Better Pipe Organ Database

Unknown Builder Opus 161 (1934)

United Methodist Church
Piru, CA

Note: Not playable. (in this location)

Images

2018-07-26 - Facade (Photograph by Christoph Rimmele/Database Manager)

2018-07-25 - Interior of Great and Swell through facade (Photograph by Christoph Rimmele/Database Manager)

2018-07-25 - View of Great pipework through facade and from above (Photograph by Christoph Rimmele/Database Manager)

2018-07-25 - View of Great pipework with Swell rollerboard at rear (Photograph by Christoph Rimmele/Database Manager)

1985-04-20 - Sanctuary Interior, Chancel, and Organ Case (Photograph by Jim Lewis/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
2 manuals
16 stops
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1996. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Built for Eastside Presbyterian, Stockton, CA (2-22st on Johnson list). Compass 56/27. Sold here in 1934 for $1000. Historic Organs Recital 8 Nov 1988. Restored 1976 by Michael McNeil & David Sedlak who added 2/3' Mixture II. Was15 stops/ranks, now 16 stops/17 ranks. -Database Manager

2016-12-06 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

2018-07-28 - Updated by Kevin Gilchrist<br>\r\nTrumpet and Oboe ranks missing. II Mixture of 1976 also missing. No apparent toe/rackboard for it. Pipes were stored in trays for many years, now returned to toeboards (July 2018) and facade pipes in place. Not playable. Venue is sometimes used for filming. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from console Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Piru, California
United Methodist Church

William Johnson Opus #161  1864

Great:
8  Open Diapason
8  Keraulophon
8  Clarabella
4  Principal
4  Chimney Flute
2 2/3  Twelfth
2  Fifteenth
8  Trumpet

Swell:
16 Bourdon 
8  Open Diapason
8  Stopped Diapason
8  Viola d'Amour
4  Principal
8  Oboe

Pedal:
16 Double Open Diapason

Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal
Swell to Great
Swell Tremolo

[Received online from Jim lewis June 30, 2010.]

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#59609†* - Wm. A. Johnson Opus 161 (1864)