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Guenther Organ Co. (1945)

First Methodist Church
Franklin Avenue
Astoria, OR

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
2 manuals
13 stops
16 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

Notes

2007-03-19 - Identified through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- This was the electrification with a new console of the existing 1917 Casavant Brothers tubular-pneumatic organ. No tonal changes were made. The new console has a 32-note pedalboard, but the Pedal registers only play for their original 30 notes. The couplers work on all 32 notes. Original chest compasses were 65 notes. And this, too, was retained. -Database Manager

2019-02-28 - Updated by Julien Girard, naming this as the source of information: Histoire de Casavant Frères, Jeanne d\'Aigle. <br> <br> -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist copied from the console July 11, 1990

Astoria, Oregon
First Methodist Church

CASAVANT BROTHERS, Opus 44, 1917
Guenther Organ Co., 1945 - “Electrification & Rebuild”


    GREAT                                    COUPLERS
8'  Diapason                  65          Swell to Pedal               8
8'  Melodia                   65          Great to Pedal               8
8'  Dulciana                  65
4'  Octave                    65          Swell to Great            16,8,4
    Chimes (Maas; A22 – f42) (21)
3   blank stoptablets
                                             FINGER PISTONS
Great to Great 16'                        General                    1 - 3
Unison [Off]                              Swell                      1 – 4
Great to Great 4'                         Great                      1 – 5
                                          Set

    SWELL (Expressive)
16' Bourdon                   65             TOE STUDS
8'  Diapason                  65          None
8'  Stopped Flute             65
8'  Viola d'Gamba             65
8'  Vox Celeste         (tc)  57             PEDAL MOVEMENTS
4'  Flute d'Amour             65          Swell Expression          (bal.)
8'  Oboe                      65          Crescendo                 (bal.)
8'  Vox Humana                65
    Tremolo                        
3   blank stoptablets

Swell to Swell 16'
Unison [Off]                              ACTION: E-P 
Swell to Swell 4'
                                          VOICES: 13

                                          STOPS: 16; inc. chimes
PEDAL
16' Bourdon                   32          RANKS: 13
16' Lieblich Gedeckt    (Sw)  –-
8'  Flute                     12          PIPES: 816

1   blank stoptablet


NOTES
It is believed that the organ was originally free-standing. It had two
manuals, 13-ranks, and employed tubular-pneumatic key and stop action.

The Guenther Organ Co. consisted of electrifying the original chests,
and providing a new console with a slightly enlarged combination action,
and almost full inter- and intra-divisional couplers (no Man. to Ped.
4' couplers). A former Gt. to Ped. reversible function was omitted.

Sources: Balcom & Vaughan files; JRS; extant organ

First Methodist Church
Franklin Avenue
Astoria, Oregon

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