2008-12-15 - Chancel and console; Balcom and Vaughan archive photo (Digital image by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2007-05-07 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- This was the moving, reinstallation, and enlargement of the existing Hinners/Balcom and Vaughan from the old edifice. While the entire organ was in one common, front and center chamber, it still had ranks that were indigenous to only one division...so it was entirely a "unit" organ. The Great had an independent 8-4-2 principal chorus. The Pedal had a 16' Double Open of wood. And the Swell had an Oboe - all indigenous to those divisions. But the Stopped Flute, Salicional, Voix Celeste, and Dulciana were shared between divisions. Cost of this project was $2,568.00. Couplers were added later by Richard Warburton. 1993, the building ws sold to a Baptist congregation, and Columbia merged with Lakewood Community Church (originally, Brethren) to form Columbia-Lakewood Commmunity Church. That church already had a 2/7 Balcom and Vaughan. The Columbia organ was brought along and placed in storage...pending its possible combining with the Lakewood instrument. -Database Manager
Original document from James R. Stettner. Source: Stoplist copied from the console August 16, 1991; Verified and updated March 1994. 2019-03-02
Seattle, Washington
Columbia Congregational Church
HINNERS ORGAN CO., Opus 2420, 1928
Balcom and Vaughan, 1941 - Moving, Rebuild, Additions & Installation
Balcom and Vaughan, Opus 691, 1961 - Removal, Moving, Enlargement & Installation
GREAT (Expressive) SWELL (Expressive) PEDAL (Expressive)
8 Principal 16 Bass Flute 16 Open Diapason
8 Flute 8 Principal 16 Bourdon
8 Salicional 8 Flute 16 Gedeckt
8 Dulciana 8 Salicional 8 Principal
4 Octave 8 Voix Celeste 8 Flute
4 Flute 4 Flute 8 Cello
4 Salicet 4 Salicet 4 Choral Bass
4 Dulcet 2-2/3 Nazard 8 Hautbois
2-2/3 Octave Quint 2 Flautina
2 Fifteenth 1-3/5 Tierce
8 Hautbois 8 Hautbois
Tremolo
Great to Great 4' Chimes
STOP / RANK / PIPE ANALYSIS
16 Open Diapason (Ped) 30
16 Bourdon (Ped) 12 Extension of the 8' Flute.
16 Gedeckt (Ped) –- Same as the 16' Bourdon. 1-12 on soft wind.
16 Bass Flute (Sw) –- From the 8' Flute. Tenor C.
8 Principal (Gt/Sw/Ped) 61
8 Flute (Gt/Sw/Ped) 61
8 Salicional (Gt/Sw) 61
8 Cello (Ped) –- Same as the 8' Salicional.
8 Voix Celeste (Sw) 49 Tenor C. Added 1961.
8 Dulciana (Gt) 49 1-12 from 8' Salicional.
4 Octave (Gt) 61 Added 1961.
4 Choral Bass (Ped) –- From the 8' Principal.
4 Flute (Gt/Sw) 12 Extension of the 8' Flute.
4 Salicet (Gt/Sw) 12 Extension of the 8' Salicional.
4 Dulcet (Gt) 12 Extension of the 8' Dulciana.
2-2/3 Octave Quint (Gt) –- From the 8' Principal & 2' Fifteenth.
2-2/3 Nazard (Sw) 7 Extension of the 8' Flute.
2 Fifteenth (Gt) 61
2 Flautina (Gt/Sw) 5 Extension of the 8' Flute.
1-3/5 Tierce (Sw) –- From the 8' Flute unit. 57 notes.
8 Hautbois (Gt/Sw/Ped) 61
Tremolo (Sw) Affects the entire instrument.
Chimes (Sw) (18) Original Hinners. Compass: c1 – f2.
PIPE SUMMARY
Open Diapason Principal Flute Salicional Voix Cel.
30 pipes 61 pipes 97 pipes 73 pipes 49 pipes
Dulciana Octave Fifteenth Hautbois
61 pipes 61 pipes 61 pipes 61 pipes
COUPLERS FINGER PISTONS
Swell to Pedal 8 None
Great to Pedal 8,4
Swell to Great 4 TOE STUDS
Sw. to Ped. 8
Gr. to Ped. 8
PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Expression (bal.)
Crescendo (bal.)
ACTION: E-P unit VOICES: 9 STOPS: 31 RANKS: 9 PIPES: 566
(inc. chimes)
NOTES
This organ began life as a I-manual, 3-rank organ built for Home Undertaking in Seattle.
Balcom and Vaughan lists it as having been 1-4. But the Hinners opus list compiled by
Ed Boadway gives the size as 3-ranks.
It was rebuilt for Columbia Congregational by Balcom and Vaughan in 1941 and enlarged
with a new 8' Open Diapason and a new (tc) 8' Dulciana.
The exact nomenclature of stops and controls is not verified since the organ was removed
and stored in 1961, and re-installed in Columbia's new edifice later that year with an
enlarged, altered stoplist.
The Pedal 16' Open Diapason is the original wood Pedal 16' Double Open Diapason from
the W.W. Kimball Co. organ originally installed in Spokane's Clemmer Theatre in 1914,
and later moved to the [then] new Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist. The
opus number may have been 5789.
The Great 2-2/3' Octave Quint borrows its first 42 notes from the 8' Principal, and
the remaining 19 notes from the 2' Fifteenth.
The couplers and toe studs were added later at an undocumented time by Richard War-
burton.
In 1993, unable to support the church, Columbia Congregational voted to merge with
Lakewood Community Church. The building on S. Ferdinand was sold to the Breath of Life
Seventh-day Adventist congregation. In 1994, the pipe organ was removed by volunteers
from the combined congregations under the direction of former pastor Jim Brumbaugh and
consultant James R. Stettner. As of that time, the merged congregations were deciding
whether to expand Lakewood's present facility to build a new church. After that decision
is made, plans for synthesizing the Lakewood and Columbia pipe organs into one instru-
ment will be considered.
Sources: Balcom and Vaughan opus list and files
Columbia Lakewood Community Church
3902 S. Ferdinand
Seattle, WA. 98118 Documented: August 16, 1991
(206) 723-8685 Verified & updated: March, 1994
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