San Francisco, CA St. Mary's Cathedral

This postcard features the instrument in St. Mary's Cathedral, San Francisco, California. The organ was built by the Ruffatti firm and installed in 1971. The organ has 89 ranks of pipes, 69 stops and includes about 4800 pipes. It is interesting for the lack of a case for the organ. In that regard it is rather like many instruments built by the US firm Holtkamp in the mid- to late-1900's. The postcard neatly captures both the console and the pipework of the instrument.