2005-12-29 - Identified through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- Organ originally built for Sunnyside Seventh-day Adventist Church in Portland, OR. Church built a new facility and got a new Rieger tracker. Old edifice became a Masonic Lodge. Masons sold the organ in 1986. It was removed, altered, enlarged, and re-installed by Loren Minear of Salem, Oregon. The Vox Humana was altered to be a Krummhorn, and an unenclosed 4' Octave was added to the Swell. -Database Manager
Stoplist copied from the console April 7, 1995 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Kennewick, Washington
Kennewick Baptist Church
The REUTER ORGAN CO., Opus 200, 1927
Loren & Karen Minear, 1986 - Moving & Reinstallation, Tonal Changes, & Additions
GREAT (Expressive) COUPLERS
8 Diapason 73 Swell 8' Pedal
8 Melodia 61 Great 8' Pedal
8 Violin (Sw) -- Great 4' Pedal
8 Dulciana 73
4 Flute Traverso (Mel) 12 Swell 16' Great
8 Tuba 73 Swell 8' Great
Chimes (A 22 – e 41) (20) Swell 4' Great
Great 16' Great
Great Unison Off FINGER PISTONS
Great 4' Great Swell & Pedal 1 - 4
Great & Pedal 1 - 4
SWELL (Expressive)
16 Bourdon 12 TOE STUDS
8 Diapason 73 Gr. to Ped. (rev)
8 Gedeckt 61
8 Salicional 61
8 Vox Celeste (tc) 61 PEDAL MOVEMENTS
8 Aeoline (Gt) -- Expression (bal.)
4 Octave [new] 61 Crescendo (bal.)
4 Flute Dolce 12
4 Violina 12
2-2/3 Nasard 7
2 Flautino 5
8 Oboe 73
8 Krummhorn 73
Tremolo
Swell 16' Swell
Swell Unison Off ACTION: E-P; D-E
Swell 4' Swell
VOICES: 11
PEDAL (Expressive) STOPS: 24; inc. chimes
16 Open Diapason (Gt) 12
16 Lieblich Gedeckt (Sw) -- RANKS: 11
8 Dolce Flute (Sw) --
8 Cello (Sw) -- PIPES: 815
NOTES
This organ was originally built for Sunnyside Seventh-day Adventist Church of Port-
land, Oregon. It was installed at their building on SE 43rd and Washington in 1927,
and remained in service in that edifice even after the congregation built a new
church in 1984. In 1985, they installed a new Rieger tracker-action organ.
The Reuter was left behind in the old church which was purchased by the Masons for
use as a lodge. The Masons sold the organ to Loren & Karen Minear of Salem, Oregon
who moved it to Kennewick Baptist Church in Kennewick, Washington, and reinstalled
it there with tonal changes and one addition. It was dedicated in its new home on
December 7, 1986.
On the Swell, the 8' Aeoline is actually a borrow of the Great 8' Dulciana. The 8'
Vox Humana has had copper and brass resonators soldered-on to create a sort of
Krummhorn. The stop tablet controlling the original 8' Orch. Oboe now controls a
set of exposed pipes called Octave on a direct-electric, diatonically-divided chest.
On the Great, the 8' Violin is actually a borrow of the Swell 8' Salicional. No tonal
changes or additions were made to the Great.
The Pedal 16' Open Diapason extension of the Great 8' Open Diapason is actually a
very generously-scaled set of stopped wood pipes.
Sources: Copy of Reuter's scale sheets; Sunnyside church history; extant organ
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