2016-05-20 - Organ Case (Photograph by Lee Wahlert/Database Manager)
2016-05-20 - Drawknobs (Photograph by Lee Wahlert/Database Manager)
2016-05-20 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by Lee Wahlert/Database Manager)
2016-06-13 - An original installation. Identified by James R. Stettner, based on information learned from a conversation with Rev. Dr. Jonthan Mitchell, Pastor of the church. <br>The organ is free-standing and encased in an English-style 18th/early 19th-century case. Facade is 3-sectional with 25 pipes arranged: 4-17-4. No pedals. Expression and crescendo shoes. Drawknobs over manual. Might be tubular-pneumatic. -Database Manager
2016-06-24 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager
Stoplist copied from photos of the console taken May 20, 2016, and from a .pdf copy of the original contract Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
San Diego, California
Church of the New Jerusalem
HALL ORGAN CO., Opus 594, 1930 - “Original Specifications”
MANUAL (Expressive) COUPLERS (drawknob)
[16] Pedal Bourdon 12 Sub Octave Coupler [16]
[8] Open Diapason 61 Manual to Manual [super] [4]
[8] Viola 61
[8] Gedeckt 61
[4] Gemshorn 61 TOE SPOON
Tremolo Bass Cancel (rev)
PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Expression (bal.)
Crescendo (bal.)
ACTION: E-P unit VOICES: 4 STOPS: 5 RANKS: 4 PIPES: 256
NOTES
The organ is housed in a mahogany English-style case with a 3-sectional façade
containing 25 gold painted dummy pipes arranged: 4-17-4. It is installed at the
front of the church on the right side with the organ facing across the chancel.
Stops are done as English-style ivory drawknobs over the keydesk. The manual is
ivory with ebony sharps.
The action is electro-pneumatic throughout, and the 'Pedal Bourdon' is a mechanism
patented June 19, 1930.
Sources: Photos by Lee Wahlert of San Diego; .pdf copy of the original contract.
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