El Centro, CA
State Street Christian Church

Elmer A. Todd's Specifications for State Street Christian Church Organ, 1914
Of a rebuilt organ prepared for Mr. E.A. Todd of 214 Blanchard Hall, Los Angeles,
California by the JOHNSTON ORGAN & PIANO MGF. Co., of Van Nuys, California

GREAT ORGAN
1. Open diapason	8’ Metal		61 pipes
2. Dulciana		8’ Metal		61 pipes
3. Melodia		8’ Wood			61 pipes
4. Gamba		8’ Metal		61 pipes
5. Flute d’amour	4’ Wood & Metal		61 pipes
6. Chimes		20 tubular Bells

SWELL ORGAN
1. Bourdon		16’ Wood		61 pipes
2. Open Diapason	8’ Metal		61 pipes
3. Salicional		8’ Metal		61 pipes
4. Aeoline		8’ Metal		61 pipes
5. Voix Celeste		8’ Metal		49 pipes
6. Stopped Diapason	8’ Wood			61 pipes
7. Harmonic Flute	4’ Metal		61 pipes
8. Piccolo		2’ Metal		61 pipes
9. Oboe			8’ Metal		61 pipes
10. Vox Humana		8’ Metal		61 pipes

PEDAL ORGAN
1. Bourdon*		16’ Wood		32 pipes
2. Lieblich Gedeckt	16’ Wood		32 pipes

COUPLERS
1. Pedal Octaves
2. Great to Pedal
3. Swell to Pedal
4. Swell Sub Octaves to Great
5. Swell to Great
6. Swell Octaves to Great
7. Swell Sub Octaves
8. Swell Octaves

PEDAL MOVEMENTS
1. Balanced Crescendo operating full organ
2. Balanced Swell
3. Great to Pedal Reversible

COMBINATION PISTONS
3 Pistons operating Great and Pedal Organs
4 Pistons operating Swell and Pedal Organs

ACCESSORIES
1. Swell Tremolo
2. Motor Starter
3. Direct Current Generator
4. Organ Bench
5. Electric Motor
6. Organ Blower

DETAILS OF CONSTRUCTION
Electro pneumatic action throughout the organ. Console to be entirely new, detached
and placed where desired. Console case to be made of Birch Mahogany and finished as
desired. Stop action to be controlled by draw stop knobs placed in vertical jambs at an
angle of 45 degrees. Couplers actions to be operated by tilting tablets placed in the name
board over the swell manual. Pedal board concave and radiating.

International pitch 435-A

Bellows to be rebuilt into a modern spring regulator type. Wind chests to be the slider
type, rebuilt and equipped with the electric pneumatic action. Swell box to be new,
made of 2’ solid lumber 10’ high. Building frame to be all new. Motor and blower to be
new, with all connections to organ, except wiring necessary to start and run motor.
Front pipes to be used pipes restored and finished in plain gold bronze, the design to be
submitted. All other pipes, except Oboe and Vox Humana, which are new, to be used
pipes revoiced, and with new tuning slides, proper wood pipe feet, and gates.

SUMMARY
Great Organ		5 stops		305 pipes
Swell Organ		10 stops	598 pipes
Pedal Organ		2 stops		32 pipes
Total Stops		17
Couplers		8
Pedal movements		3
Combination pistons	7
Accessories		6
Total console controls	41
Total speaking pipes			935 pipes
Bells			20#

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*likely borrowed from Swell Organ
#document in Streams in the Desert, by Ann Mitchell Horne, states “2” bells, which is
likely an error since it states there are 20 chimes in the Great Organ