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Balcom and Vaughan Pipe Organs, Inc. Opus 702 (1963)

Sacred Heart Catholic Church: Sanctuary; rear gallery
9460 NE 14th
Bellevue, WA

Images

2008-12-15 - Balcom and Vaughan archive photo (Digital image by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
27 stops
35 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
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2005-07-18 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Kilgen-style E-P unit chests. Great and Pedal exposed on back wall of gallery. Swell enclosed/expressive on left. Positiv enclosed/expressive on right. Organ rebuilt/enlarged by B&V in 1980. Location remained the same. -Database Manager

2007-06-27 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from Balcom and Vaughan files Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Bellevue, Washington
Sacred Heart Church

Balcom and Vaughan Pipe Organs, Inc., Opus 702, 1963 - Original Specifications


GREAT                                    SWELL (Expressive)
   8'     Principal              61         8'     Gedackt Floete        61
   8'     Gedackt Pommer         61         8'     Viola                 61
   4'     Oktav                  61         8'     Viola Celeste    (tc) 49
   4'     Rohr Floete            61         4'     Flute a Fuseau        61
   2'     Octave                 61         2-2/3' Quint                 61
   III    Fourniture            183         2'     Italian Principal     61
   8'     Trompet                61         III    Mixture              183
          Chimes  (Maas)        (2_)        8'     Trompette             61
                                                    Tremulant
   Great to Great 4'
                                            Swell to Swell 4'

POSITIV (Expressive)                        1 blank stop tablet
   8'     Singend Gedackt        61
   8'     Erzahler               61
   8'     Erzahler Celeste  (tc) 49      PEDAL
   4'     Koppel Floete          61         16'    Principal        (Gt) 12
   2-2/3' Nasat                  61         16'    Sub Bass         (Sw) 12
   2'     Block Floete           61         16'    Zart Bass        (Sw) --
   1-1/3' Rohr Quint             61         8'     Oktav Bass            32
   II     Sesquialtera [12-17]  122         8'     Gedackt          (Sw) --
   8'     Fagot                  61         4'     Koral Bass            12
   4'     Krummhorn              61         II     Rausch Quint          64
          Tremulant                         16'    Trompette        (Sw) 12
                                            4'     Krummhorn       (Pos) --
Positiv to Positiv 4'
                                            4 blank stop tablets
2 blank stop tablets


COUPLERS                                FINGER PISTONS
   Swell to Pedal              8,4         General                    1 - 6
   Great to Pedal              8,4         Swell                      1 - 4
   Positiv to Pedal            8,4         Great                      1 - 4
                                           Positiv                    1 - 4
   Swell to Great           16,8,4         G.C.
   Positiv to Great         16,8,4

   Swell to Positiv         16,8,4      TOE STUDS
                                           General                    1 - 6
                                           Pedal                      1 - 4
PEDAL MOVEMENTS                            Gt. to Ped.                (rev)
   Swell Expression         (bal.)
   Positiv Expression       (bal.)
   Crescendo                (bal.)


ACTION: E-P unit     VOICES: 27     STOPS: 35     RANKS: 33    PIPES: 1,950
                                  (inc.chimes)

NOTES
This organ was a cause for much celebration for Balcom and Vaughan. It was
their first large installation in a Catholic church. The Great and Pedal
are exposed on the rear wall of the rear gallery. The Swell is expressive
in a chamber on the left side of the rear gallery, and the Positiv is
expressive in a chamber on then right side.

The beginning composition for the Great III Fourniture is: 19-22-26. The
beginning composition for the Swell III Mixture is: 22-26-29. The Pedal II
Rausch Quint is 19-22.

In 1980, the organ was tonally altered and enlarged by Balcom and Vaughan.

 [Received from James R. Stettner 2010-12-29.]

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