Better Pipe Organ Database

Reuter Organ Co. Opus 307 (1929)

Eighth Church of Christ, Scientist/Word of Life Slavic Baptist Church
3505 NE Multnomah
Portland, OR

Images

2021 - Church exterior (Photograph by Israel Fidel Martinez, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2022 - Church interior (Photograph by Nellie K, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

1929 - Front of church, console and organ chamber (Photograph from an archival source: From the 1929 Reuter catalog, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2012-12-06 - Console (Photograph by Lanny Hochhalter/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
3 manuals
47 stops
25 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2005-06-08 - Identified through on-line information from Lanny Hochhalter. -- -Database Manager

2007-03-01 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- Contract signed October 24, 1928. Organ installed in 1929. Swell Vox Humana is on its own chest with its own enclosure and its own Tremolo which automatically actuates when the stop is registered. -Database Manager

2013-10-28 - Updated through online information from Lanny Hochhalter. -- Building purchased by Word of Life Slavic Baptist Church. Status now unknown. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from <i>The Diapason</i> September 1928 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

     Portland, Oregon
     Eighth Church of Christ, Scientist

     Reuter  Op. 307   1928   3/27
     ______________________________________________________

     GREAT                             SWELL
 16' Open Diapason        73       16' Bourdon           73
  8' First Open Diapason  73       16' Contra Viole      73
  8' Second Open Diapason 12        8' Open Diapason     73
  8' Doppelflote          73        8' Stopped Diapason  12
  8' Viol da Gamba        73        8' Tibia Clausa      73
  4' Octave               12        8' Viole d'Orchestre 73
  4' Harmonic Flute       73        8' Salicional        12
  2' Super Octave         12        8' Voix Celeste      61
III  Mixture             183        4' Violina           12
 16' Posaune              73        4' Flauto Dolce      12
  8' Tuba                 12    2 2/3' Nasard             7
  4' Clarion              12        2' Flautino           5
     Sub                            8' Cornopean         73
     Unison Off                     8' Oboe              73
     Super                          8' Orchestral Oboe   --
     Chimes               20        8' Vox Humana        61
                                       Tremolo
     PEDAL                             Sub
 32' Resultant            --           Unison Off
 16' First Open Diapason  32           Super
 16' Second Open Diapason GT
 16' Bourdon              32           CHOIR
 16' Contra Viole         SW        8' Violin Diapason   73
 16' Lieblich Gedeckt     SW        8' Melodia           73
  8' Gedeckt              12        8' Dulciana          73
  8' Cello                12        8' Unda Maris        61
  4' Flute                12        4' Flute d'Amour     73
 16' Ophicleide           GT        8' English Horn      73
  8' Tromba               GT        8' Clarinet          73
                                       Tremolo
                                       Sub
                                       Unison Off
                                       Super

    [Received online from Jeff Scofield December 19, 2012]