2007-05-14 - Organ (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
2007-02-20 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- This is a Chorophone. The organ was originally built for St. Johannes Evangelical Lutheran in Napa, California. The contract was signed on April 10, 1924. The organ was to be installed and ready for use by October 1, 1924. Cost was $3,250.00. Console has the Austin Patented divisional cancellor bars over each division of stoptablets. The organ was relocated to undocumented private homes twice in unknown locations before it was acquired by Art Thompson of San Jose, California. He rebuilt it at his own expense and gave it to the Multnomah School of Bible in Portland, Oregon, where he installed it. The only tonal change was to rewire the Great 2' Flautina from the Diapason/Octave unit as a 2' Fifteenth - only borrowing the 2' octave from the Flautina. -Database Manager
2007-02-27 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager
Stoplist copied from the console March 5, 1990 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Portland, Oregon
Multnomah School of Bible
AUSTIN ORGAN COMPANY, Opus 1257, 1924 - “Chorophone”
Art Thompson, ca. 1988 - “Restoration, Moving, Re-Installation, Tonal Change”
GREAT (Expressive) SWELL (Expressive) PEDAL (Expressive)
16 Bourdon 16 Contra Dolce 16 Resultant
8 Open Diapason 8 Gedeckt 16 Bourdon
8 Gedeckt 8 Viole 8 Open Diapason
8 Viole 8 Dulciana 8 Gedeckt
8 Dulciana 4 Flute d'Amour 8 Viole
4 Octave 4 Violin 8 Dulciana
4 Flute d'Amour 4 Dulcet 4 Octave
4 Violin 2-2/3 Quintette 4 Flute
4 Dulcet 2 Flautino
2 Flautino Tremolo
STOP / RANK / PIPE ANALYSIS
16 Resultant (Ped) --
16 Bourdon (Gt/Ped) 12 Extension of the 8' Gedeckt.
16 Contra Dolce (Sw) -- Tenor C. From the 8' Dulciana.
8 Open Diapason (Gt/Ped) 61 Pipes 1-27 en façade. Unexpressive.
8 Gedeckt (Gt/Sw/Ped) 61
8 Viole (Gt/Sw/Ped) 61
8 Dulciana (Gt/Sw/Ped) 61
4 Octave (Gt/Ped) 12 Extension of the 8' Open Diapason.
4 Flute d'Amour (Gt/Sw) 12 Extension of the 8' Gedeckt.
4 Flute (Ped) -- Same as the 4'Flute d'Amour.
4 Violin (Gt/Sw) 12 Extension of the 8' Viole.
4 Dulcet (Gt/Sw) 12 Extension of the 8' Dulciana.
2-2/3 Quintette (Sw) -- Derived from the 8' Dulciana unit.
Compass: 54 notes, CC - f3.
2 Flautino (Sw) 12 Extension of the 8' Gedeckt.
2 Flautino (Gt) -- Re-wired to be from the Open Diapason
unit with only the top 8ve borrowed
from the Swell 2' Flautino.
Tremolo (Sw) Affects the entire instrument.
PIPE SUMMARY
Open Diapason Gedeckt Viole Dulciana
73 pipes 97 pipes 73 pipes 73 pipes
FINGER PISTONS PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell & Pedal 1 – 4 Expression (bal.)
Great & Pedal 1 – 4 Crescendo (bal.)
ACTION: E-P unit VOICES: 4 STOPS: 27 RANKS: 4 PIPES: 316
NOTES
This organ was originally built for St. Johannes Evangelical Lutheran Church in Napa, CA.,
and cost $3,250.00. The organ was later owned by two private parties in undisclosed loca-
tions in California before being purchased by organ builder Art Thompson of San Jose, CA.
Mr. Thompson rebuilt the organ at his own expense and then gave it to the Multnomah School
of Bible in Portland, Oregon where he also installed it.
The organ is a stock model Austin “Chorophone”. It is free-standing and encased with a
3-sectional facade arranged: 5-17-5, which is the first 27 pipes of the 8' Open Diapason,
which is the only non-expressive rank.
After the organ was installed in Portland, Mr. Thompson rewired the Great 2' Flautino to
play notes 1-49 from the unenclosed Open Diapason unit, with only its top12 notes from the
expressive Gedeckt rank.
Sources: Austin Opus List; Art Thompson; original church documents; extant organ.
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