Memorial Organ in Thatcher Music Building's Lyman Hall were held on Oct. 18 and 19, 1972. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist Source: <i>The Tracker Organ Revival in America</i> by Uwe Pape Date not recorded

Claremont, California
Pomona College - Thatcher Music Building, Lyman Hall

Rudolf von Beckerath   1972           3 manuals, 37 stops, 52 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN                      SWELL ORGAN
     16' Bordun            56          8' Holzgedackt       56
      8' Prinzipal         56          8' Gemshorn          56
      8' Rohrflöte         56          8' Céleste (TC)      44
      4' Oktave            56          4' Holzflöte         56
      4' Blockflöte        56          2' Prinzipal         56
  2 2/3' Nasat             56          1' Sifflöte          56
      2' Waldflöte         56             Obertöne III     168
  1 3/5' Terz              56        1/2' Cymbel III       168
  1 1/3' Mixtur V         280          8' Trichterregal     56
      8' Trompete          56             Tremulant

         RÜCKPOSITIV                      PEDAL ORGAN
      8' Gedackt           56         16' Principal         32
      4' Principal         56         16' Subbaß            32
      4' Rohrflöte         56          8' Oktave            32
      2' Oktave            56          8' Gedackt           32
  1 1/3' Quinte            56          4' Metallflöte       32
         Sesquialtera II  112          2' Nachthorn         32
      8' Dulzian           56      2 2/3' Mixtur IV        128
         Tremulant                    16' Posaune           32
                                       8' Trompete          32
                                       4' Trompete          32

         Mechanical key action
         Electrical stop action
         5 normal couplers
         6 general combinations
         2 divisional combinations


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2017-02-07]