Civic Auditorium
San Francisco, CA
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
Images
Unknown - Console in storage (Photograph by Organ Clearing House, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
Unknown - Console in storage (Photograph by Organ Clearing House, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
1918-06-05 - Stage and Pipe Facade (Photo from the California State Library Collection; image courtesy of Jim Lewis/Database Manager)
1963-06-01 - Console (Promotional photo in the private collection of Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
1915 - 1915 console (Austin Organ Co./Jeff Scofield)
Consoles
Original
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Movable Console
- 4 manuals
- 6 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)
- Has crescendo
- Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has combination toe pistons
- Has tutti thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Replacement console (1963)
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Movable Console
- 4 manuals
- 6 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)
- Has crescendo
- Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
- 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 - Installed by Schoenstein Organ Co. (Austin Rep.) in Oct 1914. Cleaned with new console in 1962. Damaged in 1989 earthquake. Shipped to Austin in Hartford, CT for restoration. Work now stopped, and future uncertain (1995). -Database Manager
2008-07-31 - Updated through on-line information from Timothy Tikker. -- The organ is in storage in Brooks Hall, an underground facility in front of Civic Auditorium. The organ has been completely restored, except for those parts destroyed in the 1989 earthquake, which have not yet been replaced. The organ's final home is not yet determined. The on-line video gives a history of the organ, and calls attention to a campaign to return the organ to its original location in Civic Auditorium (now Bill Graham Auditorium). The organ's present console dates from c. 1964 -- built by Austin. -Database Manager
2013-05-13 - Updated through online information from Vic Ferrer. -Database Manager
2023-06-15 - The City of San Francisco has listed the instrument with Organ Clearing House, June 2023.
https://www.organclearinghouse.com/organs-for-sale#/3141-austin-san-francisco -Andy Rose
Stoplist
Stoplist copied from <i>The American Organist</i> December 1918 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
San Francisco, California
Panama-Pacific Exposition Auditorium
Austin Op.500 1915
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GREAT SWELL
16' Double Open Diapason 16' Bourdon
16' Bourdon 16' Contra Dulciana
8' Open Diapason 1 8' Open Diapason 1
8' Open Diapason 2 8' Open Diapason 2
8' Open Diapason 3 8' Lieblich Gedeckt
8' Stopped Diapason 8' Spitzfloete
8' Harmonic Flute 8' Clarabella
8' Gemshorn 8' Salicional
8' Philomela 8' Voix Celeste
8' Viola Gamba 8' Viole d'Orchestre
8' Dulciana 8' Aeoline
4' Octave 4' Principal
4' Flute Harmonique 4' Flute Harmonique
4' Gambette 4' Wald Floete
2 2/3' Twelfth 2' Piccolo Harmonique
2' Fifteenth IV & V Mixture
III Sesquialtera 16' Contra Posaune
IV & V Mixture 8' Harmonic Trumpet
16' Double Trumpet 8' Cornopean
8' French Trumpet 8' Oboe
8' Posaune 8' Vox Humana
4' Clarion 8' Unda Maris
Cathedral Chimes Tremulant
Sub
CHOIR Unison Off
16' Contra Gamba Super
8' Open Diapason
8' Gamba SOLO
8' Concert Flute 8' Concert Flute
8' Hohl Flute 8' Viole d'Orchestre
8' Quintadena 8' Viole Celeste
8' Flauto Dolce 8' Dolce
8' Flute Celeste 4' Harmonic Flute
8' Dulciana 2' Harmonic Piccolo
4' Octave 8' Tuba Magna
4' Flute Harmonique 8' Tuba Mirabilis
4' Suabe Flute 8' Harmonic Trumpet
2' Harmonic Piccolo 8' French Horn
III Dolce Cornet 8' Orchestral Oboe
8' Harmonic Trumpet 8' Corno di Bassetto
8' Clarionet 8' Flugel Horn
8' Cor Anglais 8' Vox Humana
Tremulant Tremulant
Sub
Unison Off ECHO (on Solo)
Super 16' Lieblich Bourdon
Celesta 8' Small Diapason
8' Gamba
PEDAL 8' Chimney Flute
64' Gravissima 8' Cor de Nuit
32' Double Open Diapason 8' Dolce
32' Contra Violone 8' Unda Maris
16' Open Diapason 1 4' Flauto Dolce
16' Open Diapason 2 8' Vox Humana
16' Open Diapason 3 Tremulant
16' Bourdon Solo-Echo Sub
16' Violone Solo-Echo Unison Off
16' Lieblich Bourdon Solo-Echo Super
16' Dulciana
10 2/3' Gross Quint ECHO (on Choir)
8' Violoncello 16' Lieblich Bourdon
8' Gross Flute 8' Small Diapason
8' Flauto Dolce 8' Gamba
8' Octave Dulciana 8' Chimney Flute
4' Octave Flute 8' Cor de Nuit
32' Contra Bombarde 8' Dolce
16' Trombone 8' Unda Maris
16' Tuba 4' Flauto Dolce
16' Posaune 8' Vox Humana
8' Octave Trombone Tremulant
4' Clarion Cathedral Chimes
[Received online from Jeff Scofield November 17, 2012]
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