Unknown - Console ((2008) Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
2005-12-30 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- This was an electrification, rebuild, and enlargement of the church's existing 1904 Hinners tracker for the new church edifice. All new Kilgen-style E-P unit chests were built by Balcom and Vaughan. Some treble extensions are on electro-mechanical offset chests. The original Swell 4' Harmonic Flute was moved to the Great. -Database Manager
Stoplist copied from the console April 1995 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Lynden, Washington
First Reformed Church
HINNERS ORGAN CO., Opus ____, 1904
Balcom and Vaughan, Opus 650, 1958 - "Electrification, Rebuild and Enlargement"
GREAT (Expressive) COUPLERS
8 Open Diapason 61 Swell to Pedal 8,4
8 Melodia 61 Great to Pedal 8,4
8 Dulciana 61
blank Swell to Great 16,8,4
4 Principal 61
blank
4 Flute [harmonic] 61 FINGER PISTONS
Tremolo General 1 – 3
Swell & Pedal 1 – 3
Great to Great 16' Great & Pedal 1 – 3
Great Unison Off
Great to Great 4'
PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression (bal.)
SWELL (Expressive) Great Expression (bal.)
16 Bass Flute (tc) -- Crescendo (bal.)
8 Violin Diapason 61
8 Stopped Flute 61
8 Salicional 61
8 Voix Celeste (tc) 49
4 Flute 12
2-2/3 Nazard 7
2 Flautina 5
8 Trumpet 61
Tremolo
Swell to Swell 16'
Swell Unison Off ACTION: E-P unit
Swell to Swell 4'
VOICES: 11
PEDAL (Expressive) STOPS: 17
16 Bourdon 27
16 Gedeckt (Ped/Sw) -- RANKS: 11
blank
8 Flute (Sw) -- PIPES: 649
NOTES
The original organ was a II-manual, 10-rank, tracker-action organ built by the Hinners Organ
Co. of Pekin, IL. for the previous church edifice. It was a free-standing organ with the first
17 pipes of the Great 8' Open Diapason in the façade along with the bottom octave of the Swell
8' Violin Diapason, and the first 5 pipes of the Great 4' Principal. The present Great 4'
Flute was originally in the Swell. The drawknobs would have been in terraced stopjambs on
either side of the manuals. The couplers would have been drawknobs placed over the Swell keys
in the nameboard.
The Balcom and Vaughan work consisted of providing new unit windchests for the entire organ.
The Swell 8' Stopped Flute was extended by 24 pipes in the treble. The original independent
Pedal 16' Bourdon has only 27 pipes, so it borrows its top 5 notes from the Swell 8' Stopped
Flute. The Pedal 16' Gedeckt borrows its first 12 notes from the 16' Bourdon on "soft wind",
and the balance from the Swell 8' Stopped Flute. A new console with combination action was
provided, and the rebuilt organ was placed in divided chambers. The Swell 8' Voix Celeste is
the original 8' Oboe Gamba. The 8' Trumpet was added new at the time of the rebuild and
electrification.
Sources: Church archives; Balcom and Vaughan opus list and files; extant organ
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