Better Pipe Organ Database

Karl Wilhelm Opus 52 (1977)

Lewis & Clark College: Evans Music Center
0615 SW Palatine Hill Rd., MSC 18
Portland, OR

Images

1990-10-23 - Upper Casework (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1990-10-23 - Keydesk (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
8 stops
8 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Suspended Tracker)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: No Enclosed Divisions
Combination action: None
Has hitchdown couplers

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1977. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Self contained, on moveable platform. Suspended key action. -Database Manager

2007-02-19 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- The case is of oak, and the façade is 3-sectional, containing pipes of the Man. I 4' Prinzipal. The entire organ is placed atop a rolling platform, and the organ can be rolled into a storage area at the left side of the stage where it can still be used for practice. The posted specification incorrectly identified the Manual II 2' stop as Gemshorn. The knob is engraved: 2' Prinzipal. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the console October 23, 1990 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Portland, Oregon
Lewis & Clark College - Evans Hall - Auditorium

Karl Wilhelm, Opus 52, 1977 - Original Specifications


MANUAL I                                     COUPLERS (Hitch-down)
   8     Rohrflöte                  56          II / Ped
   4     Prinzipal                  56          I / Ped
   III   Mixture      [22-26-29]   168
                                                II / I

MANUAL II
   8     Gedackt                    56       FOOT LEVERS (labeled; h-d; l-r)
   4     Rohrflöte                  56          II - I
   2     Prinzipal                  56
   1-1/3 Quinte                     56          I / Ped
                                                II / Ped

PEDAL
   16    Bourdon                    30


ACTION: Mech. Susp. Key      VOICES: 8     STOPS: 8      RANKS: 10      PIPES: 534
        & Mech. Stop


NOTES
The organ is free-standing and encased with an attached keydesk. The entire oak case
is placed atop a moveable platform,and can be rolled into a storage room at the left
side of the stage where it may still be used for practice.

The organ was pictured in the November 1977 issue of Music. The Swell 2' stop is in-
correctly listed therein as a 2' Gemshorn.

The lowest 12 pipe of the Pedal 16' Bourdon are outside of and at the rear of the case.


Sources: Music, Vol. 11, No. 11, November 1977, pg. 30; JRS; extant organ

 [Received from James R. Stettner 2013-02-17.]