Holtkamp Organ Co.
Opus 1680, 1955ca.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kresge Auditorium
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA, US
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CONSOLES
Builder: Unknown
Position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
Design: Non-Traditional Style, As Consoles by Holtkamp, Schlicker, et al
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Features:
3 Manuals 41 StopsElectrical Key ActionElectrical Stop Action✓ Combination Thumb Piston(s)✓ Coupler Toe Piston(s)✓ Sforzando Toe Piston(s)Stop Layout: Tilting/Rocking Tablets Above Top Manual
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination Action: Setterboard
Control System: Unknown or N/A
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DETAILS
This instrument is: Extant and Playable in this location
Updated through online information from Jim Overly.
The organ is just barely usable. Several stops on the great organ and one stop on the pedals are 'always on' Many ranks are in need of tuning. There is a professional who is looking at the organ and I have heard word that MIT is considering doing a restoration. This was observed by myself as I played the instrument at the Cambridge Symphony concert in November.
Database Manager on November 10th, 2009:
Updated through on-line information from Zach Bjornson.
Database Manager on October 26th, 2009:
Updated through on-line information from Zach Bjornson.
Database Manager on December 22nd, 2008:
Identified through information published in John Ferguson's Walter Holtkamp: American Organ Builder (DMA treatise, Eastman School of Music, 1976). Although neither Votteler-Holtkamp-Sparling nor their successor Holtkamp Organ Co. assigned Opus numbers to their instruments, this organ was identified in factory documents as Job number 1680. That number appears here as the Opus number of this instrument.
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