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W. W. Kimball Co. (1905 ca.)

Grace Episcopal Church: Sanctuary; front
1545 Franklin Street
Astoria, OR

Images

1950-11-29 - Sanctuary interior with organ at front. (Photograph from an archival source: Church archives; digital image by Lanny Hochhalter, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

ca. 1905 - Sanctuary interior with organ at front, right (Photograph from an archival source: Parish Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

ca. 1900 - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Parish Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

ca. 1910 - Church exterior; facade (Photograph from an archival source: Parish Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
7 stops
7 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: None

Notes

2007-03-19 - Identified through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ was free-standing and encased at the front of the room on the right side. The 3-sectional facade contained 23 stencilled and gold-leafed pipes arranged: 5-13-5. The drawknobs were in beveled jambs and had oblique faces. Drawknob couplers were over the Swell keys. The organ remained hand-pumped until an electric blower was added ca. 1932. -Database Manager

2007-12-01 - On line update from Lanny Hochhalter: The church had a 25 member "renowned" choir of men and boys from the late 1880's until the early 1910's. Carl Denton, Organist of Trinity Church, Portland (OR) gave the dedication recital on the 1905 Kimball, including "The Lost Chord" and "The Angel's Serenade." The Kimball was hand-pumped until 1931 when an electric blower was installed. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist copied from Balcom and Vaughan files and extant original pipes

Astoria, Oregon
Grace Episcopal Church

W. W. Kimball Co., ca. 1905


    GREAT                                   COUPLERS
8'  Open Diapason           61          Swell to Pedal             [8]
8'  Concert Flute           61          Great to Pedal             [8]
8'  Dulciana                61
                                        Swell to Great             [8]
    SWELL (Expressive)                  Swell to Great 8ves        [4]
8'  Stopped Diapason        61
8'  Gamba                   61
8'  Oboe              (tc)  49              FOOT LEVERS
    Sw. Tremolo                         Undocumented

    PEDAL
16' Bourdon                 30              PEDAL MOVEMENTS
                                        Swell Expression        (bal.)


ACTION: T-P      VOICES: 7      STOPS: 7      RANKS: 7      PIPES: 384


NOTES
The organ was free-sanding and encased at the front of the room on the
right side. The keydesk was attached and projecting. The 3-sectional
facade contained 23 stenciled and gold-leafed pipes arranged: 5-13-5.
The stops were in down-ward angled stop jambs with oblique faces, and
the couplers were in the nameboard over the Swell manual. The organ
remained hand-pumped until an electric blower was added ca. 1932.

The exact nomenclature of stops and controls is not verifiable. The
above specification was taken from wriing on the extant pipework, and
from other documented and extant example of the builder's work from
this period.

The organ was later electrified, rebuilt, and enlarged by Balcom and
Vaughan of Seattle, Washington in 1966 as their Opus 751.

Sources: Balcom and Vaughan files; JRS; extant original pipework

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