2008-12-15 - Sanctuary and facade; photo from church history (Digital image by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
2007-01-27 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ was installed in the spring of 1912 and was a gift of the Young People's Society. The cost was over $1,000.00. It was installed in an alcove on the front wall of the sanctuary in the right corner. The façade contained 23 gold-painted pipes which included notes 3-17 of the Great 8' Open Diapason. The building was lost to fire on February 15, 1949 when a workman's cutting torch ignited dust between the old wooden frame and the newer brick veneer. Only the organ and the altar painting survived the conflagration. The organ was removed by Balcom and Vaughan of Seattle, electrified, and enlarged to 17 ranks for the new edifice. -Database Manager
2018-04-30 - Information from Hillgreen, Lane & Co. opus list, compiled by Bynum Petty<br> Contract: October 1911<br> 73-note Swell chest<br> Tubular-pneumatic action<br> Electric blower<br> Price: $2,400 -Database Manager
Stoplist taken from the extant chests and pipes; and Balcom and Vaughan files Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Spokane, Washington
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Salem Church
HILLGREEN-LANE ORGAN CO., Opus 292, 1911 - Original Specifications
GREAT COUPLERS
8 Open Diapason 61 Swell to Pedal
8 Melodia 61 Great to Pedal
8 Dulciana 61
4 Flute d'Amour 61 Swell to Great
SWELL (Expressive) FINGER PISTONS
8 Open Diapason 61 Undocumented
8 Stopped Diapason 61
8 Oboe Gamba 49
8 Vox Celeste 49 FOOT LEVERS
8 Aeoline 61 Undocumented
4 Rohr Flute 61
8 Vox Humana 61
Tremolo PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Expression (bal.)
PEDAL
16 Bourdon 30
16 Lieblich Gedeckt 30
ACTION: T-P VOICES: 13 STOPS: 13 RANKS: 13 PIPES: 707
NOTES
This was the church's first pipes organ. Prior to this, music was furnished by a I-manual,
chapel-style reed organ built by the Moline Organ Co. of Moline, Illinois.
The Hillgreen-Lane was installed in the spring of 1912, and was a gift of the Young People's
Society. The cost was over $1,000.00. The organ was located on the front, right side of the
sanctuary in a shallow recess. The case front was of quarter-sawn oak, and the façade had 23
gold pipes which included notes 3-17 of the Great 8' Open Diapason. The keydesk was attached
and projecting. Pipes 1 & 2 of the Great 8' Open Diapason, pipes 1-9 of the Swell 8' Open
Diapason, and pipes 1-12 of the Swell 4' Rohr Flute were of stopped wood. The Great 8' Dul-
ciana and Swell 8' Aeoline each had six cannistered basses.
The building was lost to fire on February 15, 1949 when a workman's cutting torch ignited
dust between the old wooden frame church and its newer brick veneer. This was during the
construction of the Youth Center. The altar painting and the organ survived. Balcom and
Vaughan of Seattle was contracted to remove the organ from the burnt building and rebuild
it for the new edifice. As rebuilt it had a new III-manual console, four added new ranks
of pipes increasing the size to 17 ranks, 28 stops, and 1,001 pipes.
The above specification is not verified, and the exact nomenclature of stops and controls
is not known. The stoplist is reconstructed from the original, extant chests and pipes.
Sources: Fiftieth Anniversary booklet; B&V Opus list and files; extant, rebuilt organ
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