Better Pipe Organ Database

James Treat & Co. (1894)

Grace Episcopal Church
California Street
San Francisco, CA

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Images

1894-01-01 - Unknown (from <i>The Organ</i>, March 1894/Database Manager)

2008-10-22 - Vintage photo of church interior and organ facades (Digital image by Jim Lewis/Database Manager)

2008-10-25 - Detail of vintage photo (Image created by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
3 manuals
47 stops
Key action Type: Mechanical With Pneumatic Assists
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2004-10-30 - In 1860 building on Knob Hill. Water motor. Destroyed in 1906 earthquake. -Database Manager

2008-07-09 - Updated through online information from jim lewis. -Database Manager

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

2010-09-29 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

From <i>The Organ</i> (March 1893) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

San Francisco, California
Grace Episcopal Church

James E. Treat & Co.   1893                 3 manuals, 47 stops, 52 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN                          SWELL ORGAN
     16' Open Diapason        61          16' Bourdon Treble }
      8' Open Diapason, 1st   61          16' Bourdon Bass   }     61
      8' Open Diapason, 2nd   61           8' Open Diapason        61
      8' Gemshorn             61           8' Flûte Harmonique     61
      8' Viola di Gamba       61           8' Salicional           61
      8' Doppel Flöte         61           8' Dolcissimo           61
      4' Octave               61           8' Stopped Diapason     61
      4' Flûte Harmonique     61           4' Octave               61
  2 2/3' Twelfth              61           4' Hohl Flöte           61
      2' Fifteenth            61           4' Gambette             61
         Mixture, 3 ranks    183           2' Flautino             61
      8' Trumpet              61              Mixture, 4 ranks    244
                                          16' Trumpet              61
         CHOIR ORGAN                       8' Cornopean            61
     16' Lieblich Gedeckt     61           8' Oboe and Bassoon     61
      8' Open Diapason        61           8' Vox Humana           61
      8' Viola Dolce          61           4' Clarion              61
      8' Dulciana             61
      8' Melodia              61              PEDAL ORGAN
      8' Quintadena           61          32' Grand Bourdon        30
      4' Violin               61          16' Double Open Diapason 30
      4' Flute d'Amour        61          16' Double Gamba         30
      2' Piccolo Harmonique   61          16' Double Dulciana      30
     16' Contra Fagotto       61          16' Bourdon              30
      8' Clarionet            61           8' Flute                30
                                           8' Violoncello          30
                                          16' Trombone             30

         MECHANICAL REGISTERS                 COMBINATION PISTONS
           (over keys)                        Great     1-2-3
         Great to Pneumatic                   Swell     1-2-3-4-5
         Swell to Great                       Choir     1-2-3
         Choir to Great                       Pedal     1-2-3
         Swell to Choir
         Great to Pedal                       COMBINATION PEDALS
         Swell to Pedal                       (Double-Acting and
         Choir to Pedal                        numbered from the left)
         Swell Tremolo                        Choir     1-2
         Choir Tremolo                        Swell     3-4-5-6
         Blowers' Signal (Contingent)         Great     7-8-9-10

                              MECHANICAL MOVEMENTS
         1. Great to Pedal (Reversible)       5. Crescendo & Diminuendo
         2. All Couplers                      6. Crescendo Indicator
         3. Swell Tremolo (Reversible)        7. Wind Indicator
         4. Balanced Swell Pedal

[Received from Steven E. Lawson  August 15, 2014]