Better Pipe Organ Database

Geo. S. Hutchings (& Co.) Opus 343 (1894)

First Baptist Church
11th Avenue
Portland, OR

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Images

1988-12-28 - Chancel and Pipe Facade (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
3 manuals
38 stops
34 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2007-02-24 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The façade is located at the front of this Akron-plan sanctuary. The ornately stenciled, 5-sectional façade contains 45 pipes arranged: 10-7-11-7-10 as 3 flats divided by two towers. These are pipes of the Great 16' Open Diapason. The organ was replaced in 1958 by Austin Op. 2295. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist Source: from <i>The Organ</i>, April 1894 Date not recorded

Portland, Oregon
First Baptist Church

Geo. S. Hutchings   Opus 1894   1894         4 manuals, 38 stops, 45 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN                         SWELL ORGAN
     16' Open Diapason        61         16' Bourdon (Treb & Bass) 61
      8' Open Diapason        61          8' Open Diapason         61
      8' Gemshorn             61          8' Salicional            61
      8' Viola da Gamba       61          8' Æoline                61
      8' Doppel Flöte         61          8' Stopped Diapason      61
      4' Flute Harmonique     61          8' Quintadena            61
      4' Octave               61          4' Fugara                61
  2 2/3' Octave Quinte        61          4' Flauto Traverso       61
      2' Super Octave         61          2' Flautino              61
         Mixture IV          244             Dolce Cornet V       305
      8' Trumpet              61          8' Cornopean             61
                                          8' Oboe                  61
         CHOIR ORGAN                      8' Vox Humana            61
     16' Lieblich Gedeckt     61
      8' Geigen Principal     61             PEDAL ORGAN
      8' Melodia              61         16' Open Diapason         30
      8' Dolcissimo           61         16' Violone               30
      4' Flute d'Amour        61         16' Bourdon               30
      2' Piccolo Harmonique   61     10 2/3' Quinte                30
      8' Clarinet             61          8' Octave                30
                                          8' Violoncello           30
                                          8' Gedeckt               30

         PEDAL MOVEMENTS, ETC.
         Full Organ (with all Couplers)
         F, MF, and P Combinations - Great
         F, MF, and P Combinations - Swell
         F, MF, and P Combinations - Choir
         Great to Pedal (reversible)
         Grand Crescendo
         Tremolo (Swell)
         All couplers
         Octave Coupler (Sw. to Gt.)


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2017-10-14]