Harvard University: Busch-Reisinger Museum / Adolphus Busch Hall
27 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA
OHS convention: 2000
Images
2023-06-05 - Organ case (Photograph by Diane Meredith Belcher, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2023-06-05 - Room tor rear and organ case (Photograph by Diane Meredith Belcher, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2023-06-05 - Console (Photograph by Diane Meredith Belcher, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
1999-05-04 - Gallery and Organ Cases (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)
1999-05-04 - Manuals and Builder's Name Stencil (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)
2008-11-13 - Organ case. (Photo by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)
2008-11-13 - Organ gallery (Photo by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)
2024-03-07 - Storage trays for "exchangeable ranks" on Borstwerk and Hauptwerk (Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
2024-03-07 - Storage trays for exchangeable pipes (Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
2024-03-07 - Borstwerk Stops with labels showing the possible exchange of pipes: Dulciaan 8' with Shalmei 2' (Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
2024-03-07 - Closeup of Borstwerk division (Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
2024-03-09 - Building exterior (Andrew Scanlon/Scanlon Andrew)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
- Console position: Keydesk Attached
- 3 manuals
- 27 stops
- 27 registers
- 4 divisions
- Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
- Stop action Type: Mechanical
- Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
- Manual compass: 56 notes
- Pedal compass: 30 notes
- Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
- Combination action: None
Notes
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 2000. -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - "Formerly Busch Reisinger Museum. Several stops are listed as interchangeable. (extra pipes provided which are stored behind the case). New rollerboards and pedalboard by Andover Organ Co. shortly after original installation. Refurbishment and voicing review, re-engineering of pedal pallets and Manual I wind system in 1998 by Noack Organ Co." -Database Manager
2007-03-05 - Updated through information adapted from <i>E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List</i>, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: <br><i>Replaced Aeolian-Skinner Opus 951.</i> -Database Manager
2011-11-04 - Updated through online information from Matthew Hall. -Database Manager
2024-03-07 - Performed here today. The organ is in excellent working order. The 8' Dulciaan in the BORSTWERK division can be substituted with a 2' Shalmei, the pipes of which are stored in trays connected to the left side of the organ case. It was said that the Hauptwerk 2' flute can also be swapped for a Principal 2. See photos. -Andrew Scanlon
Stoplist
Missing from this stoplist is a Dulzian 8' in the BORSTWERK division. The 8' Dulzian was replaced with a 2' Shalemei and those pipes are stored in trays built into the side of the case. (from Andrew Scanlon, 2024-03-07) Source: Taken from record "Music for Organ and Brass - E. Power Biggs Approximately 1970
Hoofdwerk Prestant 8, Roerfluit 8, Octaaf 4, Speelfluit 4, Nasard 2 2/3, Vlakfluit 2, Terts 1 3/5, Mixtuur IV
Rugpositief Holpijp 8, Prestant 4, Roerfluit 4, Gemshoorn 2 , Quint 1 1/3, Mixtuur II, Kromhoorn 8
Borstwerk Zingend Gedekt 8, Koppelfluit 4, Prestant 2, Sifflet 1, Cymbel I, Shalemei 2
Pedaal Bourdon 16, Prestant 8, Gedekt 8, Fluit 4, Mixtuur III, Fagot 16, Trompet 8
Rugpositief to Hoofdwerk 8, Borstwerk to Hoofdwerk 8, Hoofdwerk to Pedaal 8, Rugpositief to Pedaal 8, Borstwerk to Pedaal 8
Stoplist from <i>The American Organist</i> December 1958 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Harvard University
Busch-Reisinger/Germanic Museum
Flentrop 1957 3/33
HOOFDWERK RUGPOSITIEF
8' Prestant 8' Holpijp
8' Roerfluit 4' Prestant
4' Octaaf 4' Roerfluit
4' Speelfluit 2' Gemshorn
2 2/3' Nasard 1 1/3' Quint
2' Vlakfluit II Mixtuur
1 3/5' Terts 8' Kromhoorn
IV Mixtuur
PEDAAL
BORSTWERK 16' Bourdon
8' Zingendgedekt 8' Prestant
4' Koppelfluit 8' Gedekt
2' Prestant 4' Fluit
1' Sifflet III Mixtuur
I Cymbel 16' Fagot
8' Trompet
[Received on line from Jeff Scofield June 09, 2009.]
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