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The Aeolian Co. Opus 1560 (1925)

Residence: Harry Scott Steele
355 S. Holliston Avenue
Pasadena, CA

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


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1989-03-31 - Console (Photograph by Jim Lewis/Database Manager)

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2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1990 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Residence donated in 1988 to California Inst. of Technology. Restored 1990 by David Junchen. New SS relay system, but original preserved.Trousdale digital performance system added. -Database Manager

2010-06-02 - Updated through online information from Steven E. Lawson. -Database Manager

2010-08-25 - Updated through online information from Jeremy Wance. -- Two-story chamber extends below basement level. Choir, Pedal, Harp and Chimes are all below-grade, with Great and Swell stacked above. All speak through a grill. Manual divisions are all under expression. Voiced on 4" wind, apparently throughout. Choir division on Pitman chest. Swell and Great on Ventil chests. Original combination action and player mechanisms survive, though superseded by the system installed by Junchen in 1990. At that time, some re-winding of the instrument was accomplished, plus releathering of Great, Swell and reservoirs. Choir was not releathered. -Database Manager


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