First United Methodist Church: Sanctuary; rear gallery
1050 SE Ireland St.
Oak Harbor, WA
Images
2021-03-25 - Console: Pedal stops (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2021-03-25 - Console: Swell stops (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2021-03-25 - Console: Great stops (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2021-03-25 - Console (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2021-03-25 - Rear gallery chamber grille (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2019-11-15 - Sanctuary interior from rear, organ gallery (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2020-01-15 - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
Consoles
Rear Gallery
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
- 2 manuals
- 11 stops
- 39 registers
- 3 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 combination toe pistons
Notes
2006-06-12 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ is installed in a wide, shallow chamber than spans the full width of the rear gallery. While both Great and Swell are expressive, they have been placed on chests as independent divisions with some borrowing between divisions. There is room to place a dividing wall between the two halves if ever desired. -Database Manager
2021-03-26 - The organ has received a Peterson multi-level memory installed at an unknown date. New stop action magnets and new engraved stop tablets were included. This has slightly altered the stoplist as engraved, but no additions were made. The Fagott has been renamed Hautbois, but the construction is definitely Fagott. The Great 8'/4' Holz Gedeckt is now just Gedeckt. The Swell Plein Jeu no longer has a Roman numeral for the number of ranks. A few other stops are different. And the Pedal Hautbois (orig., Fagott) has been returned to 4' pitch. -Jim Stettner
Stoplist
Stoplist copied from the console May, 1996 Source: Stoplist copied from the console May, 1996; verified & updated March 25, 2021
Oak Harbor, Washington
First United Methodist Church
BALCOM AND VAUGHAN PIPE ORGANS, INC., Opus 790, 1972 - Original Specifications
GREAT (Expressive) COUPLERS
16 Rohr Flute (Sw) -- Swell to Pedal 8
8 Principal 61 ▲ Great to Pedal 8
8 Holz Gedeckt 61 □
8 Spitz Gamba (Sw) -- ☼ Swell to Great 16,8,4
4 Octave 61 ♥
4 Holz Gedeckt 12 □
2-2/3 Nasat (Sw) 19 ☼ FINGER PISTONS
2 Super Octave 24 ▲ General 1 - 6
III-IV Mixture 19-22-26-29 232 Swell 1 - 4
16 Trompette (Sw) -- ∆ Sw. to Ped. (rev)
8 Trompette (Sw) -- ∆ Sw. to Gt. (rev)
8 Fagott 68 ● Great 1 - 4
Gt. to Ped. (rev)
Pedal 1 - 4
SWELL (Expressive) Cancel
8 Spitz Gamba 61 ☼
8 Spitz Gamba Celeste (GG) 54
8 Rohr Flute 61 ○ TOE STUDS
4 Principal 61 ♠ General 1 – 6
4 Rohr Flute 12 ○ Pedal 1 - 4
2 Octavin 12 ♠ Gt. to Ped. (rev)
2 Holz Gedeckt (Gt) 12 □
1-1/3 Quint 5 ☼
1 Rohr Flute 12 ○ PEDAL MOVEMENTS
IV Plein Jeu 22-26-29-33 (Gt) -- Expression (bal.)
8 Trompette 68 ∆ Crescendo (bal.)
8 Fagott (Gt) –- ●
4 Trompette 12 ∆
Tremulant SWITCHES (Top, Rt. Keycheek)
PD to MAN COMB [Sw] On/Off
Swell to Swell 16' PD to MAN COMB [Gt] On/Off
Swell Unison Off
Swell to Swell 4'
PEDAL (Expressive)
32 Resultant --
16 Subbass 32
16 Rohr Flute (Ped/Sw) –- ○
8 Principal (Gt) –- ▲
8 Spitz Gamba (Sw) –- ☼
8 Rohr Flute (Sw) -- ○ ACTION: E-P unit
4 Octave (Gt) –- ▲
4 Holz Gedeckt (Gt) -- □ VOICES: 11
2 Super Octave (Gt) –- ▲
IV Mixture 15-19-22-26 (Gt) -- ♥ STOPS: 39
16 Trompette (Sw) 12 ∆
8 Trompette (Sw) -- ∆ RANKS: 14
8 Fagott [was 4'] (Gt) –- ●
4 Trompette (Sw) –- ∆ PIPES: 952
NOTES
The church's first pipe organ was also a Balcom and Vaughan. It was destroyed with
the church in a fire on February 17, 1971.
The organ is installed in the rear gallery and is entirely chambered and expressive.
The organist faces across the gallery with their right side facing the chancel.
The Swell Spitz Gamba Celeste borrows notes 1-7 from the Rohr Flute. The Swell IV
Plein Jeu is borrowed from the Great IV Mixture an octave higher. Its top octave
breaks back. The top 7 notes of the Swell 1-1/3 Quint repeat pipes from the prev-
ious octave. The Swell Trompette is harmonic (@ f# 43) and has parallel shallots.
The top octave of the Swell 1' Rohr Flute repeats.
The Pedal IV Mixture is derived from the Great 4' Octave. The Pedal 16' Rohr Flute
borrows notes 1-12 of the Pedal 16' Subbass on soft wind, and the balance from the
Rohr Flute. The Pedal 8' Fagott was originally a 4' stop when the Fagott was added
after the original organ installation.
Sources: B&V opus list & files; JRS; extant organ.
[Received from James R. Stettner 2012-05-20.]
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