2008-12-15 - Console photo by Bill Bunch (Digital image by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2008-12-23 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- This was the transplanting with minimal changes by Balcom and Vaughan of the 1921 Kimball, Opus 6613 originally built for the [then] Paramount Theatre (later, Guild 45th). The organ had been a 2/7 and was enlarged to 2/9 by Kimball in 1924. The pipes were installed in a chamber on the left side of the rear gallery. The information here is included in the <i>Encylcopedia of the American Theatre Organ</i>, details were in the Balcom and Vaughan files, and I examined the extant, altered organ. -Database Manager
Stoplist copied from extant original chests and pipework Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Seattle, Washington
Church of St. John, RC
W.W. KIMBALL CO., Opus 6613, 1924
W.W. Kimball Co., Opus ____, 1926 - Added 2-ranks
Balcom and Provorse, 1930 - Electrification & Installation
GREAT (Expressive) COUPLERS - Undocumented
8' Open Diapason 61 Swell to Pedal ?
8' Melodia 61 Great to Pedal ?
8' Dulciana 61
Swell to Great ?
Intra-manual couplers: undocumented
FINGER PISTONS
SWELL (Expressive) None
8' Stopped Diapason 61
8' Salicional 61
8' Voix Celeste (1926) (tc) 49 TOE STUDS
8' Oboe 61 Undocumented
8' Vox Humana (1926) 61
Tremolo
PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Intra-manual couplers: undocumented Expression (bal.)
Crescendo (bal.)
PEDAL (Expressive *)
16' Bourdon 30
ACTION: E-P Ventil & Unit VOICES: 9 STOPS: 9 RANKS: 9 PIPES: 506
NOTES
This organ was originally built as a tubular-pneumatic 2-7 with ventil chests in 1924
for the original Paramount Theatre in Seattle's Wallingford neighborhood. It was en-
larged by 2-ranks two years later in 1926 by Kimball. The theatre was later renamed
the Guild 45th .
It was removed from the theatre, electrified, and re-installed at the Church of St.
John (RC) in Seattle's Greenwood neighborhood in 1930-31. The Balcom and Vaughan opus
list confirms the organ was Kimball, and confirms the date as 1930, but says simply,
“(ex-theatre) electrif.”
A photo of the organ by William J. Bunch of Balcom and Vaughan showing the console as
installed at St. John's reveals that the organ had straight stoprail and no combina-
tion action.
The stoplist is taken from the extant original 1924 and 1926 chests, and from remaining
original pipework in the organ as rebuilt in 1973 by Balcom and Vaughan. The Great 8'
Dulciana was actually a tapered rank marked, “M. Viol” [Muted Viol].
Sources: Kimball opus list; Balcom and Vaughan opus list; JRS; extant components
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