Los Angeles, California
Occidental College
Alumni Chapel, Johnson Hall

Murray M. Harris / Los Angeles Art Organ Co., op. 49 (See note below)
The Georgina Milligan Skjeie Memorial Organ

GREAT ORGAN 

8   Open Diapason     61 
8   Melodia           61*
8   Dulciana          61
8   Viola da Gamba    61
4   Flute d'Amour     61


SWELL ORGAN

16  Bourdon           61
8   Violin Diapason   61
8   Stopped Diapason  61
8   Salicional        61
8   Voix Celeste (tc) 49
4   Harmonic Flute    61
    Tremulant

PEDAL ORGAN

16  Bourdon           32
16  Gedeckt (swell)   --


*The ca.1905 stoplist includes a 8' Concert Flute in the place of the 8' Melodia. 
It is unclear whether this is a new rank or simply a change in nomenclature. 


Note: This organ was built ca. 1905 by the Los Angeles Art Organ Company, 
the successor firm to the Murray M. Harris Organ Company. Originally installed 
as a residence organ at Scripps Hall in Altadena, it was acquired by Occidental 
College in 1955 and reinstalled in Alumni Chapel. In David Lennox Smith's _Murray 
M. Harris: Organ Building in Los Angeles, 1894-1913_ (OHS, 2005) it states that 
"the original Fleming chests were retained and rebuilt by Pipe Organs Inc. An 
Estey console and a few new ranks were added." The program booklet for the organ's 
1955 dedication attributed the organ to Murray M. Harris, though that name was not 
used at the time of the instruments construction and Harris himself passed away over 
the thirty years before the organ was moved to Occidental College. It is not known 
what name, if any, was affixed to the console.  





 [Received from Edmond Johnson 2015-11-01.]