Better Pipe Organ Database

Greg Harrold Organbuilders Opus 3 (1980)

St. Matthew's Episcopal Church
1031 Bienveneda Avenue
Pacific Palisades, CA

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Keydesk Attached
1 manuals
6 stops
1 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Suspended Tracker)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 53 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: No Enclosed Divisions
Combination action: None

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1996. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Pulldown pedal. Unequal temperament, A-440. Wind pressure 3 (76mm) -Database Manager

2008-01-21 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- First building destroyed in the October 1978 Brentwood/Malibu fires. Contract signed in 1979 for a new Fisk organ, but construction and delivery not anticipated until 1985. Rector Arnold Fenton insisted on an organ for the parish while they worshipped in the school gymnasium, resulting in the commission of the Harrold organ. 3-sectional facade consisting of 23 pipes arranged: 3-17-3. Facade pipes able to be enclosed by folding doors. Pull-down pedal. Werckmeister I (III) temperament. A=440. 3" w.p. 8, 8, 4, 2, II Ses., II Mix. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist Source: From builder's website Date not recorded

Pacific Palisades, California
St. Matthew Episcopal Church

Greg Harrold Organbuilders   Opus 3   1980
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          MANUAL
       8' Gedackt                 53
       8' Viola da gamba (c25)    29
       4' Principal               53
       2' Octave                  53
          Sesquialter II (c25)    58
          Mixtur II              106

          PEDAL
          Pulldown

          Tremulant

Manual, 53 notes, C-e’’’
Pedal, 27 notes, C-d’

a'=440
Werckmeister III temperament
Wind pressure 76 mm (3")


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2017-08-24]

Websites

Opus 3 [Builder's web site] - Stoplist, photograph (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)