Better Pipe Organ Database

Newton Pipe Organ Services (2019New ranks)

St. Joseph's Catholic Church: Choir Loft
582 Hope Street
Mountain View, CA

Images

2021-07-12 - Great and Choir modified draw knobs (Photograph by Denis D'Aoust/Brad Engelland)

2015-06-15 - Console (Photograph by Denis D'Aoust/Database Manager)

2015-06-15 - Pedal and Swell Drawknobs (Photograph by Denis D'Aoust/Database Manager)

2015-06-15 - Great and Choir Drawknobs (Photograph by Denis D'Aoust/Database Manager)

2015-06-15 - Great Pipe Display (Photograph by Denis D'Aoust/Database Manager)

2015-06-15 - Console (Photograph by Denis D'Aoust/Database Manager)

2015-06-15 - Rear Choir Loft, Pipe Display, and Chamber Grillework (Photograph by Denis D'Aoust/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Movable Console
3 manuals
38 stops
38 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)
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

Notes

2009-01-09 - Identified through on-line information from Monty Bennett:-- Rebuild of existing Murray M. Harris organ. -Database Manager

2015-07-18 - Updated through online information from Denis D'Aoust. -Database Manager

2019-09-23 - Updated by Denis Daoust, who has heard or played the organ. <br> <br> -Database Manager

2021-07-14 - An 8' Clarinet rank / stop was added in 2019, increasing the pipe count to 1794 -Denis D'Aoust

Stoplist

Stoplist from console photos taken June 15, 2015 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Mountain View, California
St. Joseph's Catholic Church

Newton Pipe Organ Services, 1981. 
Originally built by Murray M. Harris Organ Co., 1906

GREAT				CHOIR
				
 8	Principal		 8	Gedeckt
 4	Octave			 8	Dulciana
 2	Fifteenth		 4 	Prestant
 	Mixture IV		 4	Nachthorn
 8	Trompette		 2	Blockflute
	Tower Chimes			Sesquialtera II
				 	  Tremolo
				 8	Trompette d'Bagileo
	four blanks
					three blanks


SWELL				PEDAL
 
  8	Rohr Flute		 32	Untersatz
  8	Viola Pomposa		 16	Bourdon
  8	Viola Celeste		 16	Leiblich Gedeckt
  4	Spitz Principal		  8	Octave
  4	Traverse Flute		  8	Gedeckt
  2	Flautino		  4	Choral Bass
 	Plein Jeu III			Mixture III
  8	Trompette
  8	Oboe			  8	Trompette d'Bagileo

	three blanks			five blanks

 [Received from Stephen Hall 2015-07-16.]

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#38279 - Murray M. Harris (Organ Co.) (1906)