The 1987 chapter of Opus 46 at Founders Chapel at the University of San Diego
Martin Ott Opus 46 was built in 1987 for Founders Chapel in San Diego. The organ occupies a former sacristy doorway, with a dark-stained oak facade shaped to the old stone portal. Richard Proulx advised on the divided keyboard, and Jerry Witt funded the instrument as a memorial to his father.
Opus 46 appears in the catalogue under 1987. At Founders Chapel at the University of San Diego in San Diego, California, catalogue dates can mark different stages of an organ project, and this entry does not choose among them. For Founders Chapel at the University of San Diego in San Diego, California, the exact stage remains open unless a narrative or dated document names it. In the Founders Chapel at the University of San Diego account from San Diego, California, current status requires newer evidence than the catalogue year.
San Diego as the setting for Opus 46
Founders Chapel at the University of San Diego in San Diego, California is the named institutional setting. A church instrument may meet congregational, choral, and solo demands, but those uses cannot all be assigned to this organ unless the San Diego project account says so. No floor plan or measured acoustic data accompanies the entry, so the building's present response and the San Diego organ's balance within it remain open questions.
The recorded scale of Opus 46 at Founders Chapel at the University of San Diego
Opus 46 is listed with 8 stops and 10 ranks. Within the documented San Diego chapter, those numbers answer different questions: stops describe controls, while ranks count sets of pipes. The rank count on Opus 46 exceeds the stop count by 2. For the Founders Chapel at the University of San Diego project in San Diego, California, multi-rank chorus stops may contribute to that gap; only the full disposition can show how. The figures recorded for the San Diego project establish the documented scale, not the exact number of pipes, the balance between divisions, or the sound of a particular chorus.
Action and control in the San Diego project: Opus 46
For Opus 46 at Founders Chapel at the University of San Diego, mechanical action is the listed key system. At Founders Chapel at the University of San Diego in San Diego, California, in broad terms, the player's finger moves a chain of physical parts rather than sending only an electrical command. For the Founders Chapel at the University of San Diego project in San Diego, California, the entry does not give tracker lengths, key weight, console distance, or a condition report, so no claim is made about responsiveness now.
Beyond the totals: one clue from Founders Chapel at the University of San Diego: Opus 46
Beyond the totals, Opus 46 is defined by the source's own sequence: it was installed in a former sacristy doorway and it has a dark-stained oak facade. A church commission raises practical questions about leading song, accompanying a choir, and fitting the instrument at Founders Chapel at the University of San Diego into the room. The San Diego project details above do not answer questions about registration or repertoire. For the Founders Chapel at the University of San Diego project in San Diego, California, those need a specification and evidence of actual services or recitals. The listed 8-stop, 10-rank scale remains the numerical boundary for this reading.
The later chapter at Founders Chapel at the University of San Diego: Opus 46
A workshop concert on April 5, 1989, featured Proulx, Jay Peterson, Willard Cobb, and Linda Preece. Proulx's commissioned Variations on Sine Nomine received its first performance there. The chapel dedication recital followed on September 15. The source thus connects the adapted doorway, memorial gift, new composition, and two opening events in one dated sequence.
Photographs and unanswered questions from San Diego: Opus 46
Image evidence for Opus 46 begins with images/046/046_m.jpg; 3 linked files carry the same project number. At Founders Chapel at the University of San Diego in San Diego, California, that is enough to investigate identity, not enough to treat the files as freely reusable photography. The source page for Founders Chapel at the University of San Diego supplies no complete credit or licence.
What remains unknown about Opus 46 is concrete: its present location, condition, and complete current specification. The Founders Chapel at the University of San Diego history could be extended by an identified console or case photograph and a dated institutional account. At Founders Chapel at the University of San Diego in San Diego, California, until then, the old chronology is not evidence of current access.