Better Pipe Organ Database

Skinner Organ Co. Opus 811 (1929)

St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church
756 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA

Images

2017-04-21 - Organ Case (Photograph by Andrew McKeon/Database Manager)

2017-04-21 - Interior (Photograph by Andrew McKeon/Database Manager)

2017-04-21 - Exterior and Yerba Buena Gardens (Photograph by Andrew McKeon/Database Manager)

Unknown - Balcony, Organ Case, and Console (Photograph (2008) by Steve Repasky/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
27 stops
35 registers
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1997 -Database Manager

2006-05-15 - Updated through information adapted from E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: Extant; unaltered. -Database Manager

2008-11-09 - Updated through online information from Bruce Cornely. -Database Manager

2009-02-17 - Updated through online and e-mail information from Steve Repasky. The organ and its case sit in the balcony over the main entrance. The manual divisions are placed within the side towers and the Pedal organ in the center. The case was designed by the notable neo-Gothic architect, Arnold Constable when the church was redesigned after the devastating 1906 earthquake. The case is ornately Gothic and compliments the Gothic proportions of the room. It is one of the few encased Skinner organs and projects well into the church. -Database Manager

Stoplist

From Allen Kinzey via The Aeolian-Skinner Archives Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

San Francisco, California
St. Patrick's Catholic Church

Skinner Organ Company   Opus 811   1929       3 manuals, 27 stops, 31 ranks
___________________________________________________________________________
 
        GREAT ORGAN                             CHOIR ORGAN
    16' Bourdon              5 PED           8' Concert Flute       73
     8' Diapason            61               8' Dulciana            73
     8' Harmonic Flute      61               4' Flute               73
     8' Chimney Flute       SW           2 2/3' Nazard              61
     8' Echo Gamba          SW             III  Carillon           183
     4' Octave              61               8' Clarinet            73
    II  Grave Mixture      122                  Tremolo
     8' Trumpet             SW
                                                PEDAL ORGAN
        SWELL ORGAN                         16' Contrebasse         32
     8' Diapason            73              16' Bourdon             32
     8' Chimney Flute       73               8' Octave              12
     8' Salicional          73               8' Gedeckt             12
     8' Voix Celeste        73               4' Flute               12
     8' Echo Gamba          73              16' Trombone            32
     4' Octave              73              16' English Horn        SW
     4' Flute Triangulaire  73               8' Tromba              12
     2' Fifteenth           61
   III  Mixture            183
    16' English Horn        73
     8' Trumpet             73
     8' Oboe                73
     8' Vox Humana          73
        Tremolo


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2014-08-25]

Websites

Opus 811: St. Patrick's Catholic Church - (Aeolian-Skinner Archives website) Stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)