Better Pipe Organ Database

Balcom and Vaughan Pipe Organs, Inc. Opus 763 (1968)

Ballard First Lutheran Church
2006 NW 65th Street
Seattle, WA

Images

2007-05-17 - Console (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

2007-05-17 - Pipe display (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

2007-05-17 - Former Chancel division, relocated (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1969-05-17 - Chancel and chancel division (Photograph by William J. Bunch; digital image provided by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
2 manuals
20 stops
31 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 combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2007-05-15 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Cost $22,920.00 plus tax. A $1,500.00 allowance was given on the old 2/8 Kimball. Great and Pedal exposed on either side of front windows. Swell in chamber to the right. Console originally in gallery to the left - same level as exposed pipes. Gallery later removed and console placed in same basic position on the chancel floor. Organ has a floating 2-rank division originally in the chancel balcony. It was moved to the front right corner of the rear gallery when the balcony was removed. Console converted to solid state in 199_ by the builders as their SC ___. Nomenclatures changed slightly, but no tonal changes. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: From THE DIAPASON September 1968

        Seattle, Washington
        Ballard First Lutheran Church

        Balcom & Vaughan   Op. 763   1968   2/25
        _________________________________________________

        GREAT                        SWELL
     8' Principal        61       8' Rohrflöte         68
     8' Bordun           61       8' Viola             68
     8' Erzähler         61       8' Viola Celeste     56
     4' Octave           61       4' Italian Principal 68
     4' Bordun           12       4' Nachthorn         68
     2' Flachflöte       61   2 2/3' Nasat             61
III-IV  Fourniture      232       2' Blockflöte        61
     8' Fagott           SW   1 1/3' Larigot           12
        Chimes                  III  Plein Jeu        183
                                 16' Basson            12
        PEDAL                     8' Fagott            68
    16' Subbass          32          Tremulant
    16' Rohrbordun       SW
     8' Harfenprinzipal  32          CHORAL
     8' Rohrflöte        SW       8' Gedacktflöte      61
     8' Viola            SW       4' Spitzprinzipal    61
     4' Korelbass        12
     4' Bordun           GT
   III  Rauschepfeife    32
    16' Basson           SW
     4' Fagott           SW

        [Received from Jeff Scofield September 6, 2021]