Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2015-10-27 - Altered and relocated existing organ. Identified by Edmond Johnson, using information found in Archival Materials (Special Collections, Occidental College). -- -Database Manager
Stoplist copied from dedication program booklet (October 16, 1955) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Los Angeles, California
Occidental College
Alumni Chapel, Johnson Hall
Murray M. Harris / Los Angeles Art Organ Co., op. 49 (See note below)
The Georgina Milligan Skjeie Memorial Organ
GREAT ORGAN
8 Open Diapason 61
8 Melodia 61*
8 Dulciana 61
8 Viola da Gamba 61
4 Flute d'Amour 61
SWELL ORGAN
16 Bourdon 61
8 Violin Diapason 61
8 Stopped Diapason 61
8 Salicional 61
8 Voix Celeste (tc) 49
4 Harmonic Flute 61
Tremulant
PEDAL ORGAN
16 Bourdon 32
16 Gedeckt (swell) --
*The ca.1905 stoplist includes a 8' Concert Flute in the place of the 8' Melodia.
It is unclear whether this is a new rank or simply a change in nomenclature.
Note: This organ was built ca. 1905 by the Los Angeles Art Organ Company,
the successor firm to the Murray M. Harris Organ Company. Originally installed
as a residence organ at Scripps Hall in Altadena, it was acquired by Occidental
College in 1955 and reinstalled in Alumni Chapel. In David Lennox Smith's _Murray
M. Harris: Organ Building in Los Angeles, 1894-1913_ (OHS, 2005) it states that
"the original Fleming chests were retained and rebuilt by Pipe Organs Inc. An
Estey console and a few new ranks were added." The program booklet for the organ's
1955 dedication attributed the organ to Murray M. Harris, though that name was not
used at the time of the instruments construction and Harris himself passed away over
the thirty years before the organ was moved to Occidental College. It is not known
what name, if any, was affixed to the console.
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