Specification

Austin-500 1915
Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, CA

GREAT ORGAN
(CC TO C4, 61 NOTES)

16 Double Open Diapason
16 Bourdon
8 Open Diapason (1 large)
8 Open Diapason (2 medium)
8 Open Diapason (3 small)
8 Viole Gamba [sic]
8 Dulciana
8 Gemshorn
8 Stopped Diapason
8 Philomela
8 Harmonic Flute
4 Octave
4 Gambette
4 Flute Harmonique
2 2/3 Twelfth
2 Fifteenth
Mixture 4 & 5 rks.
16 Double Trumpet
8 Posaune 4. 8 Open Diapason (2 medium)
8 French Trumpet
4 Clarion
Sesqueltra [sic] 3 rks.
Cathedral Chimes

Swell to Great
Swell to Great Sub
Swell to Great Octave
Choir to Great
Choir to Great Sub
Choir to Great Octave
Solo & Echo to Great
Solo & Echo to Great Octave

SWELL ORGAN

16 Bourdon
16 Double Dulciana
8 Open Diapason (large)
8 Open Diapason (small)
8 Viole d’Orchestre
8 Salicional
8 Aeoline
8 Voix Celeste
8 Clarabella
8 Spitzfloete [sic]
8 Lieblich Gedeckt
4 Principal
4 Violina
4 Flute Harmonique
4 Wald Floete [sic]
2 Piccolo Harmonique
Mixture 4 & 5 rks.
16 Contra Posaune
16 Contra Fagotto
8 Cornopean
8 Oboe
8 Harmonic Trumpet
4 Clarion
8 Vox Humana
8 Unda Maris

Tremulant
Swell Sub
Swell Unison off
Swell Octave
Solo & Echo to Swell
Eight adjustable composition pistons to control Swell stops

CHOIR ORGAN

16 Contra Gamba
8 Open Diapason
8 Gamba
8 Concert Flute
Hohl Flute [sic]
8 Flauto Dolce
8 Quintadena
8 Dulciana
8 Flute Celeste
4 Octave
4 Flute Harmonique
4 Suabe Flute
2 Harmonic Piccolo
Dolce Cornet (3 rks.)
8 Harmonic Trumpet
8 Clarionet
8 Cor Anglais
Celesta

Tremulant
Choir Sub
Choir Unison off
Choir Octave
Swell to Choir
Swell to Choir Sub
Swell to Choir Octave
Solo & Echo to Choir
Solo & Echo to Choir Sub
Solo & Echo to Choir Octave
Eight adjustable composition pistons to control Choir stops
Echo organ also playable on choir manual by duplex action

PEDAL ORGAN

64 Gravissima, resultant
32 Double Open Diapason
32 Contra Violone
16 Open Diapason
16 Open Diapason
16 Open Diapason
16 Violone
16 Dulciana
16 Bourdon
16 Lieblich Bourdon
10 2/3 Gross Quint
8 Flauto Dolce
8 Gross Flute
8 Octave Dulciana
8 Violoncello
4 Octave Flute
32 Contra Bombarde
16 Trombone
16 Tuba
8 Octave Trombone
4 Clarion
16 Pasaune [sic]

Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal
Swell to Pedal Octave
Choir to Pedal
Solo & Echo to Pedal
Solo & Echo to Pedal Octave
Pedal Super Octave
Choir to Pedal Octave
Six adjustable pistons to control Pedal stops

ECHO ORGAN

16 Lieblich Bourdon
8 Small Diapason
8 Gamba
8 Dolce
8 Cor de Nuit
8 Chimney Flute
8 Unda Maris
4 Flauto Dolce

Solo & Echo Unison off
Great to Solo & Echo
Echo “on”, Solo “off”
Choir “on”, Echo “off”
Echo “on”, Choir “off”

8 Vox Humana
Cathedral Chimes

Solo & Echo Sub
Solo & Echo Octave
Solo “on”, Echo “off”
Solo & Echo “on”
Eight adjustable pistons to control Solo & Echo stops

SOLO ORGAN

8 Tuba Magna
8 Tuba Marabilis [sic]
4 Tuba Clarion
8 Viole d’Orchestre
8 Viole Celeste
8 Concert Flute
4 Harmonic Flute
2 Harmonic Piccolo
8 Dolce
8 French Horn
8 Orchestral Oboe
8 Corno di Bassetto
8 Vox Humana
8 Harmonic Trumpet
8 Flugel Horn

Tremulant

The organ is voiced on 5-10-15 and 25 inches wind pressures. Eight composition pedals duplicating the eight general pistons over upper manual. Four zero pistons affecting Swell, Choir, Great, and Solo. Eight general pistons over upper manual affecting the entire organ including couplers, Adjustable. One zero piston over upper manual affecting the entire organ.

ACCESSORY [SIC]

Balanced Crescendo Pedal, adjustable, not moving registers
Balanced Swell Pedal
Balanced Choir Pedal
Balanced Solo & Echo Pedal
Great to Pedal, reversible
Solo to Pedal, reversible
Solo to Great, reversible
Sforzando Pedal

EXCERPTS FROM THE 1915 CONVENTION BROCHURE

“The exterior arrangement of the stops, couplers and accessories, with their measurements and positions, is in accordance with diagrams planned by Mr. Edwin H. Lemare, the celebrated organist, and the specifications of the organ or its scheme of stops, was designed by the Exposition authorities….

“The largest pipe of this organ is the 32 CCCC of the pedal Double Open Diapason. This pipe weighs over 1300 lbs., and is 32 feet in length. Special timber had to be sawed from selected logs to get planks of sufficient lenght and width for the construction of these pipes….

“The organ, like all other instruments of the Austin make, is built on their Universal Air Chest system… The largest chest is 41 feet long, 15 feet wide, and 7 feet high….

“There are four Austin Patent-Universal Air Chests… These air chests can be entered by means of air locks, while the wind is on, and in the largest of these air chambers it would be quite possible to seat comfortably at tables and serve a banquet to 75 persons. The organ weighs approximately forty tons.”

SUBSEQUENT HISTORY

(from Schoenstein & Co.’s reprint of the Convention Brochure)

“In 1963 the organ underwent extensive repairs including releathering of all the chest actions. At that time a new Austin console was furnished. The generator was replaced with a power supply. Changes made to the organ through the years are as follows:

“Great Organ, #6 Viole Gamba is a Flute Ouverte 4, #7 Dulciana is a Gambette 4, #8 is not used, #10 Philomela is a Flute Major 8, #20 French Trumpet is a Trombone 8. “Choir Organ, #7 Quintadena is a 2 rk. String 8. “Solo Organ, #9 Dolce is a Gedeckt 8, #10 French Horn is a Unda Maris T.C. 8, #14 is at 16 pitch. “Echo Organ, #3 Gamba is a Vox Angelica 8, #6 is not used. “Pedal Organ, Five new stops were prepared for: Diapason 8, Octave 4, Hohl Flute 4, Wald Flute 4 and a Mixture. “Wind Pressures in the organ are Great – Choir – Swell and Pedal, 10″; Solo 15″; Tuba Magna, 25”.

The organ was installed, removed, reinstalled in Civic Auditorium by, and was maintained by Schoenstein & Co.

In 1989, the organ and the building were heavily damaged in the Loma Prieta earthquake. The Organ is now is storage.

GREAT ORGAN(CC TO C4, 61 NOTES)