Better Pipe Organ Database

William Henry Davis (1860ca.)

Grace Cathedral, Episcopal
California & Taylor Sts.
San Francisco, CA

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
1 manuals
6 stops
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Pedal Type: No Pedalboard
Combination action: None

Notes

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

2004-10-30 - Acquired from St. Paul Epis., Benica, CA in 1962 in poor condition. Worked on by John Bergstrom c. 1885. Restored by E. M. Stout in 1974. Attr. to Erben for many years. OH 1988 attributes it to Wm. H. Davis. -Database Manager

2010-06-16 - Updated through on-line information from Randell Franklyn Busby. -Database Manager

2012-07-08 - Updated through online information from John Speller. -Database Manager

2013-04-13 - Updated through online information from Michael Lampen. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stop list from 1988 OHS Convention Handbook, p. 21 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Manual   54 notes

8' Open Diapason (TF)       37m
8' Stop Diapason Bass       17w
4' Principal (TF)           37m
4' Principal Bass           17m
4' Flute (TF)               37w&m  
2' Fifteenth (TF)           37m

The Fifteenth replaces an original Dulciana which was reported in 1888 as in storage.

 [Received from John Speller 2012-07-08.]

Websites

Voluntary - Piece by John Beckwith. Performed by Randall Jay McCarty. 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)

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