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Balcom and Vaughan Pipe Organs, Inc. Opus 833 (1976)

Bethel Lutheran Church
17418 8th Ave. NE
Shoreline, WA

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)


Consoles

Main


Notes

2007-06-13 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Despite sharing one common chamber, there are registers uniquely indigenous to each division. -Database Manager

2009-09-02 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

2016-04-14 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. <br>The congregation decided to sell the building and reportedly moved-out by mid-February, 2016. The edifice has been purchased by Seattle-s Buddha Jewel Monastery. The organ was for sale. Its current status is not known. -Database Manager

2018-02-23 - Updated by Sean Haley, who maintains the organ.<br> The organ was removed by Marceau Pipe Organs, Inc. of Seattle in the Summer of 2016 and is available for purchase. -Database Manager


Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the console October 23, 1992 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Shoreline, Washington
Bethel Lutheran Church of Shoreline


BALCOM and VAUGHAN PIPE ORGANS, Inc., Opus 833, 1976 - Original Specifications


GREAT (Expressive)                           COUPLERS
   8     Prinzipal                  61          Swell to Pedal                  8
   8     Rohr Flöte           (Sw)  –-          Great to Pedal                  8
   8     Spitz Gamba          (Sw)  –-
   4     Oktave                     61          Swell to Great               16,8,4
   4     Rohr Flöte           (Sw)  –-
   III   Mixtur  1⅓'               183
   8     Hautbois             (Sw)  –-       FINGER PISTONS
         blank                                  General                       1 - 8
                                                Swell                         1 - 8
   Great to Great 4'                              Sw. to Ped.                 (rev)
                                                Great                         1 - 8
                                                  Gt. to Ped.                 (rev)
SWELL (Expressive)                              Pedal                         1 - 4
   8     Rohr Flöte                 61          Set
   8     Spitz Gamba                61          Cancel
   8     Spitz Gamba Celeste  (tc)  49
   4     Oktave               (Gt)  –-
   4     Rohr Flöte                 12       TOE STUDS
   2     Rohr Flöte                 12          General                       1 - 8
   1-1/3 Nasat                       7          Pedal                         1 - 4
   8     Hautbois                   61          Gt. to Ped.                   (rev)
         Tremulant
         blank
                                             PEDAL MOVEMENTS
   Swell to Swell 16'                           Expression                   (bal.)
   Swell to Swell 4'                            Crescendo                    (bal.)


PEDAL (Expressive)
   16    Sub Bass                   32       ACTION: E-P unit
   16    Rohr Bass        (Ped/Sw)  –-
   8     Oktave                     32       VOICES: 9
   8     Rohr Flöte           (Sw)  –-
   8     Spitz Gamba          (Sw)  –-       STOPS: 24
   4     Choral Bass                12
   2     Octavin                    12       RANKS: 11
   16    Basson               (Sw)  12
   4     Hautbois             (Sw)  –-       PIPES: 668
         blank


NOTES
The organ is installed in side-by-side formation in a single, common chamber
at the front of the room. The console was at the back, right side of the room
with the organist facing forward.

The congregation dwindled and could not sustain the building. The decision was
made to sell, and it was purchased by a Buddhist monastery. The Lutheran con-
gregation moved out in February 2016, but the organ had not yet been sold and
is still present in the building.

Sources: B&V Opus List; JRS; extant organ



 [Received from James R. Stettner 2016-04-06.]

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