2025-05-10 - Builder's nameplate (Nelson Dodge/Nelson Dodge)
2005-01-08 - Information identifying this instrument from the Austin Organs, Inc. web site, accessed December 31, 2004: http://www.austinorgans.com/organ-research.htm. -Database Manager
2010-05-07 - Updated through on-line information from Phil Browning. -Database Manager
2014-03-24 - Updated through online information from Steven Ottományi. -Database Manager
2018-12-26 - Updated by G. Mark Caldwell, who has heard or played the organ. I corrected the rank count -- the Pedal Bourdon 16' and the Pedal Dulciana 16' are extensions from manual stops. The organ received a factory rebuild in ca. 1985. -Database Manager
2025-05-13 - Updated through online information from Nelson Dodge (May 10, 2025): Nelson Dodge / Church Keyboard hybridized this organ in November 2024 with a new three-manual Rodgers Imagine 351 console, incorporating the seven Austin pipe ranks. Also, Mission San Buenaventura was elevated to the status of a minor basilica by Pope Francis on June 9, 2020 and is now known as Mission Basilica San Buenaventura. -Jim Stettner
Original document from G. Mark Caldwell. Source: Stoplist taken from the console 2018-12-26
Ventura, CA Mission San Buenaventura Organ by Austin Organ Co. 2-manual stopkey console 11 registers, 9 ranks Great Organ 8' Open Diapason 8' Melodia 8' Dulciana 4' Flute Swell to Great 16-8-4 Great to Great 16-4-Unison Off Swell Organ 8' Geigen Diapason 8' Stopped Flute 8' Salicional 4' Flute D'Amor 8' Oboe Tremulant (Austin fan tremulant) Swell to Swell 16-4-Unison Off Pedal Organ 16' Bourdon (Extension, Swell Stopped Flute) 16' Dulciana (Extension, Great Dulciana) Great to Pedal 8 (Reversible, Toe) Swell to Pedal 8-4 Console Accessories Sforzando Reversible (Toe) Combination Action (Electric tripper (hold-set) Great 1-8 (Thumb) Swell 1-8 (Thumb) General 1-8 (Thumb) General 9-12 (Toe) Balanced Expression Pedal (w/indicator) Balanced Register Crescendo Pedal (w/indicator) This organ was rebuilt by the Austin factory, c. 1985. To the best of my knowledge, the organ is still used regularly.
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