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Balcom and Vaughan

St. John's Episcopal Church: Sanctuary; rear gallery
4210 SW Hanford St.
Seattle, WA

Images

1992-04-22 - Console from right side (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1992-04-22 - Console from left side (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1992-04-22 - Great pipes (l - r): 8' Open Diapason, 8' Melodia, 4' Octave, 8' Dulciana (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1992-04-22 - Pedal 16'/8' Open Diapason (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1992-04-22 - Swell pipes (l - r): 8' Salicional, 8' Voix Celeste, 8' Open Diapason (transposed to 4' pitch); 8' Cornopean (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1992-04-22 - Swell pipes (l - r): 8' Cornopean, 8' Oboe (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1992-04-22 - Swell 16' Bourdon unit and 8' Open Diapason (transposed to 4' pitch) (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
2 manuals
12 stops
18 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 coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2007-04-30 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- This was the reinstallation of the existing Estey from the former edifice. It was installed in side-by-side chambers in the rear gallery: Swell and Pedal 16/8 Bourdon unit on the left; Great and Pedal 16/8 Diapason unit on the right. At some point since its original installation, the Swell 8' Open Diapason has been transposed to 4' pitch. The bottom 12 pipes are extant in storage in the blower room to the left of the Swell chamber. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist taken from the console April 27, 1992

Seattle, Washington
St. John's Episcopal Church

ESTEY ORGAN CO., Opus 3163, 1948 - Original Specifications
Balcom and Vaughan, 19__ - Moving, Reinstallation, Tonal Change


GREAT (Expressive – Right)                   COUPLERS
8     Diapason                   73          Swell to Pedal             8,4
8     Melodia                    73          Great to Pedal             8,4
8     Dulciana                   73
4     Octave                     73          Swell to Great          16,8,4
      Tremolo

Great to Great 16                            FINGER PISTONS
Great Unison Off                             General                  1 - 3
Great to Great 4                             Swell & Pedal            1 - 3
                                             Great & Pedal            1 - 3

SWELL (Expressive - Left)
8     Gedeckt                    61 ▫        TOE STUDS
8     Salicional                 73          Gt. to Ped.              (rev)
8     Voix Celeste         (tc)  61          Sforzando                (rev)
4     Diapason                   61
4     Flute d'Amour              12 ▫
2 2/3 Nasard                      7 ▫        PEDAL MOVEMENTS
2     Piccolo                     5 ▫        Swell Expression        (bal.)
8     Cornopean                  73          Great Expression        (bal.)
8     Oboe                       73          Crescendo               (bal.)
      Tremolo

Swell to Swell 16
Swell Unison Off
Swell to Swell 4                             ACTION: E-P Ventil & Unit

                                             VOICES: 12
PEDAL (Expressive L & R)
16    Diapason                   32 ♦        STOPS: 18
16    Bourdon                    32 ☼
16    Lieblich Gedeckt     (Sw)  –- ▫        RANKS: 12
8     Octave                     12 ♦
8     Flute                      12 ☼        PIPES: 806


NOTES
The church's first pipe organ was a used, 1-manual, 5-rank Wurlitzer piano
pit organ with six ranks and 337 pipes on an 88-key piano. The pedals were
only notes. The pit organ also had chimes.

The Estey organ was originally installed for the builder by Balcom and Vaughan,
who also removed the organ and e-installed it in the new [present] church. As
originally installed the organ was in chambers on either side of the crossing
in front of the church, and had a large façade of gold dummy pipes in front
of each chamber enclosure.

The inaugural recital was performed by University of Washington organ pro-
fessor Walter A. Eichinger on Sunday, March 20, 1949 at 5:00 p.m.

The organ has many Haskelled basses: the Pedal 16'/8' Diapason, 1-24; the
Great 8' Diapason, 1-12; the Great 8' Melodia, 1-11; the Great 8' Dulciana,
1-12; the Swell 8' Diapason, 1-12, and the Swell 8' Salicional, 1-12.

The Pedal 16' Lieblich Gedeckt is the same as the 16' Bourdon, but on soft
wind.

The Swell 8' Diapason has been transposed to 4' pitch. It is not known who
did this or when.


Sources: Estey opus list; Balcom and Vaughan opus list; JRS; extant moved organ


St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church
4210 SW Hanford St.
Seattle, WA. 98116
(206) 937-4545                               Documented: April 27, 1992

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