Trinity Lutheran Church / Clatsop Community College
1651 Lexington Avenue
Astoria, OR
Images
1990-07-11 - Console (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
1990-07-11 - Rebuilder's Nameplate (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
Unknown - Choir Pipework (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
1990-07-11 - Great Pipewor (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
1990-07-11 - Swell Pipework (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
1990-07-11 - Pedal Pipework (16' Lieblich Gedeckt) (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
1990-07-11 - Pedal Pipework -- 8' Traverse Flote (front) and 16' Bourdon (behind) (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
- 3 manuals
- 23 stops
- 23 registers
- 4 divisions
- Key action Type: Electrical
- Stop action Type: Electrical
- Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
- Manual compass: 61 notes
- Pedal compass: 32 notes
- Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
- Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
- Has combination thumb pistons
Notes
2007-03-19 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- This was an electrification with new drawknob console of an existing Estey which had been originally built in 1916 as Estey's Opus 1429 for the Portland, Oregon residence of Dr. John Sellwood. The Estey opus list later listed the organ as "broken-up," but it is completely intact and original minus its original console - which likely had a player. The Guenther console is prepared for additions: a 4' octave and 2' Fifteenth on the Great; a 16' - 8' - 4' - 2-2/3' - 2' Gedeckt unit on the Swell; n 8' Viol celeste and 2' Piccolo on the Choir; and two blank drawknobs on the Pedal. These were never added. In 1973, Trinity merged with Zion Lutheran to form Peace Lutheran at a new edifice. The Zion six-rank Wicks was moved and the Estey/Guenther remained behind. The chuch was acquired by Clatsop Community College who use the sanctuary as a drama auditorium, and the lower level as classrooms and offices. The organ has fallen into a state of disrepair and needs to be restored or rebuilt to make it playable. -Database Manager
2013-10-12 - Updated through online information from Patricia Warren. -- After many years of silence, the Estey Opus 1429 organ at the Clatsop Community College Performing Arts Center (PAC), 588 16th Street, Astoria OR, will gloriously sound again. An inaugural concert for the newly repaired instrument entitled "Saints and Sinners�? will be held Saturday, November 2 at 2pm.<br>Repair of the Estey Opus 1429 organ was made possible through donations from the Bloomfield Family Foundation, the John C. and Janet A. Nybakke Memorial Fund of the Lutheran Community Foundation, the Clatsop Community College Foundation, the North Coast Chorale and numerous individual donors. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Stoplsit copied from the console July 11, 1990; verifie and updated may 22, 1992 and February 29, 2000 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Astoria, Oregon
Trinity Lutheran Church / Clatsop Community College
ESTEY ORGAN CO., Opus 1429, 1916
Guenther Organ Co., 1936 - Moving, Electrification, Rebuild, & Re-installation
GREAT (Expressive w/Choir) SWELL (Expressive)
8' Diapason 61 16' Bourdon [prep] -- *
8' Gross Flute 61 blank
8' Gamba 61 8' Diapason 61
8' Gemshorn 61 8' Stopped Flute 61
4' Octave [prep] -- 8' Gedeckt [prep] -- *
4' Wald Flute 61 8' Salicional 61
2' Fifteenth [prep] -- 8' Vox Celeste (tc) 49
8' Trumpet 61 8' Viol d'Amour 61
Tremolo 4' Flute Traverse 61
Chimes 4' Flauto [prep] -- *
2-2/3' Nasard [prep] -- *
Great 16' 2' Flautina [prep] -- *
Unison Off 8' Cornopean 61
Great 4' 8' Oboe [labial] 61
8' Vox Humana 61
blank
CHOIR (Expressive w/Great) Tremolo
8' Melodia 61
8' Viol d'Orchestre 61 Swell 16'
8' Viol Celeste [prep] -- Unison Off
8' Dulciana 61 Swell 4'
4' Flute d'Amour 61
2' Piccolo [prep] --
8' Clarinet [labial] 61 PEDAL (Expressive)
Tremolo blank
Harp 16' Bourdon [in Gt] 30
16' Lieblich Gedeckt [in Sw] 30
Choir 16' 8' Traverse Flote [in Gt] 30
Unison Off blank
Choir 4'
COUPLERS FINGER PISTONS
Swell to Pedal 8,4 General 1 – 5
Great to Pedal 8 Swell 1 – 5
Choir to Pedal 8,4 Great 1 – 5
Choir 1 – 5
Swell to Great 16,8,4
Choir to Great 16,8,4
PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell to Choir 16,8,4 Swell Expression (bal.)
Gt/Ch Expression (bal.)
Crescendo (bal.)
FOOT LEVERS
General 1 - 5
ACTION: E-P primary to VOICES: 23 STOPS: 23 RANKS: 23 PIPES: 1,298
ventil chests
NOTES
This organ was originally built for the Sellwood [Portland], Oregon residence of Dr.
John Sellwood, and was one of five, 3-manual Estey pipe organs built for Portland. It
later appeared on the Estey Opus List as “broken up”. However, it was acquired by the
Guenther Organ Co. of Portland, Oregon, and was rebuilt with a new drawknob console for
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Astoria, Oregon. It was installed there in 1936.
In 1975, Trinity Lutheran merged with what had once been Zion Evangelical Lutheran
Church to form Peace Lutheran Church. Trinity's former edifice was purchased by Clatsop
Community College, and was renovated as a Performing Arts Center with the lower level
serving as offices, science labs, and practice rooms.
At the time of the building's purchase, the college entered into contract with Portland,
Oregon organ technician Michael Dillon to have the organ repaired, re-leathered, and
brought into top condition. This work was never completed. In more recent years, the
organ has been cared for by Mr. Leonard Vernon, Mr. Fred Efaw, and Mr. Michael Cole of
Astoria.
Unfortunately, the Fine Arts Department of the College dwindled substantially after the
acquisition and conversion of the church, and the organ has continued to decay into poor
condition – showing its age through multiple dead notes, ciphers, and dead stops.
The Swell division has console preparations for five stops in the form of a stopped flute
unit of 97 pipes from 16' Bourdon through 2' Flautina. Those stops are marked with an
asterisk (*) in the specification. The Choir has two prepared-for stops: the 8' Viol
Celeste and the 2' Piccolo. And the Great is prepared for a 4' Octave and a 2' Fifteenth.
All of the couplers, both intra-manual and inter-divisional, appear as drawknobs within
the divisions they affect.
The Great, Choir, and Pedal 16' Bourdon & 8' Traverse Flote [sic] are in a large chamber
on the left side of the chancel. The Swell and Pedal 16' Lieblich Gedeckt share the chamber
on the right side of the chancel. Both chambers have expression shutters facing across the
chancel and into the sanctuary.
The Swell 8' Vox Humana is located on its own chest inside a box which is elevated above
the main Swell chest.
Sources: Estey opus list; JRS; extant, rebuilt organ
[Received from James R. Stettner 2015-05-18.]
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