Los Angeles, CA
St. John's Episcopal Church 

Builder:		Skinner Organ Co.
  Year:			1923
  Opus:			446 / 446-A
No. manuals:		4
No. stops:		57
No. ranks:		56
No. pipes:		3,557

Specification 

Great - 7 1/2" wind
	16'	Bourdon			17	(Pedal ext.)
	8'	First Diapason		61
	8'	Second Diapason		61
	8'	Clarabella		61
	8'	Erzahler		61
	4'	Octave			61
	2 2/3'	Twelfth			61	(added as 446-A in 1926, voice normal)
	V	Quint Mixture		305	(added as 446-A in 1926, voice normal)
	8'	Cornopean		SW
Swell - 7 1/2" wind
	16'	Bourdon			73
	8'	Diapason		73
	8'	Wald Flute		73	(Clarabella)
	8'	Gedeckt			73
	8'	Voix Celestes II	146
	8'	Gamba			73
	8'	Flute Celeste II	134
	4'	Octave			73	(made louder in 1926)
	4'	Flute			61
	4'	Unda Maris II		122
	2'	Piccolo			61
	V	French Cornet		365	(added as 446-A in 1926, voice strong)
	III	Mixture			183	(12-15-19)
	16'	Fagotto			73
	8'	Cornopean		73	(new pipes 1926, 5" scale, voice strong as poss)
	8'	Corno d'Amore		73
	8'	Vox Humana		73
	4'	Clarion			73	(added as 446-A in 1926, voice normal)
		Tremolo
Choir - 6" wind
	8'	Diapason		73
	8'	Concert Flute		73
	8'	Dulciana		73
	4'	Flute			73
	2 2/3'	Nazard			61
	8'	Clarinet		73
		Tremolo
		Harp			61	bars
		Celesta
Solo - 10" wind
	8'	Cello			73
	8'	Gamba Celeste		73
	8'	Orchestral Flute	61
	8'	Doppelflote		73	(added as 446-A in 1926, voice full)
	8'	Tuba Mirabilis		73	(17 1/2" wind)
	8'	French Horn		61
	8'	English Horn		73
		Tremolo
Pedal - 6" wind
	32'	Diapason		--	resultant
	16'	Diapason		32
	16'	Violone			32
	16'	Bourdon			32
	16'	Echo Bourdon		SW
	8'	Octave			12
	8'	Gedeckt			12
	8'	Still Gedeckt		SW
	4'	Flute			12
	32'	Bombarde		32	(15" wind for unit)
	16'	Trombone		12
	16'	Fagotto			SW
	8'	Tromba			12


Source: Shop notes provided by Allen Kinzey.

Photo Source: Jim Lewis.

Notes:  (courtesy of Robert E. Grasier) According to James Lewis's book available on the OHS website, Organs in the Land of Sunshine:  Fifty-two Years of Organs in Los Angeles, 1880-1932, "The director of music at St. John's for 40 years was Roland Diggle.  After Diggle's death, local service technicians tinkered with the organ frequently in an effort to brighten and modernize it.  The greatest injuries were accomplished during the neo-Baroque rage when the expression shades were removed from the Choir and its pipework rearranged in an effort to create a Positiv division.  Finally, the entire Great was removed in the 1970's, along with the thirty-two foot octave of the Pedal Bombarde, to make room for an entirely new Great division that never got along well with the older, large-scale voices of the original organ."  To update as of 2010, Manuel Rosales recently completed restorations and renovations reversing many of the changes made, including bringing the Swell, Choir, Solo and Pedal back to a near-original state, including reinstallation of the 32' octave of the Pedal Bombarde.

 

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