Austin Organ Co.
Opus 500, 1915
Civic Auditorium
San Francisco, CA, US
117 Ranks
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CONSOLES
Builder: Austin Organ Co.
Position: Movable Console
Design: Traditional With Roll Top
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Features:
4 Manuals (61 Notes)32 Note Pedal6 DivisionsElectrical Key ActionElectrical Stop Action✓ Crescendo✓ Combination Thumb Piston(s)✓ Combination Toe Piston(s)✓ Sforzando Thumb Piston(s)✓ Sforzando Toe Piston(s)Stop Layout: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination Action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Control System: Unknown or N/A
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DETAILS
This instrument is: Not Extant and Not Playable in this location
The City of San Francisco has listed the instrument with Organ Clearing House, June 2023.
https://www.organclearinghouse.com/organs-for-sale#/3141-austin-san-francisco
Database Manager on May 13th, 2013:
Updated through online information from Vic Ferrer.
Database Manager on July 31st, 2008:
Updated through on-line information from Timothy Tikker. -- The organ is in storage in Brooks Hall, an underground facility in front of Civic Auditorium. The organ has been completely restored, except for those parts destroyed in the 1989 earthquake, which have not yet been replaced. The organ's final home is not yet determined. The on-line video gives a history of the organ, and calls attention to a campaign to return the organ to its original location in Civic Auditorium (now Bill Graham Auditorium). The organ's present console dates from c. 1964 -- built by Austin.
Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
Installed by Schoenstein Organ Co. (Austin Rep.) in Oct 1914. Cleaned with new console in 1962. Damaged in 1989 earthquake. Shipped to Austin in Hartford, CT for restoration. Work now stopped, and future uncertain (1995).
- Pageant Piece by Leo Sowerby. Performed by John Balka. Produced by The Organ Historical Society in 1988 with the title: Historic Organs of San Francisco: Twenty Historic Pipe Organs
Webpage Links: The San Francisco Exposition Organ , Friends of the Exposition Organ
Related Instrument Entries: Austin Organ Co.
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