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Balcom and Vaughan Pipe Organs, Inc. Opus 872 (1987)

Magnolia Lutheran Church
2414 31st Avenue W.
Seattle, WA

Images

1991-12-05 - Console (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1991-12-05 - Chancel and Organ Case (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1991-12-05 - Sanctuary Interior, Chancel, and Organ Case (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
2 manuals
22 stops
26 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

2007-05-16 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- In a mahogany case at the front. Original Möller kept as Pedal division. Original Möller console retained. Swell prepared for a III Plein Jeu and a tenor C 8' Voix Celeste. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist from James R. Stettner Source: Stoplist copied from the console December 5, 1991 Date not recorded

Seattle, Washington
Magnolia Lutheran Church

BALCOM and VAUGHAN PIPE ORGANS, Inc., Opus 872, 1987 - Original Specifications


<u>GREAT</u>                                        <u>COUPLERS</u>
16     Principal  (façade) (mc)  37          Swell to Pedal                    8
16     Quintaton                 61          Great to Pedal                    8
8      Principal  (façade)       61
8      Flute a Cheminee          61          Swell to Great                 16,8
4      Octave     (façade)       61
4      Gemshorn                  61
2-2/3  Quinte *                  61          <u>FINGER PISTONS</u>
2      Octave                    61          General                      1 - 10
1-3/5  Tierce                    61          Sw to Ped                     (rev)
III-IV Fourniture [19-22-26-29] 232          Gr to Ped                     (rev)
8      Trompette                 61          Set
                                             Can

<u>SWELL (Expressive)</u>
8      Gambe *                   61          <u>TOE STUDS</u>
       blank                     61          General                      1 - 10
8      Bourdon                   61          Gr. to Ped.                   (rev)
4      Principal                 61
4      Flute a Fuseau            61
2      Octavin                   61          <u>PEDAL MOVEMENTS</u>
1-1/3  Larigot                   61          Swell Expression             (bal.)
       blank                                 Crescendo                    (bal.)
8      Basson-Hautbois           61
       Tremulant
                                             <u>MEMORY</u>
Swell 16                                     Rotary switch with 5-levels


<u>PEDAL</u>                                        <u>ACTION</u>: E-P pallets on slider chests
16     Soubasse *                32                  E-P unit (Pedal)
16     Quintaton           (Gt)  –-
8      Principal *               32          <u>VOICES</u>: 22    (24 w/preps)
8      Bourdon *                 12
4      Octave *                  32          <u>STOPS</u>: 26     (28 w/preps)
16     Trompette *               32
8      Trompette *               12          <u>RANKS</u>: 25     (29 w/preps)
4      Clairon *                 12
                                             <u>PIPES</u>: 1,409  (1,648 w/preps)


<u>NOTES</u>
The church's previous instrument was a II-manual, 4-rank M.P. Möller pipe organ built
in 1957 as that firm's opus 9134. Stops marked with an asterisk (*) in the specification
indicate pipework from the Möller which was incorporated into the tonal scheme of the
present Balcom and Vaughan instrument. The Möller console was also retained.

The Great 16' Principal has notes 1 (c 37) thru 25 (c 49) in the façade. The Great 8'
Principal has its first 27 pipes in the façade, and the 4' Octave has its first 12 pipes
in the façade. All remaining façade pipes are dummies.

The two blank rocker tablets in the Swell are full preparations for an 8' Celeste and
a III Plein Jeu (22-26-29).

<u>Sources</u>: Balcom and Vaughan opus list and files; JRS; extant organ


Magnolia Lutheran Church
2414 31st Avenue W.
Seattle, WA. 98199
(206) 284-0155                               Documented: December 5, 1991

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