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Balcom and Vaughan Opus 467 (1949)

Lewis & Clark College: Copeland Chapel
0615 SW Palatine Hill Rd., MSC 18
Portland, OR

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


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Notes

2007-03-01 - Identified through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- Enlargement of the builder's existing 1945 organ. Later removed. Stored in another building on campus. Subsequent disposition unknown. -Database Manager

2010-12-08 - Updated through on-line information from Richard Ditewig. -Database Manager

2014-06-06 - Updated through online information from Richard Ditewig. -- This organ was installed in Copeland Chapel, a part of the Albany Quadrangle buildings. -Database Manager


Stoplist

Stoplist taken from Balcom and Vaughan files Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Portland, Oregon
Lewis & Clark College - Copeland Memorial Chapel

BALCOM and VAUGHAN, Opus 408, 1945 - 2-18
Balcom and Vaughan, Opus ___, 1948 - 2-10 "Added 2 ranks"
Balcom and Vaughan, Opus 467, 1949 - “Additions”


GREAT (Expressive)                           COUPLERS
   8     Open Diapason              73          Swell to Pedal                   8
   8     Melodia                    73          Great to Pedal                   8,4
   8     Dulciana                   73
   4     Octave                     73          Swell to Great                16,8,4
   2-2/3 Octave Quint               73
   8     Clarinet        [1948]     73
                                             FINGER PISTONS
   Great to Great 16'                           General                     C, 1 – 5
   Great Unison Off                             Swell                       C, 1 – 5
   Great to Great 4'                            Great                       C, 1 – 5
                                                Pedal                          1 – 3

SWELL (Expressive)
   8     Violin Diapason            73       PEDAL MOVEMENTS
   8     Stopped Diapason           73          Swell Expression              (bal.)
   8     Salicional                 73          Great Expression              (bal.)
   8     Voix Celeste               73          Crescendo                     (bal.)
   4     Flute Harmonic             73
   8     Cornopean       [1948]     73
   8     Oboe                       73
   8     Vox Humana                 73
         Tremolo
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   Swell to Swell 16'
   Swell Unison Off                          ACTION: E-P
   Swell to Swell 4'
                                             VOICES: 15

PEDAL (Expressive)                           STOPS: 18
   16    Violone              (Gt)  12
   16    Bourdon                    32       RANKS: 15
   16    Lieblich Gedeckt           --
   8     Flute                      12       PIPES: 1,054 +/-
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NOTES
This organ as built for Lewis and Clark College and was installed in the auditorium
in Evans Hall. The Swell and Great were divided in chambers on opposite sides of the
stage.

The preceding stoplist has been reconstructed from notes in the files at Balcom and
Vaughan. Pipe counts are partially guessed based on notes in the files. The exact
nomenclature of stops and controls since the organ was later removed.

The console was a new, Kimball console with Balcom and Vaughan switches. The pipework
was mostly new. Used, recycled ranks included the Pedal 16' Bourdon (Kimball), the
Swell 4' Harmonic Flute (Gottfried), and the Swell 8' Vox Humana (Gottfried). The 
Pedal 16' Violone is an extension of the Great 8' Open Diapason, and the pipework is
supposed to have come from the 1906 Hook & Hastings, opus 2218 (III-manuals, 39-reg-
isters) built for Pilgrim Congregational Church in Seattle. The Pedal 16' Lieblich
Gedeckt is the same as the Pedal 16' Bourdon, but on soft wind.

The Great 8' Clarinet and Swell 8' Cornopean were added in 1948.

Balcom and Vaughan proposed rebuilding and enlarging the instrument in 1967. It was
to have become a 3-manual instrument with a new drawknob console. The Great division
was to be exposed on the front wall of the auditorium, and the Swelland Choir were to
remain in the original chambers.

Sources: Balcom and Vaughan opus list and files; extant photograph

 [Received from James R. Stettner 2013-02-17.]

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