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Owner (1987)

Keswick Theatre
291 North Keswick Avenue
Glenside, PA

Images


Unknown - Auditorium Interior, Console, and Chamber Grillework (Image courtesy of the Library of Congress/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main


Notes

2011-02-06 - Identified through online information from David Crow. -- This organ moved from original installation 1928 in Sedgwick Theatre, Mount Airy, Philadelphia to Keswick Theater Glenside, PA at a date to be specified upon further research. It is actively used for concerts in 2011. -Database Manager

2012-12-25 - Updated through online information from Jim Lewis. -- The original organ in the Keswick Theatre was Æolian's opus 1689 -Database Manager

2014-05-24 - Updated through online information from Gregg Patruno. -- The organ went into storage sometime after Sedgwick Theatre closed in 1966, and moved to Keswick Theatre in 1987. -Database Manager


Stoplist

From Theatre Organ Society of the Delaware Valley web site Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Glenside, Pennsylvania
Keswick Theatre

M.P. Möller, Inc.   Opus 5230   1928                    3 manuals, 19 ranks
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       MAIN CHAMBER (Left)                     SOLO CHAMBER (Right)
    8' French Trumpet                       8' Post Horn
   16' Tuba Harmonic                        8' English Horn
    8' Clarinet                             8' Kinura
    8' French Horn                          8' Vox Humana
    8' Horn Diapason                        8' Viole d'Orchestre
    8' Gemshorn                             8' Viole d'Orchestre Celeste II
    8' Gemshorn Celeste                    16' Diaphone
   16' Viole                               16' Tibia Clausa
   16' Tibia Plena
   16' Concert Flute

       TUNED PERCUSSIONS        TOY COUNTER             SOUND EFFECTS
       Harp Celesta             Tambourine              Police Siren
       Cathedral Chimes         Castanets               Auto Horn
       Glockenspiel             Bass Drum               Boat Whistle
       Xylophone                Kettle Drum             Bird Call
       Upright Piano            Cymbal                  Wood Block
         (unenclosed)           Triangle
                                Chinese Gong


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2014-10-19]


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