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Balcom and Vaughan Pipe Organs, Inc. Opus 795 (1973)

St. Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church
1704 NE 43rd Ave.
Portland, OR

Images

2008-12-15 - Balcom and Vaughan archive photo (Digital image by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1975-06-26 - Organ (Photograph from Balcom and Vaughan Scrapbook; submitted by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

2007-03-13 - Pipe display (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
2 manuals
26 stops
13 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2007-03-08 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Great and Pedal exposed on two cantilevered buffets on the right side of the chancel above the choir stalls. Swell enclosed behind. -Database Manager

2011-06-17 - Updated through information from Bob Spiers. -- Additions and renovations by Bond Organ Builders, 1997-2011. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from PortlandORgans.com (now inoperative) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

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Stoplist copied from the console April 30, 1990 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Portland, Oregon
St. Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church

Balcom & Vaughan Pipe Organs, Inc., Opus 795, 1973

GREAT
   8     Prinzipal                    61
   8     Rohr Flöte                   61
   8     Gedackt                (Sw)  --
   8     Spitz Gamba            (Sw)  --
   4     Oktave                       61
   4     Rohr Flöte                   12   Extension of 8' Rohr Flöte.
   2     Super Oktave                 61
   IV    Mixtur  1-1/3               244   Beginning comp: 19-22-26-29
   8     Trompette              (Sw)  --
   Great to Great 4'

SWELL (Enclosed)
   8     Gedackt                      61
   8     Spitz Gamba                  61
   8     Spitz Gamba Celeste    (tc)  49
   4     Flach Flöte                  61
   2-2/3 Nasat                        61
   2     Gedackt                      24   Extension of 8' Gedackt.
   1-1/3 Quint                        12   Extension of 2-2/3' Nasat.
   8     Trompette                    61
         blank
         Tremulant
   Swell to Swell 16'
   Swell Unison Off
   Swell to Swell 4'

PEDAL
   16    Subbass                      32
   16    Gedackt Bass           (Sw)  12   Extension of Sw. 8' Gedackt.
   8     Oktav Bass                   32
   8     Gedackt                (Sw)  --
   4     Choral Bass                  12   Extension of 8' Oktav Bass.
   2     Octavin                      12   Extension of 8' Oktav Bass.
   III   Mixtur  2-2/3                12   Beginning comp: 12-15-19
   16    Trompette              (Sw)  12   Extension of Sw. 8' Trompette.
   4     Trompette              (Sw)  --
         blank

COUPLERS
   Swell to Pedal                    8
   Great to Pedal                    8
   Swell to Great                 16,8,4

FINGER PISTONS
   General                         1 - 4
   Swell                           1 - 3
     Sw. to Ped.                   (rev)
   Great                           1 - 3
     Gt. to Ped.                   (rev)
   Pedal                           1 - 3
   Cancel

TOE STUDS
   General                         1 - 4
   Pedal                           1 - 3
   Gt. to Ped.                     (rev)

PEDAL MOVEMENTS
   Swell Expression               (bal.)
   Crescendo                      (bal.)

ACTION: Electro-Pneumatic unit (Kilgen-style)
VOICES: 13
STOPS: 26
RANKS: 16
PIPES: 1,009

NOTES
This organ is installed at the front on the right side of the chancel.
The unenclosed pipes of the Great and Pedal are exposed and cantilevered
on two chests over the choir stalls.

The Pedal III Mixtur 2 2/3' is entirely derived from the Pedal 8' Oktav
Bass unit of 68 pipes.

 [Received on line from James R. Stettner April 19, 2009.]

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