Better Pipe Organ Database

Gregor Hradetzky II (1971)

Residence: Thomas Harmon
Pacific Palisades, CA

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

Images

1990-02-05 - Organ case (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1990-02-05 - Keydesk with manuals and stops (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
10 stops
10 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: None
Has hitchdown couplers

Notes

2004-10-30 - Moved to University of Portland, Portland, OR. -Database Manager

2013-02-19 - Updated through online information from James R.Stettner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the console February 5, 1990 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Pacific Palisades, California
Residence: Dr. Thomas Harmon, Ph.D.

GREGOR HRADETZKY, 1971 - Original Specifications


HAUPTWERK                                    COUPLERS (Drawknob)
   [8]     Flöte                    58          Copelzug   [BW/HW]
   [4]     Principal                58          Pedal - I
   [2]     Oktav       [en facade]  58          Pedal - II 


BRUSTWERK                                    FOOT LEVERS (Labeled; l-r; h-d)                
   [8]     Copel   [Holzgedeckt]    58          BW/HW
   [4]     Fl. Dolce                58          HW/Ped
   [1-1/3] Quint                    58          BW/Ped
   [8]     Vox Humana               58
           Tremolo

                                             ACTION: Mechanical Key & Stop
PEDAL
   [16]    Bordun Bass              32       VOICES: 10         STOPS: 10
   [8]     Gedeckt Bass             32
   [4]     Octav Bass               32       RANKS: 10          PIPES: 502


NOTES
This organ was originally built for and installed at the home of Thomas Harmon, Ph.D.
(Professor of Organ at University of CA. In Los Angeles) in Pacific Palisades, CA. It
was sold to the University of Portland in the spring of 1987.

The organ is free-standing and encased with an attached, projecting keydesk. The ex-
pression shutters are quite unique. They are vertical, and each “shutter” is divided
into thirds, with the left section at the back, the next section in the middle, and
the right section is stationary. As the swell shoe is pressed, the left (back) section
slides to the right, catching the middle section, and pulling it along until the two
moveable sections have lined-up behind the right (front) section.

The names of the stops but not their pitches are displayed.


Sources: School files in Portland; JRS; extant organ in Portland

 [Received from James R. Stettner 2013-02-17.]

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