Lakeside Pipe Organ
Click Here for MP3 Demos [split] About Contents Kontakt Format Specifications Videos The Lakeside Pipe Organ is a Rodgers steel and wooden pipe-electric hybrid organ located at the Lakeside Temple of Practical Christianity, in downtown Oakland, California. This large pipe organ produces its sound by venting mechanically compressed air (wind) through 850 resonant steel pipes and wooden reeds, arranged in 15 ranks. Each pipe produces sound at one fixed pitch, so they are provided in sets with one pipe or more per note, each set or stop having a common timbre and loudness throughout. The Lakeside Pipe Organ has multiple sets of pipes of differing timbre, pitch and loudness which the player can employ singly or in combination. The actual organ is made from three keyboards and a foot pedal board for bass notes, each of which controls its own group of stops. We recorded this grand instrument with Lakeside Temple Music Director and organist Don Sears. The combination of th