Better Pipe Organ Database

Unknown Builder (1918)

First Presbyterian Church
Aberdeen, WA

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Images

Unknown - Church Exterior ((ca. 1920) Vintage Postcard; image courtesy of James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1951-03-21 - Easter Sunday service (Photograph in church archives; digital image produced with permission by James R. Stettner./Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
2 manuals
8 stops
8 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)

Notes

2005-06-24 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The church had an Akron plan sanctuary. The organ was free-standing and encased at the front of the church on the right in a slightly elevated organ/choir loft. The console was detached and centered in front of the case. The facade was 5-sectional containing 49 pipes arranged: 11-5-17-5-11. (preceding info taken from an extant photo dated March 25, 1951) The church history states, "In 1918, a pipe organ was purchased from the old Rex Theatre." The congregation built a new building soon after the picture was taken, and the new church has a 1952 Wicks. -Database Manager

2005-07-03 - Online update from James R. Stettner -- Mechanical Swell Shade controls. -Database Manager