Better Pipe Organ Database

Kegg Pipe Organ Builders (2008)

Christ Episcopal Church
625 15th Street
Eureka, CA

Images

2008-05-24 - Console (Photograph by Charles Kegg/Database Manager)

Unknown - Altar and Organ Case ((2008) Photograph by Charles Kegg/Database Manager)

2025-01-08 - Builder's nameplate (Christopher Ketcham/Christopher Ketcham)

2025-01-08 - Left stopjamb (Christopher Ketcham /Christopher Ketcham)

2025-01-08 - Right stopjamb (Christopher Ketcham/Christopher Ketcham)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Movable Console
3 manuals
26 stops
60 registers
3 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 hitchdown couplers

Notes

2008-06-05 - Identified through online information from Stephen Hall. -- Organ installed in April, tonal finishing in May, first used for service on June 8. Unenclosed portion of the Great is in center case under the window, enclosed portion in right chamber. Swell in left chamber, Pedal distributed throughout. Solo manual borrows stops from Great and Swell, no independent stops. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist Source: From builder's website Date not recorded

Eureka, California
Christ Episcopal Church

Kegg Pipe Organ Builders   2008                  3 manuals, 26 stops, 32 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN (I)                         SWELL ORGAN (II)
     16' Violone                 73          16' Gedeckt               73
      8' Principal               61           8' Diapason              61
      8' Violone (fr. 16')       --           8' Gedeckt (fr. 16')     --
      8' Rohrflute               61 *         8' Salicional            61
      8' Harmonic Flute          61 *         8' Voix Celeste (TC)     49
      8' Flauto Dolce            61 *         4' Octave                61
      8' Flute Celeste (TC)      49 *         4' Nachthorn             73
      4' Octave                  61       2 2/3' Nazard                61
      4' Koppelflute             61 *         2' Flute (fr. Nachthorn) --
  2 2/3' Twelfth                 61       1 3/5' Tierce                61
      2' Super Octave            61              Mixture IV           244
         Mixture IV             244              Scharf IV (fr. Mixt)  --
      8' Trumpet                 61          16' Bassoon               73
      8' Clarinet                61 *         8' Trompette             73
         Tremulant                            8' Oboe (fr. Bassoon)    --
         Chimes                               8' Vox Humana (prep)     --
         Zimbelstern (5 handbells)            4' Clairon (fr. Trpt)    --
         * enclosed                              Tremulant

         SOLO ORGAN (III)                        PEDAL ORGAN
      8' Solo Diapason III (derived)         32' Bourdon (1-12 digital)
      8' Harmonic Flute (Gt)     --          32' Resultant             --
      8' Salicional (Sw)         --          16' Open Wood             56
      8' Voix Celeste (Sw)       --          16' Subbass               44
      8' Flute Celestes II (Gt)  --          16' Violone (Gt)          --
         Cornet V (Sw)           --          16' Gedeckt (Sw)          --
      8' State Trumpet (prep)    --           8' Octave
      8' Trumpet (Gt)            --           8' Subbass (fr. 16')     --
      8' Oboe (Sw)               --           8' Violone (Gt)          --
      8' Clarinet (Gt)           --           8' Gedeckt (Sw)          --
         Tremulant                            4' Super Octave (fr. OW) --
         Chimes (Gt)             --           4' Cantus Flute (Gt HF)  --
                                             32' Harmonics             --
         ANTIPHONAL ORGAN (floating)         16' Trombone (ext Gt)     12
         console preparation                 16' Bassoon (Sw)          --
                                              8' Trumpet (Gt)          --
                                              4' Clarion (Gt)          --
                                              4' Clarinet (Gt)         --


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2017-07-23]

Websites

Christ Episcopal Church, Eureka, California [Builder's website] - Stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)