Better Pipe Organ Database

Guenther Organ Co. (1940)

Zion Lutheran Church
720 Jefferson St.
Oregon City, OR

Images

2018-12-06 - Main Windchest (Photograph by Lanny Hochhalter/Database Manager)

2018-12-06 - Chancel and Nave (Photograph by Lanny Hochhalter/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
2 manuals
20 stops
10 registers
2 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 (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2008-01-04 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

2008-01-07 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ was dedicated on March 10, 1940. Originally documented June 20, 1990. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the console June 20, 1990 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Oregon City, Oregon
Zion Lutheran Church (ELCA)

GUENTHER ORGAN CO., 1940 - Original Specifications


GREAT (Expressive)                           COUPLERS
   8'     Diapason                  61          Swell to Pedal                  8
   8'     Melodia                   61          Great to Pedal                  8
   8'     Gamba                     61
   8'     Dulciana                  61          Swell to Great               16,8,4
   4'     Flute               (Sw)  --
          Chimes  (Maas; tf – f42) (21)
                                             FINGER PISTONS
   Great to Great 16'                           General                       1 - 3
   Great to Great 4'                            Swell & Pedal                 1 - 3
                                                Great & Pedal                 1 - 3


SWELL (Expressive)                           TOE STUDS
   16'    Bourdon                   12          Gr. to Ped.                   (rev)
   8'     Diapason                  61          Sforzando                     (rev)
   8'     Stopped Flute             61
   8'     Viol d'Orchestre          61
   8'     Salicional                61       PEDAL MOVEMENTS
   8'     Vox Celeste         (tc)  49          Expression                   (bal.) 
   4'     Flute d'Amour             12          Crescendo                    (bal.)
   2-2/3' Nazard                     7
   2'     Flautina                   5
   8'     Oboe              (Syn.)  --
   8'     Vox Humana                61
 
                                             ACTION: E-P primary & unit
PEDAL (Expressive)
   16'    Bourdon             (Gt)  12       VOICES: 10       STOPS: 20; inc. chimes
   16'    Lieblich Gedeckt    (Sw)  --
   8'     Gedeckt             (Sw)  --       RANKS: 10        PIPES: 648


NOTES
The organ is installed in a chamber in the front, left corner of the room. The console
has always been on the left, but has been repositioned. The organ reportedly cost
$3,000.00. It was dedicated on March 10, 1940.  The Swell 8' Oboe is synthetic and made
from the 8' Viol d'Orchestre and the 2-2/3' Nazard.

Sources: Church history; JRS; extant organ

 [Received from James R. Stettner 2015-05-27.]