Pipe Organ Database

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C. B. Fisk, Inc. (Opus 85, 1984)

Location:

Stanford University, Memorial Church
450 Serra Mall, Bldg. 500
Palo Alto, CA 94305 US
Memorial Church
Organ ID: 7322

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Status and Condition:

  • This instrument's location type is: Colleges and Universities
  • The organ is unaltered from its original state.
  • The organ's condition is unknown.
We received the most recent update for this instrument's status from Database Manager on April 16, 2019.

Technical Details:

  • Chests: Slider
  • 78 ranks. 4 manuals. 59 stops.
All:
  • Chest Type(s): Slider chests
  • Position: In a gallery-level case at the rear of the room.
We received the most recent update for this division from Database Manager on April 16, 2019.
Main:
  • Manuals: 4
  • Stops: 59
  • Position: Keydesk attached, manuals set into case.
  • Manual Compass: 54
  • Pedal Compass: 30
  • Key Action: Suspended tracker.
  • Stop Action: Mechanical connection between stop control and chest.
  • Console Style: Non-traditional style, as consoles by Holtkamp, Schlicker, et al.
  • Stop Controls: Sliding stop controls/levers.
  • Combination Action: No combination action.
  • Swell Control Type: No enclosed divisions.
  • Pedalboard Type: Flat straight pedalboard.
  • Has Hitchdown Couplers
We received the most recent update for this console from Database Manager on April 16, 2019.
Database Manager on May 07, 2017:

Brustpositiv has 52 keys

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Database Manager on February 08, 2010:

Updated through online information from Jim Black-Downes. -- This organ is not floor level. It is in the balcony at the rear.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Database Manager on February 07, 2010:

Updated through online information from Jim Black-Downes. -- This organ can switch the main three keyboards from well-tempered (notice, NOT equal-tempered) to one-fifth comma meantone. The Brustwerk is in meantone only and has split keys for g-sharp and a-flat and d-sharp and e-flat.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Database Manager on October 30, 2004:

Status Note: There 1988

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Database Manager on October 30, 2004:

Brustwerk tuned in Meantone. Rest has device that allows it to be played either in a well-temperament or one-fifth comma meantone. Pitch A-440.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Source not recorded: Open In New Tab From C.B. Fisk website
We received the most recent update for this stoplist from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.

Instrument Images:

Church Exterior: Photograph by Todd Hochstatter. Taken on 2019-03-27

Memorial Stone: Photograph by Todd Hochstatter. Taken on 2019-03-27

Balcony and Organ Case: Photograph by Dr. John Spencer Baskin. Taken on 2019-03-27

Organ case: Photograph by Fisk, submitted by John Roper. Taken approx. 1984

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