Better Pipe Organ Database

Werner Bosch Opus 581 (1971)

St. Paulus Lutheran Church
950 Gough & Eddy
San Francisco, CA

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

Images

1980's - Partial view of case front (Photograph by Michael A. Way, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

1980's - Console and case in profile (Photograph by Michael A. Way, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

1970's - Organ case and console in rear gallery (Photograph from an archival source: Church brochure about the organ in the collection of Michael A. Way, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

1964-06-19 - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: San Francisco Public Library Photo Archive, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Non-Traditional Style, As Consoles by Holtkamp, Schlicker, et al
Console position: Detached Keydesk (Mechanical Action)
3 manuals
35 stops
35 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets on Angled Jambs
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Freie Kombinationen
Has combination thumb pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Destroyed by fire 5 November 1995. MS until 1970's. by 1990's ELCA Synod. -Database Manager

2012-05-01 - Updated through online information from Timothy Tikker. -- The Schwellwerk and Positivwerk both spoke through glass swell shades in the lower center of the case (i.e. Brustwerk position). However, only the Schwellwerk's shades were operable by the console's swell-pedal; the Positivwerk's shades could only be operated by hand. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from console c. 1980 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

San Francisco, California
Saint Paulus Lutheran Church

Werner Bosch, Opus 581, 1971


HAUPTWERK (Manual II)     # of pipes:

    16' Quintade           56
     8' Prästant           56 (facade)
     8' Rohrgedackt        56 (low 5 mahogany)
     4' Octave             56
     4' Spitzflöte         56
 2-2/3' Nasat              56
     2' Flachflöte         56
 1-3/5' Terz               56
 1-1/3' Mixtur 4-6fach    300
     8' Trompete           56
        Koppel S.W. - H.W.
        Koppel P.W. - H.W.


SCHWELLWERK (Manual III, expressive)

     8' Holzgedackt        56 (oak; top 14 metal)
     8' Spitzgambe         56
     8' Gambe-Celeste      44 (from cº)
     4' Principal          56
     4' Rohrflöte          56
     2' Nachthorn          56
     1' Sifflöte           56
 1-1/3' Scharf 4fach      224
    16' Helle-Trompete     56 (low 33 L/2)
     8' Schalmei-Oboe      56 (L/1)
        Tremolo


POSITIVWERK (Manual I; glass louvers operable by hand)
  
     8' Copula             56
     4' Gemshorn           56
     2' Principal          56
 1-1/3' Nasat              56
        Terzzimbel 3fach  168 (Terz enters composition at c')
     8' Krummhorn          56 (L/2)
        Tremolo


PEDALWERK

    16' Prinzipal          32 (lowest notes mahogany; some copper pipes in facade)
    16' Subbaß             32 (stopped mahogany)
10-2/3' Großquinte         32 (stopped mahogany)
     8' Octave             32
     8' Pommer             32
     4' Choralbaß 2fach    64
 2-2/3' Mixtur 4fach      128
    16' Fagott             32 (mahogany, L/1)
     4' Feldtrompete       32
        Koppel S.W. - Ped.
        Koppel H.W. - Ped.
        Koppel P.W. - Ped.


6 Zungeneinzelabsteller (= individual reed cancels, operable by toggles similar
to the Freikombination toggles, functioning through Handregistrierung, any Freikombination or Organo Pleno)


Thumb pistons:

4 freie Kombinationen
Organo Pleno (= Tutti)
Auslöser (- Handregistrierung)


Toe reversible:

Zimbelstern


Balanced pedal for Schwellwerk expression


Voltmeter


Some mixture compositions:


HW Mixtur IV-VI:

C             19 22 26 29
cº      12 15 19 22 26
c'  1 8 12 15 19 22  
(any breaks beyond c' not recorded)


PEDW Choralbaß II:

4' 1-1/3' throughout


PEDW Mixtur IV:

2-2/3' Quintade, 2' 1-1/7', 4/5'

 [Received from Timothy Tikker 2012-05-01.]