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Los Angeles Art Organ Co. Opus 45 (1904)

Temple Sherith Israel
2266 California Street
San Francisco, CA

Images

2023-04-05 - Organ façade (Photograph by Christopher Ketcham/Christopher Ketcham)

2022-05-11 - Pedal drawknobs (Photograph by Don Daley/Don Daley)

2022-05-11 - Builder's nameplate (Photograph by Don Daley/Don Daley)

2022-05-11 - Console (Photograph by Don Daley/Don Daley)

April, 1970 - Interior and organ facade (Photograph by Jim Lewis/Jim Lewis)

2024-02-27 - Blower (Don Daley/Don Daley)

Consoles

Main

3 manuals
50 stops
Key action Type: Electrical

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1988. -Database Manager

2014-08-26 - Lewis, James. <i>The Los Angeles Art Organ Company: its short and troubled life</i>. Richmond: OHS Press, 2012. -Database Manager

2024-12-20 - From *The Tracker* Vol. 53, No. 3: the Great Mixture is 12-15-17-22, the Swell Cornet is 12-15-17-19-22 with string scale pipes. The pedal Dulciana is wooden. -Christian Tedesco

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist from 'San Francisco Call' (Sept. 12, 1905):6 Date not recorded

San Francisco, California
Temple Sherith Israel

Los Angeles Art Organ Company   Opus 45   1904
4 manuals, 50 stops, 57 ranks
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        GREAT ORGAN                            CHOIR ORGAN
    16' Double Open Diapason               16' Contra Gamba
     8' First Open Diapason                 8' Geigen Principal
     8' Second Open Diapason                8' Dulciana
     8' Viola di Gamba                      8' Quintadena
     8' Viol d'Amour                        8' Melodia
     8' Doppel Flute                        8' Lieblich Gedeckt
     4' Octave                              4' Fugara
     4' Harmonic Flute                      4' Flute d'Amour
     2' Fifteenth                           2' Piccolo
     IV Mixture                             8' Clarionette
     8' Trumpet                                Tremolo (affects Echo)
     4' Tuba Clarion                           Swell to Choir
        Swell to Great 16, 8, 4
        Choir to Great 16, 8, 4                ECHO ORGAN
                                            8' Æoline
        SWELL ORGAN                         8' Wald Flute
    16' Bourdon                             8' Vox Humana
     8' Open Diapason
     8' Violin Diapason                        PEDAL ORGAN
     8' Salicional                         16' Open Diapason
     8' Æoline                             16' Bourdon
     8' Unda Maris                         16' Gamba
     8' Stopped Diapason                   16' Dulciana
     8' Spitz Flute                         8' Octave
     4' Geigen Octave                       8' Violoncello
     4' Flauto Traverso                     8' Flute
     2' Harmonic Piccolo                   16' Trombone
     V  Cornet                                 Pedal Octaves
    16' Contra Fagotto                         Great to Pedal
     8' Cornopean                              Swell to Pedal
     8' Oboe & Bassoon                         Choir to Pedal
     8' Vox Humana
     4' Clarion
        Tremolo
        Swell to Swell 4


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2014-08-26]

Websites

Wedding March No. 1 - Piece by Ernest Bloch. Performed by Rodney Gehrke. Produced by The Organ Historical Society in 1988 with the title: Historic Organs of San Francisco: Twenty Historic Pipe Organs (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)