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Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 2857 (1959)

Menlo Park Presbyterian Church: Sanctuary
950 Santa Cruz Avenue
Menlo Park, CA

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
3 manuals
30 stops
25 registers
4 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
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons

Notes

2010-01-13 - Identified by Rae Bolton from information furnished by Casavant Frères, courtesy of Simon Couture. Moved to Santa Clara University. -Database Manager

2010-04-14 - Updated through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -- The existing console was to be reused. -Database Manager

2010-04-14 - Updated through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -- When the choir was moved to the chancel in 1976, the organ was relocated, due to lack of room in chancel, to Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA. -Database Manager

2011-02-14 - Updated through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -- Existing console retained; when the choir was moved to the front where there was no room for the Casavant, it was replaced by a digital organ and moved to the University of Santa Clara. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist coped from the factory specifications Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

     Menlo Park, California
     First Presbyterian Church

     Casavant   Op. 2857   1965   3/29

     Courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives
     St. Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada
     _________________________________________________

     GREAT (exposed)              CHOIR
 16' Quintaten      68         8' Cor de Nuit       68
  8' Principal      68         8' Erzähler          68
  8' Spitzfloete    68         8' Erzähler Celeste  61 GG
  4' Octave         68         4' Koppelfloete      68
  4' Rohrfloete     68     2 2/3' Nasat             61
  2' Superoctave    61         2' Blockflöte        61
III  Mixture       183     1 3/5' Tierce            61
     Super                        Tremulant
                                  Sub
     SWELL                        Unison Off
  8' Viola Pomposa  68            Super
  8' Viola Celeste  68
  8' Holzgedeckt    68            PEDAL (partly exposed) 
  4' Nachthorn      68        32' Soubasse          elec
  2' Spitzoctave    61        16' Violone           32
III  Plein Jeu     183        16' Cor de Nuit       12 CH
  8' Trompette      68        16' Quintaten         GT
  4' Krummhorn      68         8' Spitzprincipal    32
     Tremulant                 8' Cor de Nuit       CH
     Sub                       8' Quintaten         GT
     Unison Off                4' Choralbass        32 
     Super                    16' Trompette         12 SW
                                                                
[Received on line from Jeff Scofield April 14, 2010.]

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