2013-04-06 - Altered and relocated existing organ. Identified by James R. Stettner, based on personal knowledge of the organ. -- The building was originally built as Hope Lutheran Church, and it was into this congregation's edifice that the used Wurlitzer organ was installed by Balcom and Vaughan in 1944. The original home of the Wurlitzer is not presently known, though a likely candidate may be the Key Street Theatre in Tacoma. The Salicional and Flute are original, as are the windchests, console, and relay/switch stack. The Open Diapason rank is not original and is believed to have replaced an 8' Trumpet rank. Its first six pipes are of open wood, and are marked "Baritone." The metal pipes are not leather-lipped. The Dulciana replaced an 8' Vox Humana. This would have made the organ a 135B model. Two different Balcom and Vaughan opus lists give the size of the organ as 6-ranks. But no evidence was present to suggest that the organ was down-sized when moved to Hope Lutheran. -Database Manager
2013-07-30 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager
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