Pipe Organ Database

Flentrop Orgelbouw (1957)

Exhibited in the 2000 OHS convention(s)

Location:

Harvard University
27 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138 US
Busch-Reisinger Museum / Adolphus Busch Hall
Organ ID: 4174

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Status and Condition:

This instrument's location type is: Colleges and Universities
The organ is unaltered from its original state.
The organ's condition is good, in regular use.

We received the most recent update for this instrument's status from Paul R. Marchesano on April 29, 2022.

Technical Details:

Chests: Slider
33 ranks. 1,655 pipes. 4 divisions. 3 manuals. 27 stops. 27 registers.

Divisions

All:

Chest Type(s): Slider chests
Position: In a gallery-level case at the rear of the room.

We received the most recent update for this division from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.

Consoles

Main:

Manuals: 3
Divisions: 4
Stops: 27
Registers: 27
Position: Keydesk attached.
Manual Compass: 56
Pedal Compass: 30
Key Action: Mechanical connection from key to chest (tracker, sticker or mix).
Stop Action: Mechanical connection between stop control and chest.
Console Style: Traditional style with a keyboard cover that can be lifted to form a music rack.
Stop Controls: Drawknobs in vertical rows on flat jambs.
Combination Action: No combination action.
Pedalboard Type: Concave radiating pedalboard.

We received the most recent update for this console from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.

Notes

Database Manager on May 07, 2018:

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.

Database Manager on May 07, 2018:

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.

Database Manager on November 04, 2011:

Updated through online information from Matthew Hall.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.

Database Manager on March 05, 2007:

Updated through information adapted from E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: 
Replaced Aeolian-Skinner Opus 951.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.

Database Manager on October 30, 2004:

Status Note: There 2000.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.

Database Manager on October 30, 2004:

"Formerly Busch Reisinger Museum. Several stops are listed as interchangeable. (extra pipes provided which are stored behind the case). New rollerboards and pedalboard by Andover Organ Co. shortly after original installation. Refurbishment and voicing review, re-engineering of pedal pallets and Manual I wind system in 1998 by Noack Organ Co."

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.

Stoplists

Source not recorded: Open In New Tab Stoplist from <i>The American Organist</i> December 1958
We received the most recent update for this stoplist from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.

Taken from record "Music for Organ and Brass - E. Power Biggs: Open In New Tab Originally published Approximately 1970
We received the most recent update for this stoplist from Solomon Wickline on March 10, 2021.