Better Pipe Organ Database

Rieger Orgelbau (1980)

Pacific Union College: Church
One Angwin Avenue
Angwin, CA

Images

2023-06-03 - Case, en-chamade and console (Photograph by Don Daley, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

1984-09-10 - Chapel interior and organ case (Photograph by Dr. James Mercer/Database Manager)

1984-09-10 - Organ case and en chamade (Photograph by Dr. James Mercer/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Keydesk Attached
4 manuals
59 stops
5 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Has sequencer
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons
Has hitchdown couplers

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1981 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Largest tracker in Central Pacific area. Stoplist in Richmond. Built as III-69r (59st) in 1981 with 4th manual (Brustwerk), Gt. 16 reed and Pedal 32' extensions prepared for. Completed as IV-85 ranks in 1984. [Tikker has complete mixture compositions]; -Database Manager

2010-05-04 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Organ case roughly 16 meters high. Order of divisions from top downward is: Récit, Grande Orgue, Positif, and Echo (in Brustwerk position). Pedal flanking manual divisions on either side. Récit and Echo expressive. -Database Manager

2012-03-13 - Updated through online information from Michael Maiden. -Database Manager

2012-04-06 - Updated through online information from Benn Gibson. -Database Manager

2016-04-03 - Updated through online information from Philip Brown. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Specification from builder's web site Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Angwin, California
Pacific Union College

Rieger Orgelbau   1984                           4 manuals, 57 stops, 77 ranks
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         HAUPTWERK (I)                          BRUSTWERK (IV)
     16' Prastant              56            8' Quintade              56 *
      8' Principal             56            8' Holzgedackt           56 *
      8' Spitzflöte            56            8' Flötenschwebung       56 *
      4' Octav                 56            4' Holzrohrflöte         56 *
      4' Hohlflöte             56            2' Holzprincipal         56 *
      2' Superoctav            56        1 3/5' Terzsept              56 *
  2 2/3' Mixtur major VI      336        1 1/3' Quintan               56 *
    1.2' Mixtur minor IV      224          1/3' Cimbel II            112 *
      8' Cornet V [ten F]     195           16' Regal                 56 *
     16' Trompete              56 *          8' Vox humana            56 *
      8' Trompete              56            4' Regal                 56 *
                                                Tremulant                *
         POSITIV (II)                           Zimbelstern              *
      8' Principal             56
      8' Rohrflöte             56               PEDAL
      4' Octav                 56           32' Untersatz             12 *
      4' Koppelflöte           56           16' Principal             30
  2 2/3' Sesquialter II       112           16' Subbaß                30
      2' Gemshorn              56            8' Octav                 30
  1 1/3' Quintlein             56            8' Spillpfeife           30
      1' Scharff IV           224            4' Choralbaß             30
      8' Krummhorn             56            4' Rohrpfeife            30
      8' Trompette en chamade  56        2 2/3' Rauschpfeife IV      120
         Tremulant                          32' Kontra Bombarde       12 *
                                            16' Bombarde              30
         SCHWELLWERK (III)                   8' Posaune               30
      8' Gamba                 56            4' Schalmei              30
      8' Voix céleste          56
      8' Flûte                 56            *  originally prepared-for;
      4' Montre                56                 completed in 1984
      4' Flûte harmonique      56
  2 2/3' Nazard                56
      2' Quarte de Nazard      56
  1 3/5' Tierce                56
      2' Plein jeu VII        392
     16' Basson                56
      8' Trompette             56
      8' Hautbois              56
      4' Clairon               56
         Tremulant


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2014-12-03]

Websites

Pacific Union College | Rieger Orgelbau - Photograph, stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)