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532 Center Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060

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532 Center Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Shoenstein Organ Installation

Organ installation – the final weeks

2018-11-18 by Alex Johnson Leave a Comment

The last two weeks have seen our organ installation really take it's final shape. Bill has been working continuously and making rapid progress toward our goal of hearing it in a week for our special Choral Eucharist on Christ the King Sunday. Kymm [Read more...]

Posted in: Music, Shoenstein Organ Installation

ORGAN RECITAL CANCELLED

2018-11-17 by Murray Walker

We regret to announce that the Organ Recital with Patrick Wedd, scheduled for November 18, has had to be cancelled due to an injury. Watch the Music Page of this website for updates.

Posted in: Music, Shoenstein Organ Installation

Organ installation update – the home stretch

2018-11-04 by Alex Johnson Leave a Comment

The pile is getting smaller! These last several weeks have seen lots of continuing activity on our big organ transplant. I've had a bit less time to work on the project, having been doing some traveling for work, but progress has been steady [Read more...]

Posted in: Music, Shoenstein Organ Installation Tagged: Music, Organ

Another update on our installation – its starting to look like an organ!

2018-10-13 by Alex Johnson Leave a Comment

With all of the work we've been doing on the organ and my work schedule, I haven't been able to post an update on our progress for a few weeks, but here it is! Lots of activity and progress, with the inevitable hiccups along the way. The pile in [Read more...]

Posted in: Shoenstein Organ Installation Tagged: Music, Organ

Week of 17 September 2018: Various installation tasks & some pipe installation.

2018-09-25 by Alex Johnson

Another week of installation and an amazing turn-out throughout the week from lots of different people. On Sunday I realized we can see progress in the choir room: the pile of stuff in there is getting noticeably smaller! The new relay in the [Read more...]

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Week of 10 September 2018: Wiring (mostly) complete & more installation

2018-09-18 by Alex Johnson

It’s been another good week of organ installation progress. Here’s what happened: Moved the parts temporarily stored in the organ chamber for the Bishop’s visit back out into the pews.Completed wiring for the new lights and outlets in the organ [Read more...]

Posted in: Shoenstein Organ Installation

Week of 3 September 2018: More wiring & Bishop Mary’s visit

2018-09-11 by Alex Johnson Leave a Comment

Last week we made quite a lot of progress on our big organ transplant. Again, we had a great turnout of parishioners to help out, and our activities included: Bill Visscher installed the great division wind chest shells on their supports in the [Read more...]

Posted in: Shoenstein Organ Installation Tagged: Music, Organ

Wiring a foot board

2018-09-08 by Alex Johnson Leave a Comment

Murray admires the new wind chests for the great and swell divisions. As a way to help reduce the cost of our new Shoenstein organ, the parish agreed to provide some of the labor for the project. Our big task is to install the wiring on the wind [Read more...]

Posted in: Shoenstein Organ Installation Tagged: Music, Organ

Organ Parts Available!

2018-09-05 by Alex Johnson Leave a Comment

With the installation of our new Shoenstein organ, we also have the task of disposing the parts of our old Moeller organ. All of the parts are now removed and are sitting on the porch of the office. Instead of just carting it all off to the [Read more...]

Posted in: Shoenstein Organ Installation Tagged: Moeller, Music, Organ

Week of 27 August 2018: Wiring and Installation

2018-09-04 by Alex Johnson Leave a Comment

Installation of our new organ has progressed rapidly in this last week, with lots of help from our parishioners. This week's work included: Completed stripping the old wiring and de-soldering electrical connections from the Shoenstein [Read more...]

Posted in: Shoenstein Organ Installation Tagged: Music, Organ
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532 Center Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060

831-423-8787

THIS SUNDAY - JUNE 1st

We'll be holding a Morning Prayer II service at 10 am. Join us!

REGULAR SCHEDULE

Sunday 8:00 a.m. Rite I Spoken

Sunday 9:00 a.m. Contemplative with Communion

Sunday 9:30 a.m. Adult Forum

Sunday 10:30 a.m. Choral Eucharist - Rite II

Tuesday 11:00 a.m. Bible Study (Zoom only)

Thursday 11:30 a.m. Mid-Week Eucharist

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