Pipe Organ Database

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Henry Erben (1858)

Location:

Calvary Presbyterian Church
San Francisco, CA US
Organ ID: 37459

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Status and Condition:

  • This instrument's location type is: Presbyterian Churches
  • The organ has been relocated.
  • The organ's condition is unknown.
We received the most recent update for this instrument's status from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.

Technical Details:

  • Chests: Slider
  • 42 ranks. 3 manuals. 36 stops.
All:
  • Chest Type(s): Slider chests
We received the most recent update for this division from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Main:
  • Manuals: 3
  • Stops: 36
  • Key Action: Mechanical connection from key to chest (tracker, sticker or mix).
  • Stop Action: Mechanical connection between stop control and chest.
We received the most recent update for this console from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Database Manager on August 01, 2010:

Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ was given to St. Mary's College in Moraga, California ca. 1928 when Calvary Presbyterian got a new Aeolian organ. The Erben case still exists there, and some of the pipework survives in the more recent Austin pipe organ installed within the Erben casework.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Database Manager on December 07, 2008:

Identified by James Lewis:-- The organ was relocated to a new church building first in 1869 and again in 1901.

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

Instrument Images:

Nave and Organ Case: Photograph from the collection of Jim Lewis. Taken on 1902-03-21

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