“ There is no doubt that the Estey factory has, in this notable organ, done something that will write itself across the pages of American organ history.”Įditor, The American Organist: October 1931 Letter/The American Organist: September 1931 Original Stoplist and Description from Dedicatory Concert Program īridges Auditorium of Music, Claremont Colleges, California – November 23, 1931 Stoplist: Estey Organ Magnum Opus 2981 (1931) Skinner, a primary developer of the American school of symphonic style organbuilding. Many of these were innovations of Ernest M. Bach, and builder of many organs Bach played.Īdded to these European styles is the organ’s ‘Solo’ division featuring American ‘Symphonic’ voices such as Violin, Viola, French Horn, Orchestral Trumpet and Oboe, and a unique Saxophone. This Tuba is recognized as the finest such stop in England. Two main sets of “Mixture” pipes are copies of pipes built by Gottfried Silbermann, a personal friend of J. The heroic Tuba Stenora was built by Harrison & Harrison of Durham, England and is a duplicate of the same voice in the Durham Cathedral. The Gamba strings and solo flutes were copied from samples provided by Cavaillé-Coll. Not only were the designs of the various European organbuilding schools employed in the Claremont organ, but several sets of pipes were actually designed and built by the European builders who were key in developing those concepts.įor example, the Trompette was built by the renowned Aristide Cavaillé-Coll of France. Sulpice, Paris), and the organs of Gottfried Silbermann (Hofkirche, Dresden and Freiberg Cathedral). Paul’s Cathedral, London), Harrison & Harrison (Westminster Abbey, London), Noel Bonovia-Hunt (esteemed organ designer and voicer), the Cavaillé-Coll factory (Notre Dame Cathedral and St. Jamison’s research tour included Henry Willis & Sons (St.
“As I went from country to country and heard, tried and studied the best features of national schools of organ design, it seemed to me that no one of them was entirely right or comprehensive, but that a judicious blend of the best features of American, English, French and German practices would result in the most superior of organs, with the broadest tonal palette of all, and without question the most enjoyable of instruments, as well as the most majestic.” Jamison had recently returned from a tour to Europe where he heard, studied, and documented each country’s school of organbuilding. The firm’s tonal director and noted organ architect James B. In 1930 the Claremont Colleges commissioned a large concert organ from the Estey Organ Company of Brattleboro, Vermont for the school’s new Auditorium of Music.
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