1915-03-21 - Auditorium Interior, Pipe Facades, and Console (Photograph from the collection of Jim Lewis/Database Manager)
2012-11-22 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by Jim Lewis, based on personal knowledge of the organ. -- -Database Manager
2014-07-14 - Updated through online information from Steven P. Tibbetts. -Database Manager
2018-04-08 - "The dedication of the new $7500 pipe organ in the new high school at Owensmouth will take place tomorrow with a recital by William Edson Strobridge, late of Christ Church.<br> Â Â Â "Mark Keppel, county superintendent of schools, under whose guidance the original plans for the organ were made, will make the dedicatory address. Judge York, member of the school board, will receive the organ in the name of the city.<br> Â Â Â "The organ is the latest in design and is placed in an auditorium which seats 800 people.<br> Â Â Â "It is the intention of the community to make this auditorium the center of social and civic activities.<br> Â Â Â "Sunday afternoon concerts will be given in the auditorium, of which the one tomorrow is the first. (<i>Los Angeles Herald</i>, 24 June 1916) -Database Manager
2018-04-08 - The organ was rebuilt in the 1970s, supposedly by one of the teachers of the high school. All of the organ's pipework was retained, as well as some of the Pedal, offset chests, shutters and shutter motors, and blower. The remaining parts of the mechanism were replaced to include the remaining windchests with new pitman and electro-pneumatic windchests, and new reservoirs. A used console was installed. -Database Manager
2018-04-08 - The organ was severely damaged in the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Williamson-Warne & Associates were engaged to rebuild the instrument. -Database Manager
Typed Specification Source: from <i>The Tracker</i>, vol. 48, no. 4 (Fall 2004) Date not recorded
Canoga Park, California
Owensmouth High School (now Canoga Park High School)
California Organ Co. 1916 2 manuals, 17 stops, 17 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN SWELL ORGAN
16' Double Open Diapason 85 16' Lieblich Gedackt 61
8' First Open Diapason 61 8' Open Diapason 61
8' Second Op. Diap. (fr. 16') -- 8' Stopped Diapason 61
8' Melodia 61 8' Salicional 61
8' Dulciana 61 8' Aeoline 61
4' Octave (fr. 16') -- 8' Voix Celeste (TC) 49
Chimes 4' Harmonic Flute 61
2' Piccolo 61
PEDAL ORGAN 8' Cornopean 61
32' Resultant Bass * -- 8' Oboe 61
16' Open Diapason (wood) 44 8' Vox Humana 61
16' Bourdon 32 Tremolo
16' Lieblich Gedackt (Sw) --
8' Octave (fr. 16' OD) --
8' Flute (Sw) --
* from Great 16' Dbl. Open + Pedal Bourdon
COUPLERS
Pedal Octaves
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal
Swell to Great 16'
Swell to Great 8'
Swell to Great 4'
Swell to Swell 4'
Great to Great 4'
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2018-04-08]
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