2013-03-27 - Johnson Organ (Photograph by Paul Dessau/Database Manager)
2013-03-27 - Johnson Console (Photograph by Paul Dessau/Database Manager)
2004-10-30 - Built for First Lutheran, Carlisle, PA. Moved here in 1913. Altered. -Database Manager
2008-05-21 - Updated through online information from Richard Ditewig. -Database Manager
2008-05-21 - Updated through online information from Richard Ditewig. -Database Manager
2008-05-22 - Updated through online information from Richard Ditewig. -Database Manager
2009-09-17 - Updated through online information from Lee T. Lovallo. -- Stoplist altered from original, pedalboard and bench not original, cone tuning replaced with tuning sleeves, plywood in Swell chest rebuild, pedal compass expanded, most of original case gone, feeder bellows gone, incorporates two ranks from Johnson Op. 137, first installed in Carlisle, PA, then Williamstown, MA, finally installed in Sacramento, CA 1915 -- CC - a3 -Database Manager
2013-04-03 - Updated through online information from Paul Dessau. -Database Manager
2013-06-13 - Updated through online information from Paul Dessau. -Database Manager
Stoplist taken from history of the organ. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Sacramento California Saint Paul's Episcopal Church Johnson and Sons Opus 503 1877 The organ is a tracker action, 2 manuals 58 notes and pedal 30 notes, drawknob keydesk. It has no combination action and one bellows. Stop list 1877 Great 8’ Open Diapason 8’ Melodia 8’ Dulciana 4’ Principal 4’ Waldflute 2’ Fifteenth II Mixture 8’ Trumpet Swell 16’ Bourdon 8’ Open Diapason 8’ Stopped Diapason 8’ Keraulophon 4’ Violin 4’ Harmonic Flute 2’ Flautino II Cornet Dolce 8’ Oboe (TC) 8’ Bassoon (#1-12) Pedal 16’ Double Open Stop list 1915 Great 8’ Open Diapason 8’ Dulciana 4’ Principal 4’ Waldflute 2’ Fifteenth II Mixture Swell 8’ Open Diapason 8’ Stopped Diapason 8’ Keraulophon 8’ Aeoline 4’ Violin 4’ Harmonic Flute 8’ Hautboy (TC) (*1) 8’ Bassoon (#1-12) Pedal 16’ Double Open 16’ Bourdon (*2) Stop list 1963 Great 8’ Open Diapason 8’ Stopped Diapason 8’ Dulciana 4’ Principal 4’ Harmonic Flute 2-2/3 Quinte 2’ Fifteenth II Mixture (*3) 8’ Trumpet (*4) Swell 8’ Open Diapason 8’ Gedeckt 8’ Keraulophon 8’ Voix Celeste 4’ Chimney Flute (TF) 2’ Waldflute 1-1/3 Larigot 8’ Trompette Pedal 16’ Double Open 16’ Bourdon Stop list 1996 Great 8’ Open Diapason 8’ Melodia 8’ Dulciana 4’ Principal 4’ Flute d’Amour 2’ Fifteenth III Mixture 8’ Trumpet Swell 8’ Open Diapason 8’ Stopped Diapason 8’ Keraulophon (*6) 4’ Voix Celeste (new) 4’ Violin 4’ Harmonic Flute 2-2/3 Nazard (from Cornet) 2’ Flautino (new) II Cornet Dolce (new) 8’ Oboe & Bassoon (*5) Pedal 16’ Double Open 16’ Bourdon 8’ Violoncello *1 = name change only from “Oboe” *2 = Divided into Treble and Bass on two drawknobs *3 = In 1963 notes 1-12 of Mixture II were discarded and the balance repitched. A Johnson design was used in supplying the present mixture in 1996. the composition of the mixture has changed as follows: 1877-1915: 1-1/3, 1(1-12); 2-2/3, 2(13-58) 1963: 1-1/3, 1 (1-46); empty (47-58) 1996: 2, 1-1/3, 1 (1-24); 2-2/3, 2, 1-1/3 (25-42); 4, 2-2/3, 2 (43-58) *4 = The new Great Trumpet was built following Johnson scales *5 = The Oboe/Bassoon was originally on two drawknobs. In 1963, a new small scale Trompette replaced the Obe, which was stored and forgotten until discovered by Mr. Rik Rasmussen in 1996. *6 = The Keraulophon borrows its lowest twelve notes from the Stopped Diapason. [Received from Rev. Rik Rasmussen 2015-03-25.]
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