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Murray M. Harris (Organ Co.) (1898)

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

Images

1900 - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/bce/id/669/rec/4, submitted by Rev. Dr. Van Herd/Rev. Dr. Van Herd)

1900 - Organ facade (Photograph from an archival source: https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/bce/id/171, submitted by Rev. Dr. Van Herd/Rev. Dr. Van Herd)

Consoles

Main

• Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
• Console position: Keydesk Attached
• 3 manuals
• 25 stops
• 24 registers
• 4 divisions
• Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
• Stop action Type: Mechanical
• Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
• Manual compass: 58 notes
• Pedal compass: 27 notes
• Pedal Type: Flat Straight
• Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
• Combination action: None
• Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - The original builder was Geo. Kilgen & Son (1887). -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Kilgen moved by Harris to new building. Moved again in 1923 to 1728 W. 6th St. (by whom)? Building & organ sold 1927. Used by several denominations after 1927. The Full Gospel Tabernacle, Los Angeles, CA owned it in 1978, & sold the organ through OCH to Holy Rosary R. C., Edmond, WA. [Was this in a chapel of First Baptist at any time?] -Database Manager

2008-07-02 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

First Baptist Church (Full Gospel Tabernacle),  Los Angeles, CA
1887 Geo. Kilgen & Son/1898 Murray Harris
(Stoplist: David Schnute from Tr 16:2:15)

GREAT
8' Open Diapason
8' Viol d'Gamba
8' Melodia
4' Principal
4' Flute Harmonic
3' Twelfth
2' Fifteenth
8' Trumpet

SWELL
16' Bourdon
8' Open Diapason
8' Stopped Diapason
8' Dolce
4' Violina
4' Flauto traverso
III Dolce Cornet
8' Bassoon
8' Oboe
Vox Tremolo

CHOIR
8' Geigen Principal
8' Dulciana
4' Flute d.Amour
2' Piccolo
8' Clarionet

PEDAL
16' Grand Open Diapason
16' Bourdon
8' Violoncello

SW-GT, CH-GT, SW-CH, GR-PED, SW-PED, CH-PED

Bellows Signal; 

Gt. Forte
Gt. Piano
Gt to Ped Rev
Balanced Swell Pedal

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

• #3510 - Richard L. Bond (1981)
• #8954†* - Geo. Kilgen & Son, Inc. (1887)

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