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James Madison High School
3787 Bedford Avenue at Quentin Road
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11229
http://schools.nyc.gov/SchoolPortals/22/K425/default.htm
James Madison High School, located on Bedford Avenue at the corner of Quentin Road, was completed in the year 1925. It contained a football field, tennis and handball courts, and a large indoor swimming pool.
Notable alumni of James Madison High School include: Cal Abrams, Major League Baseball Player; Larry Baxter, Professional Basketball Player; Gary Becker, Nobel Prize Winner - Economics; Mimi Benzell, Opera Singer; Albert Blumenthal, New York State Assembly Leader; Andrew Dice Clay, Comedian; Norm Coleman, US Senator (Minnesota); Stanley Cohen, Nobel Prize winner; Sonny Fox, TV Personality; William Gaines, Publisher of Mad Magazine; Marty Glickman, Olympian, Sports Broadcaster; Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court Justice; Stanley Kaplan, Educational Testing Innovator; Stanley Karnow, Pulitzer Prize Author; Carole King (Klein),singer/songwriter; Martin Landau, Actor; Rudy LaRusso, Professional Basketball Player; John William Malone, U.S Congressman; Bruce Morrow, "Cousin Brucie" of Radio; Sylvia Porter, Financial Columnist; Chris Rock, Comedian; Herb Rosenblum, Broadcast Journalist, Author; Dmitriy Salita, Boxer, NABA Light-Welterweight Champion; Bernard Sanders, U.S. Senator (Vermont); Charles Schumer, U.S. Senator (New York); Irwin Shaw, Novelist; Judy Blum Sheindlin, Judge/TV Personality; Claire Shulman Kantoff, Queens Borough President; Janis Siegel, Singer; Robert Solow, Nobel Prize Winner-Economics; Frank Torre, Professional Baseball player; Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, University President; Roger Shulman, Screenwriter ALF, Shrek; Thaddeus Boyd (1980), an African American realist and actor (Tears of the Sun); Howie Klein, President of Reprise/Warner Bros. Records between 1989 and 2001. |
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M.P. Möller, Inc.
Hagerstown, Md. – Opus 4491 (1926)
Electro-pneumatic action
3 manuals, 38 registers, 31 stops, 31 ranks
In January 1925, the M.P. Möller company received a contract to build seven identical organs for high schools in the boroughs of New York City. High Schools receiving the new organs included Julia Richman (Op. 4485) and George Washington (Op. 4486) in Manhattan; and Thomas Jefferson (Op. 4487), Girls' Commercial (Op. 4488), New Utrecht (Op. 4489), and James Madison (Op. 4491) in Brooklyn; and Flushing High School (Op. 4492) in Queens.
The Möller organ in the auditorium of James Madison High School was the sixth of the seven organs to be installed, and it had a three-manual stop-key console. Wind pressure for the organ was 5 inches, except for the 16' Tuba, which was on 10 inches. The status of this organ is unknown.
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Great Organ (Manual II) – 61 notes, enclosed with Choir except as noted
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Major Diapason * |
73 |
8 |
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Clarabella |
73 |
8 |
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English Diapason * |
73 |
4 |
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Harmonic Flute |
73 |
8 |
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Gamba |
73 |
4 |
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Octave |
73 |
8 |
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Gross Flute |
73 |
8 |
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Tuba |
73 |
8 |
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Dulciana |
CH |
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* unenclosed |
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Swell Organ (Manual III) – 61 notes, enclosed
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16 |
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Lieblich Gedeckt |
73 |
2 |
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Flautino |
73 |
8 |
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Open Diapason |
73 |
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Dolce Cornet III ranks |
— |
8 |
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Stopped Flute |
73 |
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(derived from 2' Flautino) |
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8 |
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Salicional |
73 |
8 |
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Oboe |
73 |
8 |
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Vox Celeste (TC) |
61 |
8 |
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Cornopean |
73 |
8 |
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Aeoline |
73 |
8 |
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Vox Humana (sep. box & trem.) |
61 |
4 |
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Rohr Flute |
73 |
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Tremulant |
4 |
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Gambette |
73 |
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Choir Organ (Manual I) – 61 notes, enclosed with Great
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Contra Dulciana |
85 |
2 |
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Piccolo (Harmonic) |
61 |
8 |
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Geigen Principal |
73 |
8 |
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Clarinet |
73 |
8 |
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Concert Flute |
73 |
8 |
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English Horn |
73 |
8 |
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Dulciana (fr. 16') |
— |
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Tremulant |
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8 |
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Viol Celeste |
73 |
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4 |
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Flute d'Amour |
73 |
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Pedal Organ – 32 notes
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Resultant |
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8 |
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'Cello |
32 |
16 |
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Open Diapason |
32 |
8 |
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Flute (GT Gross Flute) |
GT |
16 |
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Bourdon |
32 |
16 |
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Tromba (ext. GT) |
12 |
16 |
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Lieblich Gedeckt |
SW |
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Couplers
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Great to Pedal 8', 4' |
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Swell to Choir 16', 8', 4' |
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Swell to Pedal 8', 4' |
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Great 16', 4' |
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Choir to Pedal 8', 4' |
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Swell 16', 4' |
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Swell to Great 16', 8', 4' |
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Choir 16', 4' |
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Choir to Great 16', 8', 4' |
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Piston Combinations (Adjustable at Organ Bench and Moving Registers)
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| Swell Organ |
Pistons 1-2-3-4-5 (thumb) |
| Great Organ |
Pistons 1-2-3-4 (thumb) |
| Choir Organ |
Pistons 1-2-3-4 (thumb) |
| Pedal Organ |
Pistons 1-2-3 (thumb) |
| Full Organ |
Pistons 1-2-3-0 (toe) |
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When operating Pedal Pistons all stop action must automatically be cancelled (without affecting the position of the stop registers) thereby allowing the performer to prepare in advance while playing any combination desired which may be brought into operation at the desired moment by pressing Release Pistons. |
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Pedal Movements
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Balanced Swell Pedal |
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Great to Pedal Reversible |
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Balanced Choir and Great Pedal |
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Crescendo-Sforzando Pedal |
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Accessories
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Swell Tremulant |
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Choir Tremulant |
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Wind Indicator |
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Crescendo Indicator |
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Electric Action Generator |
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Electric Motor & Rotary Blower |
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Indicator Lights for Pedal Pistons |
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Organ Bench with Music Shelf |
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