2008-12-15 - Photo from church history (Digital image by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2006-10-18 - Replaced by 1955 Aeolian-Skinner; relocated to Trinity United Methodist in Seattle, Washington, electrified and enlarged (by six ranks) as Balcom & Vaughan Op. 575. -Database Manager
2007-11-11 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Pipe fence facade at the front, center of the church. Suggested 3-sectional facade with 47 gold-painted pipes arranged: 17-(1-11-1)-17. This was a quite large and complete 27-rank organ with 16-8-8-8-8-4-4-3-2-III-8 on the Great; 16 (t/b)-8-8-8-8-8-4-4-2-8-8 (t/b) on the Swell; and 16-16-8 on the Pedal. The H&H was removed by Balcom and Vaughan between Jan. 5-10, 1953. It was, indeed, rebuilt by Balcom and Vaughan for Trinity Methodist in the Ballard section of Seattle in 1954 with installation in 1954. It was enlarged to 3-manuals on new pitman chests. The organ was replaced by a 3-man. Aeolian Skinner, contracted in 1952 and installed in 1953 - not 1955. -Database Manager
2022-03-08 - From G Street Tabernacle?? According to Nye notebooks. Perhaps earlier name of this location. "Mechanical action. $5,000. Broken up 1953. Some pipework labeled A. Schopp. Manuals 58 notes, pedal 27 notes." -- *2008 OHS Atlas* -Paul R. Marchesano
Balcom and Vaughan files Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Tacoma, Washington
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Hook & Hastings, Opus 1561, 1893 - Original Specifications
GREAT COUPLERS (Drawknob)
16 ft. Open Diapason 58 Swell to Pedal
8 ft. Open Diapason 58 Great to Pedal
8 ft. Salicional 58
8 ft. Melodia 58
8 ft. Dulciana 58 FOOT LEVERS (Unk. If labeled)
4 ft. Octave 58 Swell Piano -
4 ft. Flute d'Amour 58
3 ft. Twelfth 58 Swell Forte -
2 ft. Fifteenth 58
3 Rks. Mixture [19-22-26] 174 Gr. to Ped. - reversible
8 ft. Trumpet 58
Great Piano -
SWELL (Expressive) Great Forte -
16 ft. Bourdon (tc) 46
16 ft. Bourdon Bass 12
8 ft. Open Diapason 58 PEDAL MOVEMENTS
8 ft. Stopped Diapason 58 Swell Expression (bal.)
8 ft. Quintadena 58
8 ft. Viola 58
8 ft. Aeoline 58
4 ft. Flauto Traverso [wood] 58
4 ft. Violina 58
2 ft. Flautino 58
8 ft. Cornopean 58
8 ft. Oboe (tc) 46 ACTION: Mechanical key & stop
8 ft. Bassoon 12
Tremolo VOICES: 25
STOPS: 27
PEDAL
16 ft. Open Diapason [wood] 27 RANKS: 27
16 ft. Bourdon 27
8 ft. Violoncello 27 PIPES: 1,473
NOTES
This organ was originally built for this location. It was installed at the
front of the sanctuary. The Great 16' and 8' Open Diapasons were partially
in the facade which contained 47 pipes.
The organ was replaced in 1953 by a new 3-manual Aeolian-Skinner, and the
Hook & Hastings is rumored to have been slated for the dump. Balcom and
Vaughan purchased the instrument and removed it between January 5th and
10th, 1953. Some “superfluous” zinc pipes were sold to a Tacoma junk
dealer for scrap value, and this may have included the bottom octave of
the 16' Open Diapason which never made it to the new home. Another Tacoma
drayage firm was to remove all refuse not needed or usable by the church,
and use it as fireplace fuel. [This likely included the slider chests].
The organ was rebuilt on new OSI ventil chests, electrified, enlarged to
3-manuals, and installed at Trinity United Methodist Church in the Ballard
section of Seattle. The Pedal 16' Open Diapason was retained on its
original diatonically-divided chests with a new E-P primary action and
pallet pull-downs.
Sources: Balcom and Vaughan files; extant pipework
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