Better Pipe Organ Database

Munetaka Yokota (1994)

First Lutheran
850 Cooper Ave.
Yuba City, CA

Images

Unknown - Organ Case (Photograph by Paul Dessau/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

2 manuals
16 stops
Key action Type: Mechanical (Suspended Tracker)
Stop action Type: Mechanical

Notes

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

2004-10-30 - Kellner-Bach (1/5 Pythagorean Comma) temperament, A-440. Wind System: One single-fold wedge bellows with electric blower (no wind stabilizer). Materials: Solid wood for all wooden parts; 75% tin for Principal 8' and Unda maris 8'; 28% tin for Gedackt 8'; 23% tin for all other metal pipes; Pine for Untersatz 16' and Posaune 16'. Prepared Stops: Trompete 8' for Manual I and Pedal (transmission); Quinte 1 1/3' for Manual II. The organ is housed in a red baroque style case. Borrows can be played from either manual, but not both simultaneously. -Database Manager

2007-11-11 - Updated through on-line information from Eric Mackensen. -Database Manager

2007-11-12 - Updated through on-line information from Eric Mackensen. -- The organ is unique in that it is the first parish organ to be completely built on-site in perhaps three centuries. The congregation built a workshop onsite (later converted to classrooms) Every element was created here including the pouring and manufacturing of pipes. -Database Manager

2019-08-13 - Updated by Marian Ruhl Metson, who has heard or played the organ. Munetaka Yokota added a Trompete 8\' to Manual I with an extension to the pedal and and a Quint 1 1/3 to Manual II in 2004. These stops were dedicated in a recital played by Paul Tegels of PLU, Tacoma WA on September 26, 2004 -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

First Lutheran Church
Yuba City, CA

Organ Designer/Builder: Munetaka Yokota

Manual I

Principal       8'
Spillpfeife     8'
Octava          4'
Rohrfloete      4'
Nasat       2 2/3'
Octava          2'
Tertia      1 3/5'
Mixtur        III
Unda maris      8'

Manual II

Gedackt         8'
Rohrfloete      4' *
Nasat       2 2/3' *
Octava          2' *
Tertia      1 3/5' *

Pedal

Untersatz      16'
Spillpfeife     8' (from I)
Posaune        16'


Tremulent
Cymbelstern
Couplers II/I, I/P, II/P

* These stops are from Man. I and can be played on either I or II,
  but not both simultaneously.

Manual Compass:         C-f3
Pedal Compass:          C-f1
Pitch:                  a-440
Temperament:            Kellner-Bach (1/5 Pythagorean Comma)
Wind Pressure:          55 mm (for the entire organ)
Wind System:            One single-fold wedge bellows with electric blower
                                (no wind stabilizer)
Key Action:             Suspended Tracker Action
Stop Action:            Mechanical
Materials:              Solid wood for all wooden parts
                        75% tin for Principal 8' and Unda maris 8'
                        28% tin for Gedackt 8'
                        23% tin for all other metal pipes
                        Pine for Untersatz 16' and Posaune 16'
Prepared Stops:         Trompete 8' for Manual I and Pedal (transmission)
                        Quinte 1 1/3' for Manual II

According to my aunt, the organ is housed in a red baroque style case and
fills the church very well with sound.

Websites

Our Pipe Organ [Church web site] - Photograph, description, link to stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)