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Murray M. Harris (Organ Co.) Opus 99 (1912)

Third Church of Christ, Scientist: Sanctuary; front
734 South Hope Street
Los Angeles, CA

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


Images


1912-01-01 - Chamber grille (Photograph in private collection of Jim Lewis/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main


Notes

2009-01-29 - This instrument represents the installation of a new organ. Identified through on-line information from jim lewis. -- Three manuals. Ventil chests. Drawknob console, with tilting tablets for couplers located above top manual. Rolltop. Console was partly recessed in a pit at the front of the readers' desk and partly recessed into the walnut panelling. Pipework located behind decorative grille above platform. -Database Manager

2025-05-01 - Updated through online information from Charles Eberline: The building was severely damaged in the 1971 Sylmar earthquake, and the congregation voted to have it demolished rather than pay the large expense of retrofitting it to meet city building codes. According to David Lennox Smith, *Murray M. Harris and Organ Building in Los Angeles, 1894–1913*, page 286, "The organ was sold for parts when the building was torn down." -Jim Stettner

2025-05-01 - According to the book *An Annotated Opus List of the Murray M. Harris Organ Companies* by Jim Lewis, the organ cost $13,500.00. -Jim Stettner


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