Grace Cathedral, Episcopal: Cathedral
1100 California Street
San Francisco, CA
Images
2021-09-11 - Console (Photograph by Grace & St. Peter Church, Baltimore/Jeff Scofield)
2012-08-14 - Cathedral interior (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)
2012-08-14 - Cathedral interior to rear and gallery organ (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)
2012-08-14 - Console (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)
2012-08-14 - Cathedral interior to rear (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)
Unknown - Altar and Organ Cases (Vintage Postcard; image courtesy of T. Bradford Willis/Database Manager)
2014-04-27 - Console (Photograph by Bryan Dunnewald/Database Manager)
2014-04-27 - Left Organ Case (Photograph by Bryan Dunnewald/Database Manager)
2014-04-27 - Bombarde Organ Case and Stained Glass Windows (Photograph by Bryan Dunnewald/Database Manager)
2014-04-27 - Cathedral Nave (Photograph by Bryan Dunnewald/Database Manager)
2014-04-27 - Chancel Organ Cases (Photograph by Bryan Dunnewald/Database Manager)
2014-04-27 - Gallery Organ Case (Photograph by Bryan Dunnewald/Database Manager)
2014-04-27 - Console (Photograph by Bryan Dunnewald/Database Manager)
2024-07-04 - Console (Jeffrey Dexter/Jeff Scofield)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Movable Console
- 4 manuals
- 107 stops
- 7 divisions
- Key action Type: Electrical
- Stop action Type: Electrical
- Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
- Manual compass: 61 notes
- Pedal compass: 32 notes
- Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has combination toe pistons
- Has coupler thumb pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
- Has tutti thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2004-10-30 - The original builder was Aeolian-Skinner (1933, Opus 910). -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1995 -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Addition of Bombarde and Gallery divisions by Casavant Freres in 1979 -Database Manager
2006-11-17 - Updated through information adapted from <i>E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List</i>, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: <br><i>Addition of Bombarde and Gallery divisions to Aeolian-Skinner Opus 910-A (1952).</i> -Database Manager
2014-08-31 - Updated through online information from Bryan Dunnewald. -- New console by Schoenstein. -Database Manager
Stoplist
From organ brochure on cathedral web site Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co., Inc. Opus 910-A 1952 4 manuals, 107 stops, 125 ranks
Showing additions by Casavant Frères (1973-4) and Schoenstein & Co. (2001)
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GREAT ORGAN (II) SOLO ORGAN (IV)
16' Diapason 61 8' Flauto Mirabilis 73
8' First Diapason 61 8' Gamba 73
8' Second Diapason 61 8' Gamba Celeste 73
8' Flute Harmonique 61 8' Harmonic Flute 73
8' Stopped Diapason 61 8' Tuba Major (unenclosed) 61 a
8' Gemshorn 61 8' Tuba Mirabilis 73
5 1/3' Quint 61 8' French Horn 61
4' Octave 61 8' English Horn 73
4' Principal 61 4' Clarion 73
4' Flute 61 Tremulant
3 1/5' Grosse Tierce 61 8' Harp (TC) --
2 2/3' Twelfth 61 4' Celesta 49 bars
2' Fifteenth 61
2' Blockflöte 61 GALLERY ORGAN (floating)
1 3/5' Tierce 61 16' Pedal Principal 32 b
IV Fourniture 244 8' Diapason 56 b
III Cymbal 183 4' Octave 56 b
16' Double Trumpet 61 2' Fifteenth 56 b
8' Trumpet 61 1 1/3' Mixture VIII 448 b
4' Clarion 61
8' Tuba Major SO a BOMBARDE (floating)
(division silenced March 2001)
SWELL ORGAN (III) 8' Montre 61 b
16' Lieblich Gedeckt 73 4' Octave 61 b
8' Geigen 73 2' Doublette 61 b
8' Stopped Diapason 73 Cornet V (TC) 245 b
8' Gamba 73 VII Mixture 427 b
8' Voix Celeste 73 16' Bombarde 61 b
8' Echo Gamba Celeste II 134 8' Trompette 61 b
8' Flauto Dolce 73 4' Clairon 61 b
8' Flute Celeste (TC) 61
4' Principal 73 PEDAL ORGAN
4' Harmonic Flute 73 32' Diapason 7
4' Spitzflöte 73 16' Open Bass 32
2 2/3' Nazard 61 16' Diapason 32
2' Fifteenth 61 16' Bourdon 32
1 3/5' Tierce 61 16' Lieblich Gedeckt SW
III Plein Jeu 183 16' Violone 44
III Scharf 183 16' Gemshorn CH
16' Posaune 73 16' Gamba (from 16' Diap) GT
8' Trompette Harmonique 73 10 2/3' Quint 32
8' Cornopean 73 8' Octave 32
8' Oboe 73 8' Flute 32
8' Vox Humana 73 8' Cello (from Violone) --
4' Clarion 73 8' Still Gedeckt SW
Tremulant 6 2/5' Grosse Tierce 32
Zimbelstern 6 bells 5 1/3' Octave Quint 32
4' Super Octave 32
CHOIR ORGAN (I) 4' Flute 32
16' Gemshorn 73 2' Blockflöte GT
8' Viola Pomposa 73 III Mixture 96
8' Viola Celeste 73 32' Contre Bombarde 68
8' Melodia 73 16' Bombarde (from 32') --
8' Lieblich Gedeckt 73 16' Posaune SW
8' Erzähler 73 8' Trompette (from 32') --
8' Kleine Erzähler (TC) 61 4' Clairon (from 32') --
4' Gemshorn 73 8' Tuba Major SO
4' Lieblich Flute 73
2 2/3' Nazard 61
2' Piccolo 61
1 3/5' Tierce 61
1' Sifflöte 61
III-IV Zimbel 213
8' Trompette 73
8' Clarinet 73 a Added by Schoenstein & Co., 2001
Tremulant b Added by Casavant Frères, 1973-4
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2014-08-25]
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