2005-12-29 - Identified through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- Mr. Spore began taking lessons at St. Joseph's RC Church in Seattle on their transplanted 3-manual Willis tracker. After inquiring about the grille in the wall, he discovered that their existing 3-manual 1930 Wangerin organ was still extant. The console cable had been severed and the console was in storage in the basement. In exchange for making a small, free-standing and encased, 1-manual transept organ utilizing some of the Wangerin pipework, he was given the Wangerin which he gradually installed in his home. This organ is very much an evolutionary instrument, with ranks being added, deleted, and traded regularly. The size posted was as of June 1999. Since then, the console has been sold to an organ technician in California. The organ now plays via two Moller "Artiste" players, and is also connected with a 2-manual, 10-rank Estey reed organ. Several small cases around the music room house one or two ranks with the majority of the pipework being in basement chambers. Windchests are original E-P Wangerin plus electro-mechanical additions and some top-note magnet chests. -Database Manager
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