2007-10-26 - Identified by James R. Stettner through information from the Estey Opus List, published in The Boston Organ Club newsletter, 1973-1979. -Database Manager
2008-01-30 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ is installed in a ceiling-level chamber at the rear of the room. It was an entirely 8' organ: GT: 8,8,8; SW: 8,8,8,8 Ob, 8 VH; PED: 16/8, 16. The console was placed on the right side of the chancel at the front with the organist facing across the chancel (congregation to their left). The console was updated with Peterson solid state by Balcom and Vaughan in the 1990s, and three tonal changes were made - one an addition. -Database Manager
2011-03-31 - Updated through online information from Joe O'Donnell. -- Installation by Balcom & Provorse, according to inscription on chamber wall. The later tonal change to the Swell involved a substitution, not an addition: the Open Diapason was replaced by a 4' Flute. -Database Manager
Stoplist copied from Balcom and Vaughan files. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Yakima, Washington
St. Michael's Episcopal Church
ESTEY ORGAN CO., Opus 2988, 1931 - Original Specifications Reconstructed
GREAT (Expressive) COUPLERS
8 Open Diapason 61 Swell to Pedal ∘ 8
8 Melodia 61 Swell to Pedal 4
8 Dulciana 61 Great to Pedal ∘ 8
Great to Great 16' Swell to Great 16
Great Unison Off Swell to Great ∘ 8
Great to Great 4' Swell to Great 4
SWELL (Expressive)
8 Stopped Diapason 73 FINGER PISTONS
8 Salicional 73 Swell & Pedal 1 - 3
8 Voix Celeste (tc) 61 Great & Pedal 1 & 2
8 Oboe [labial] (tc) 61
8 Vox Humana 73
Tremolo
TOE STUDS
Swell to Swell 16' Gt. to Ped. (rev)
Swell Unison Off Sforzando (rev)
Swell to Swell 4'
PEDAL (Expressive) PEDAL MOVEMENTS
16 Violone 32 Gt/Sw Expression (bal.)
16 Bourdon 32 Crescendo (bal.)
8 Cello 12
ACTION: E-P primary VOICES: 10 STOPS: 11 RANKS: 10 PIPES: 600
& unit
NOTES
The organ is installed in a ceiling-level chamber at the rear of the church. The console
is located at the front of the church on the right side with the organist facing across
the chancel and the congregation to the left. This stoplist was found in the files of
Balcom and Vaughan. The exact nomenclatures of the original instrument are not known
since the console was altered and upgraded to solid state in 1994 by Balcom and Vaughan.
Spellings given are based on other extant and documented examples of the builder's work
from this period.
Sources: Estey opus list; Balcom and Vaughan files.
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