2023-03-03 - This entry represents the installation of a used organ by its original builder. Identified via email by parish Music Dir. Michael Plagerman. The Bigelow was originally built for the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, Illinois. The School is relocating and the organ had to be sold and removed before the lease was up. Blessed Sacrament acquired the organ at a handsome price, and Bigelow fit its relocation and reinstallation into his schedule to accomodate imminent and inflexible timelines. The Bigelow displaced a used Francis Tallman organ - itself a rebuild of an Erben - which Blessed Sacrament had gotten from St. Dominics in San Francisco in 2005. Sadly, the Erben/Tallman was not saved excepting some pipework and perhaps select parts. -Jim Stettner
2024-09-23 - Updated through online information from Geoffrey Liu (September 22, 2024): The dedication was 21 September 2024 at 7:30 PM. -Jim Stettner
Originally copied from the builder's website. Source: Stoplist copied from a related OHS Database entry
Seattle, Washington
Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church
M. L. Bigelow & Co., Opus 31, 2004
M. L. Bigelow & Co., 2023 - Moving & Re-installation
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GREAT SWELL (Expressive)
16' Bourdon 34 a 8' Oak Gedackt 58
8' Præstant 58 8' Viola da gamba 58
8' Chimney Flute 58 8' Voix celeste (TC) 46
8' Harmonic Flute 58 4' Viol-Principal 58
4' Octave 58 4' Open Flute 58
4' Dolce Flute 58 2 2/3' Nasard 58
2' Octave 58 2' Conical Flute 58
II Sesquialtera 116 III Plein Jeu III 174
IV Mixture 232 16' Bass Clarinet 58
8' Trumpet 58 8' Oboe 58
Swell to Great Tremulant *
Flexible Wind *
PEDAL ORGAN GENERAL
16' Præstant 30 b 58/30 notes. AGO Pedalboard.
16' Bourdon 42 Keys of bone/ebony.
8' Octave 42 Self-regulating, key-tensioned
8' Bourdon (fr. 16') -- mechanical action, except
4' Octave (fr. 8') -- Præstant 16' and 1-24 of
16' Posaune 42 Great Bourdon 16'.
8' Posaune (fr. 16') -- Electric stop action.
Great to Pedal Multi-level combination action/
Swell to Pedal sequencer.
Mechanical Swell.
* Flexible Wind and Tremulant Bell Star (8 bells, wind driven)
affect both manuals
a 1-24 from Ped. 16' Bourdon
b Electro-pneumatic action
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