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Hinners Organ Co. (1916)

First Reformed Church
Lynden, WA

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Images

1956-09-06 - Organ case/facade (Lynden Tribune/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
11 stops
11 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Has combination trundles

Notes

2005-12-30 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ was free-standing and encased with a 5-sectional facade containing 37 pipes arranged: 5-3-8-5-8-3-5. This included pipes 1-17 of the Great 8' Open Diapason, pipes 1-12 of the Swell 8' Violin Diapason, and 1-8 of the Great 4' Principal. The organ was electrified, rebuilt, and enlarged for the new church in 1958 by Balcom and Vaughan of Seattle. -Database Manager

2024-06-18 - The Ed Boadway Hinners opus list records this instrument as having been 11 ranks. 10 identifiable Hinners ranks survived in the 1958 Balcom and Vaughan electrification for the new church. It seems likely that the 11th rank would have been on the Great, and was likely either an 8' Gamba or a 4' Flute d'Amour. -Jim Stettner

Stoplist

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

Lynden, Washington
First Reformed Church

HINNERS ORGAN CO., Opus ____, 1904 - "Original Specifications"


GREAT                                        COUPLERS (d-k; Over Sw. keys; l – r)
   8   Open Diapason                61          Gr. to Ped. Coupler
   8   Melodia                      61          Sw. to Ped. Coupler
   8   Dulciana                     61
   4   Principal                    61          Sw. to Gr. Coupler
                                                Sw. Oct. to Gr. Coupler

SWELL (Expressive)
   8   Violin Diapason              61       FOOT LEVERS (Unlabeled; l – r)
   8   Lieblich Gedackt             61          Piano - Sw: 8' L.G., 8' Sal.   (d-a)
   8   Salicional                   61                  Gr: 8' Mel., 8' Dul.
   4   Flute Harmonic               61
   8   Oboe Gamba                   61          Forte - Sw: 8, 8, 8, 4.  (full)
       Sw. Tremolo                                      Gr: 8, 8, 8, 4.  (full)
                                                        Ped: 16' Bourdon

PEDAL
   16  Bourdon                      27       PEDAL MOVEMENTS
                                                Swell Expression              (bal.)


ACTION: Mech. Key & Stop     VOICES: 10     STOPS: 10     RANKS: 10     PIPES: 576


NOTES
The preceding stoplist is not verified since the original keydesk has long since been replaced.
The names of stops given are based on extant and other documented examples of the builder's work
from this period as well as the present nomenclature of the rebuilt, electrified instrument.  

The instrument was housed in a free-standing case, likely made of quarter-sawn oak with 17 pipes
of the Great 8' Open Diapason in the façade along with notes 1-12 of the Swell 8' Violin Diapason
and notes 1 - 5 of the Great 4' Principal.

The bottom 12 notes of the Swell 8' Salicional were mitred to fit inside the enclosure.

The organ was electrified, rebuilt, enlarged to 11 ranks, and placed in divided chambers in 1958
by Balcom and Vaughan of Seattle, WA, as their opus 650.

Sources: Extant photo of the organ; extant pipework in the electrified organ

 [Received from James R. Stettner 2012-05-10.]

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#22479 - Balcom and Vaughan Opus 650 (1958)