Better Pipe Organ Database

Balcom & Vaughan Pipe Organs Opus 842 (1979)

Faith Lutheran Church: Sanctuary; front
20080 Redwood Rd.
Castro Valley, CA

Images

2017-08-27 - Inside the Swell division (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2015-12-24 - Right side exposed pipework (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2020-05-29 - Exposed Great & Pedal (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2021-05-07 - Chancel and exposed pipes (Photograph by Hupalo & Repasky, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2018-05-17 - Sanctuary interior with exposed Great & Pedal principal choruses (Church Facebook page/Steve Repasky)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
2 manuals
26 stops
43 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
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: Computerized/Digital
Peterson
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2010-07-05 - Identified through on-line information from Steve Repasky. -Database Manager

2010-07-07 - Updated through on-line information from Steve Repasky. -- Individual note actions. Capture system: Originally by Bob Lucas replaced by a Peterson Unit. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Taken from console 1979

Castro Valley, California
Faith Lutheran Church 

Balcom & Vaughan Pipe Organs, Inc., Opus 842, 1979

2 manuals and pedals, 32 ranks
_____________________________________________________________

       GREAT
16'    Quintaton                 61
8'     Principal                 61
8'     Rohr Flöte                61
4'     Octave                    61
4'     Spill Flöte               61
2'     Super Octave              61
III    Mixture (1 1/3')         183
8'     Trumpet                   61
       Chimes                   (2_)

       Duplexed from Swell
8'     Gedeckt             (Sw)  --
8'     Viole de Gambe      (Sw)  --
8'     Flauto Dolce        (Sw)  --
8'     Flute Celeste       (Sw)  --
8'     Spitz Prinzipal     (Sw)  --

Great to Great 4'


       SWELL (Expressive)
8'     Gedeckt                   61
8'     Viole de Gambe            61
8'     Viole Celeste       (TC)  49
8'     Flauto Dolce              61
8'     Flute Celeste       (TC)  49
4'     Spitz Prinzipal           61
4'     Nachthorn                 61
2 2/3' Nasat                     61
2'     Gedeckt Flöte             61
1 3/5' Terz                (TC)  49
1 1/3' Larigot             (TC)  49
1'     Sif Flöte                 --  (from 2' Gedeckt)
III    Mixture (1')             183
8'     Hautbois                  61
4'     Rohr Schalmei             61
       Tremulant

Swell to Swell 16'
Swell Unison Off
Swell to Swell 4'


       PEDAL
16'    Sub Bass                  32
16'    Quintaton           (Gt)  --
16'    Gedeckt             (Sw)  12
8'     Octave                    32
8'     Quintaton           (Gt)  --
8'     Gedeckt             (Sw)  --
4'     Choral Bass               32
4'     Rohr Flöte          (Gt)  --
4'     Spill Flöte         (Gt)  --
III    Mixture (2')              96
16'    Trumpet             (Gt)  12
8'     Trumpet             (Gt)  --
4'     Hautbois            (Sw)  --
4'     Rohr Schalmei       (Sw)  --


COUPLERS

Swell to Pedal                  8,4
Great to Pedal                  8

Swell to Great               16,8,4


FINGER PISTONS

Undocumented


TOE STUDS

Undocumented


PEDAL MOVEMENTS

Swell Expression             (bal.)
Crescendo                    (bal.)

Websites

Pipe Organ - Description & stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)