Better Pipe Organ Database

Balcom and Vaughan Pipe Organs, Inc. Opus 812 (1975)

Peninsula Lutheran Church
6509 38th Ave. NW
Gig Harbor, WA

Images

2015-09-25 - Pipe Display (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

2015-09-25 - Console (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

2015-09-25 - Great Stops (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

2015-09-25 - Swell Stops (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

2015-09-25 - Pedal Stops (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

2015-09-25 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Unknown - Great Pipe Display (1997) (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Unknown - Console (1997) (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1976-05-14 - Organ and console (Photograph from Balcom and Vaughan Scrapbook; submitted by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
2 manuals
7 stops
21 registers
2 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: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons

Notes

2005-12-29 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

2008-05-11 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the console September 26, 2015 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Gig Harbor, Washington
Peninsula Lutheran Church (ELCA)

BALCOM and VAUGHAN PIPE ORGANS, Inc., Opus 812, 1975 - Original Specifications


GREAT                                        COUPLERS
   8'     Principal                 61          Swell to Pedal                  8
   8'     Rohr Flöte                61          Great to Pedal                  8
   8'     Gemshorn            (Sw)  --
   4'     Octave                    12          Swell to Great               16,8,4
   4'     Rohr Flöte                12
   2'     Principal           (Sw)  12
   III    Mixture  2'              183       FINGER PISTONS
   8'     Hautbois            (Sw)  --          General                       1 – 5
          blank                                 Sw. to Ped.                   (rev)
                                                Gt. to Ped.                   (rev)
   Great to Great 4'                            Sw. to Gt.                    (rev)
                                                Cancel

SWELL (Expressive)
   8'     Bordun                    61       TOE STUDS
   8'     Gemshorn                  61          General                       1 – 5
          blank                                 Gt. to Ped.                   (rev)
   4'     Principal                 61          Sw. to Ped.                   (rev)
   2'     Bordun                    24
   1-1/3' Nasat                      7
   8'     Hautbois                  61       PEDAL MOVEMENTS
          Tremulant                             Swell Expression             (bal.)
                                                Crescendo                    (bal.)
   Swell to Swell 16'
   Swell to Swell 4'


PEDAL                                        ACTION: Electro-Pneumatic unit
   16'    Sub Bass            (Sw)  12
   8'     Principal           (Gt)  --       VOICES: 7
   8'     Bordun              (Sw)  --
   4'     Choral Bass         (Gt)  --       STOPS: 22
   4'     Rohr Flöte          (Gt)  --
   2'     Octavin             (Gt)  --       RANKS: 9
   8'     Hautbois            (Sw)  --
   4'     Hautbois            (Sw)  --       PIPES: 628
          blank


NOTES
Even before the new [present] sanctuary was built in 1970, the congregation realized
that a new organ would be needed. At a congregational meeting on January 22, 1968, it
was voted to establish an Organ Fund with $500.00 appropriated from the budget. Upon
completion of the new edifice, the Church Council and Organ Committee set about the
task of selecting a builder. In the Spring of 1974, the congregation decided to pur-
chase a new pipe organ to be built by Balcom and Vaughan of Seattle. The 2-manual,
7-register, 9-rank instrument was first used for worship and dedicated on May 11, 1975.
The inaugural recital by guest organist Paul Reitz was given on June 1, 1975.

The organ is installed on the central axis of the room with an exposed Great and ex-
pressive Swell immediately behind. The exposed Great is 3-registers: 8'/4' Principal,
8'/4' Rohr Flöte, and III-rank Mixture 2'. The expressive Swell is 4-registers and
4-ranks with: 8'/2' Bordun, 8' Gemshorn, 4'/2' Principal, and 8' Hautbois. The Pedal
division has no independent registers, and is taken from extensions and borrows from
the Great and Swell.

Sources: Balcom and Vaughan opus list; JRS; extant organ

 [Received from James R. Stettner 2015-09-29.]