Southern Oregon University: Music Building - Recital Hall
1250 Siskiyou
Ashland, OR
Images
1991-09-13 - Great division at the center (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
1991-09-13 - Positiv division at the left (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
1991-09-13 - Pedal Principals at the right (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
1991-09-13 - More Pedal pipes behind the Pedal case (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
1991-09-13 - Expressive Swell behind the Positiv (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
1975-05-15 - Stage and organ (Photograph from Balcom and Vaughan Scrapbook; submitted by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
1980-06-06 - Organ (Photograph in Balcom & Vaughan files/Database Manager)
1970-05-17 - Drawing (Drawing from Balcom and Vaughan files/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Non-Traditional Style, As Consoles by Holtkamp, Schlicker, et al
- Console position: Movable Console
- 3 manuals
- 29 stops
- 30 registers
- 4 divisions
- Key action Type: Electrical
- Stop action Type: Electrical
- Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets Above Top Manual
- Manual compass: 61 notes
- Pedal compass: 32 notes
- Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Has crescendo
- Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
- Has sequencer
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has combination toe pistons
- Has coupler thumb pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
- Has tutti thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2005-07-18 - Identified through online information from Lanny Hochhalter. -- Concert Hall instrument. Solid-state memory and electric tilting-tablets installed by Hochhalter, Inc. in 2000. Otherwise organ is unaltered. -Database Manager
2007-03-22 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The Great, Positiv, and part of the Pedal are housed in geometric cases at the back of the stage area with the Positiv, left; the Great center; and the Pedal, right. The Swell enclosure is in the back, left corner behind the Positiv. The balance of the Pedal is behind its divisional case. The slider chests are a design by Charles Fisk when he was founding the Andover Organ Co.. It utilizes a floating pallet valve with an E-P primary action. It was originally done in Perflex and was releathered by the builder in the early 1990s. -Database Manager
2007-05-16 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager
2017-06-06 - Updated by Margaret Evans, who has heard or played the organ.<br>
The tonal scheme is original. We have had some of the original "chiff" minimized. -Database Manager
2018-02-23 - Updated by Margaret Evans, who has heard or played the organ.<br>
MIDI prepared, 100 memory levels -Database Manager
Stoplist
Stoplist copied from the console September 13, 1991 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Ashland, Oregon
Southern Oregon State University
BALCOM & VAUGAHN PIPE ORGANS, Inc., Opus 804, 1974 - Original Specifications
GREAT COUPLERS
16 Quintade 61 Swell to Pedal 8
8 Prinzipal 61 Great to Pedal 8
8 Rohr Flöte 61 Positiv to Pedal 8
4 Oktave 61
2 Super Oktave 61 Swell to Great 8
IV Mixture 1⅓' 244 Positiv to Great 8
8 Trompete 61
Swell to Positiv 8
1 blank rocker tablet
Positiv to Swell 8
SWELL (Expressive)
8 Bordun 61 FINGER PISTONS
8 Viole de Gambe 61 General 1 – 6
8 Viole Celeste (GG) 56 Swell 1 – 4
4 Prinzipal 61 Sw. to Ped. (rev)
2 Block Flöte 61 Sw. to Gt. (rev)
II Sesquialtera 2⅔' (tc) 98 Sw. to Pos. (rev)
III Scharf ⅔' 183 Great 1 – 4
8 Hautbois 61 Gt. to Ped. (rev)
Tremulant Positiv 1 – 4
Pos. to Ped. (rev)
Swell to Swell 16' Pos. to Gt. (rev)
Swell Unison Off Pedal 1 – 4
Swell to Swell 4' Full Organ (rev)
Cancel
1 blank rocker tablet
TOE STUDS
POSITIV General 1 – 6
8 Koppel Flöte 61 Pedal 1 – 4
4 Rohr Flöte 61 Gt. to Ped. (rev)
2 Prinzipal 61 Full Organ (rev)
1-1/3 Quinte 61
1 Sifflöte 61
8 Krummhorn 61 PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Tremulant Swell Expression (bal.)
Crescendo (bal.)
1 blank rocker tablet
PEDAL
16 Sub Bass 32 ACTION: Electric Slider; E-P Unit
16 Quintade (Gt) --
16 Gedackt Bass 20 VOICES: 29
8 Octave 32
8 Metal Gedackt 32 STOPS: 30
4 Choral Bass 32
III Mixture 2' 96 RANKS: 37
16 Posaune 32
4 Rohr Schalmei 32 PIPES: 1,926
NOTES
The organ is displayed across the the front of the auditorium at the rear of the stage.
The divisions – left-to-right – are: Positiv in front with the expressive Swell behind;
Great at the center; and Pedal 8' Octave and 4' Choral Bass in the case at the right
with the balance of the Pedal pipework behind it.
The organ is very much in the style of a Phelps or Brunzema Casavant from the same period,
but borrows the Great 16' Quintade very much like a Holtkamp.
The Pedal 16' Gedackt borrows its bottom 12 notes from the 16' Sub Bass on soft wind.
The console is located atop a moveable platform.
The windchest primaries were removed to the Balcom and Vaughan shop ca. 1991 by employees
Michael Chervenock and Jim Stettner to re-leather the Perflex ™ pouches.
Sources: Balcom and Vaughan opus list and files; JRS; extant organ
[Received from James R. Stettner 2013-02-17.]
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