Better Pipe Organ Database

Gress-Miles Organ Co. (1965)

St. Stephen's Episcopal Parish
1432 SW 13th Ave.
Portland, OR

Images

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

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

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
2 manuals
11 stops
19 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: No Enclosed Divisions
Combination action: Computerized/Digital
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons

Notes

2007-03-08 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

2018-08-16 - Updated by Joe O\'Donnell, who maintains the organ.<br>\r\nA photograph of this instrument appears on page 36 of Joseph Edwin Blanton\'s 1965 book, \"The Revival of the Organ Case.\" This photograph shows that the organ was originally placed in the south transept of the church. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the console December 28, 1988 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Portland, Oregon
St. Stephen's Episcopal (Church of the Four Winds)

Gress-Miles, 1965 - Original Specifications

HAUPTWERK
   8     Principal           (Ped)  --
   8     Rohr Floete                58
   4     Octave                     58
   2     Spitz Floete               58
   III-V Mixture                   154   Beginning composition: 22-26-29
   8     Dulzian                    58

BRUSTWERK
   8     Gedeckt                    46   1-12 from HW 8' Rohr Floete.
   4     Spiel Floete               58
   2     Principal                  58
   1     Octave                     58
   II    Sesquialtera         (tg)  78   12-17.

PEDAL
   16    Untersatz                  12
   8     Principal                  32
   4     Octave                     12
   2     Super Octave               12
   1     Octavlein                  12
   16    Dulzian Bass         (HW)  12
   8     Dulzian              (HW)  --
   4     Dulcian              (HW)  --

COUPLERS
   Hauptwerk to Pedal
   Brustwerk to Pedal
   Brustwerk to Hauptwerk

FINGER PISTONS
   General                       1 - 5
   Cancel

TOE STUDS
   General                       1 - 5

PEDAL MOVEMENTS
   None

ACTION: Electro-Mechanical
VOICES: 11
STOPS: 19
RANKS: 16
PIPES: 776

NOTES
The organ is free-standing and encased at the front of the sanctuary
on the left side. The Brustwerk is immediately above the keydesk with
the Hauptwerk and Pedal above that. The first 25 pipes of the Pedal 8'
Principal are in the facade.

The HW 8' Principal is borrowed from the Pedal Principal unit. The HW
III-V Mixture is III-ranks for the first 12 notes; IV-ranks for the
next 12 notes; and V-ranks for the remaining 34 notes. It breaks at C
13, c 25, f# 43, and c 49.  The bottom 12 notes of the BW 8' Gedeckt
are shared with the HW 8' Rohr Floete.   The Pedal 16' Untersatz is a
stopped wood 12-pipe extension of the Pedal Principal unit.

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

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

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