First Baptist Church / Urban Grace: Sanctuary; front
902 Market Street
Tacoma, WA
Images
May 6 2023 - Builder's nameplate (Photograph by Elliot Sander /Elliot Sander)
May 6 2023 - Auditorium stage, with console on right hand side, 9’ Knabe grand piano on stage (Photograph by Elliot Sander/Elliot Sander)
May 6 2023 - Auditorium (Photograph by Elliot Sander/Elliot Sander)
May 6 2023 - Console, looking out from above, looking out over auditorium (Photograph by Elliot Sander/Elliot Sander)
May 6 2023 - Console, looking out over auditorium (Photograph by Elliot Sander/Elliot Sandee)
May 6th 2023 - Console Front (Photograph by Elliot Sander/Elliot Sander)
May 6 2024 - Console (Photograph by Elliot Sander/Elliot Sander)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Movable Console
- 3 manuals
- 41 stops
- 52 registers
- 5 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 (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Has crescendo
- Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
- Unknown
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has combination toe pistons
- Has coupler thumb pistons
- Has tutti thumb pistons
Notes
2016-06-23 - This entry describes alterations to an existing organ.
Identified by James R. Stettner, based on personal knowledge of the organ.
<br>The original luminous console had been previously replaced by Olympic Organ Builders. Homer Johnson replaced the original Estey Choir 8' Clarinet with an 8' Trumpet; and the Swell 8' Salicional with a 4' Principal. No other changes are known to have taken place. -Database Manager
2019-05-23 - Updated by Les Sinclair, who has heard or played the organ. <br>One alteration was made. The choir Clarinet was replaced with a Trumpet. Last I knew, the Clarinet pipes were stored in the chamber. The original console was replaced. <br> -Database Manager
2023-05-06 - The instrument is not used often and the combination action functions, but not well. There is an antiphonal Echo division in the back of the auditorium above the balcony, accessed through a tone chute similar to the one up front. -Elliot Sander
Stoplist
Source: Stoplist copied from the console May 26, 1992
Tacoma, Washington
First Baptist Church / Urban Grace
ESTEY ORGAN CO., Opus 2281, 1925 - Luminous Console
Olympic Organ Builders, 19__ - Replacement Console
Homer R. Johnson, 1976 - Minor Tonal Changes
GREAT (Expressive)
16' Open Diapason 61 ☼
8' Open Diapason 61
8' Second Diapason 61
8' Gamba 61
8' Doppel Floete 61
8' Stopped Flute 61
8' Gemshorn 61
4' Octave 61
4' Harmonic Flute 61
2-2/3' Twelfth 61
2' Fifteenth 61
8' Tuba 61 ▲
Tremolo
[4] Harp (Deagan: CC - c49) (49)
Great On
Great to Great 16'
Great Unison Off
Great to Great 4'
SWELL (Expressive)
16' Gedackt 73 ○
8' Open Diapason 73
8' Stopped Diapason 73
8' Quintadena 73
8' Viol d'Orchestre 73
8' Voix Celeste (tc) 61
8' Aeoline 73
4' Principal 73
4' Open Flute 73
2' Piccolo 61
III Mixture [12-15-19] 183
8' Cornopean 73
8' Oboe 73
8' Vox Humana 73
Tremolo
Swell to Swell 16'
Swell Unison Off
Swell to Swell 4'
CHOIR (Expressive)
16' Gamba 73 ♠
8' Open Diapason 73
8' Clarabella 73
8' Viole d'Amour 73
8' Dulciana 73
8' Unda Maris (tc) 61
4' Open Flute 73
8' Trompette 73
Tremolo
[4] Harp (Gt) –-
Choir to Choir 16'
Choir Unison Off
Choir to Choir 4'
ECHO (Expressive – Antiphonal)
8' Gedackt 61 ◘
8' Viola 61
8' Voix Celeste (tc) 49
4' Harmonic Flute 61
8' Vox Humana 61
Tremolo
Chimes (Deagan: (20)
Echo On
PEDAL (Expressive Except ♦)
16' Open Diapason 32 ♦
16' Second Diapason (Gt) –- ☼
16' Bourdon 32 □
16' Gamba (Ch) –- ♠
16' Gedackt (Sw) –- ○
16' Echo Bass (Ec) 12 ◘
8' Octave 12 ♦
8' Flute 12 □
8' Cello (Ch) –- ♠
16' Trombone (Gt) 12 ▲
INTER-DIVISIONAL COUPLERS
Swell to Pedal 8,4
Great to Pedal 8,4
Choir to Pedal 8,4
Swell to Great 16,8,4
Choir to Great 16,8,4
Swell to Choir 16,8,4
FINGER PISTONS
General 1 - 6
Swell 1 - 6
Great 1 - 6
Gr. to Ped. (rev)
Choir 1 - 4
Echo 1 - 3
Pedal 1 - 3
SFZ. (rev)
Set
Gen. Can.
TOE STUDS
General 1 - 6
Pedal 1 - 3
PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression (bal.)
Gt/Ch Expression (bal.)
Echo Expression (bal.)
Crescendo (bal.)
ACTION: E-P Ventil & Unit
VOICES: 41
STOPS: 52; inc. chimes & harp
RANKS: 43
PIPES: 2,817
NOTES
The Great, Swell, Choir, and Pedal 16' Bourdon are located in side-
by-side ceiling chambers at the front of the church. The Pedal 16'
Open Diapason is the only rank with pipes outside of expressive
chambers. The Echo is in a ceiling chamber at the back of the
church, and speaks thru a chute.
The original console was in fixed position at the right with the
organist facing across the platform. In the late 1960's or early
1970's, Glen D. White of Olympic Organ Builders in Seattle replaced
the original luminous console. It is not known if any tonal changes
were made then, but based on current stop nomenclatures – it seems
possible.
In 1976, Tacoma organ technician Homer R. Johnson made a few tonal
changes. The Choir 8' reedless Clarinet was replaced with a new 8'
Trompette. On the Swell, the 8' Salicional was replaced with a 4'
Principal. The Swell III Dolce Cornet was renamed Mixture and the
composition was altered. The disposition of the original 8' Sali-
cional is not known.
Sources: Estey opus list; Balcom and Vaughan files; JRS; extant organ
Urban Grace (orig., First Baptist Church)
902 Market St.
Tacoma, WA. 98403 Documented: May 26, 1992
(253) 272-2184
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