1915-03-21 - Interior, Pipe Facade, and Console (Photograph from the collection of Jim Lewis/Database Manager)
2008-09-20 - Identified through information from Bud Clark -- Refurbished ca. 2000 by Lyle Blackinton of El Cajon, CA. -Database Manager
Typed stoplist from Bud Clark Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
First Church of Christ, Scientist
San Diego, CA
STOPLIST
1912 Murray Harris Pipe Organ
GREAT
16 Diapason (Violone - metal)
8 First Open Diapason
8 2nd Open Diapason
8 Dopple Flute
8 Viol d'Amour
8 Gamba
4 Octave
8 Trumpet
8 Chimes
16 Great to Great
Unison Off
4 Great to Great
SWELL
16 Bourdon
8 Violin Diapason
8 Stopped Diapason
8 Salicional
8 Vox Celeste
8 Aeoline
4 Harmonic Flute
2 Harmonic Flute
8 Oboe
8 Vox Humana
Concert Harp
Tremulant
16 Swell to Swell
Unison Off
4 Swell to Swell
CHOIR
8 Geigen
8 Melodia
8 Concert Flute - never installed
8 Dulciana
4 Flute d'amour
8 Trumpet (gt)
8 Orchestral Oboe
8 Clarinet
Chimes
16 Choir to Choir
8 Choir Unison Off
4 Choir to Choir
PEDAL
32 Resultant (Bourdon 16 + Violone 10 2/3, notes 1-12)
16 Open Diapason -WOOD! (grin)
16 Violone (gt).
16 Bourdon
16 Lieblich Gedeckt (sw., I think)
8 Flute
8 'Cello (ext. Violone?)
8 Trumpet (gt) - proposed
COUPLERS
8 Great to Pedal
8 Swell to Pedal
(4 Swell to Pedal - proposed)
8 Choir to Pedal
16 Swell to Great
8 Swell to Great
4 Swell to Great
16 Choir to Great
8 Choir to Great
4 Choir to Great
8 Choir to Swell - removed
16 Swell to Choir
8 Swell to Choir
4 Swell to Choir
I'd be VERY surprised if the Swell to Choir couplers hadn't been simply left
off the list. I'll ask Paul next time I talk to him.
New console, 1950s? Sort of Schlicker-ish rocker tabs, rebuilt by Lyle
Blackinton, 1990s. In a pit in front of the Reader's Desk (typical old CS
church layout)
The room is excellent ... the building is Irvin Gill ... the organ chamber
has unimpeded egress into the auditorium, and a handsome decorated facade
that was covered over in the "modernization" in the 1950s, and uncovered
again in the "restoration" of the 1990s. The auditorium features a Tiffany
stained glass dome, which was covered over at the onset of WWII and never
uncovered, until now (the church stands on a hill above San Diego Bay and
the various military installations).
The organ was featured as part of an AGO "organ crawl" recently. Younger
organists didn't have a CLUE what to do with it; older organists just smiled
adjusted their glasses, and opened their copies of Annus Ecclesiasticus,
etc. (grin), and proceeded to play up a STORM (chuckle).
Cheers,
Bud Clark
San Diego CA USA
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