Better Pipe Organ Database

Bond Pipe Organs Inc. Opus 19 (1990)

Willamette University: Waller Hall, Cone Chapel
900 State St.
Salem, OR

Images

1990 - Organ case at front, view from left (Photograph from an archival source: Builder website, Strode Eckert Photographic, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

1990 - Console (Photograph from an archival source: Builder website, Strode Eckert Photographic, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

1990 - Organ case at front of room (Builder website, Strode Eckert Photographic, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
2 manuals
22 stops
24 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1992. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Suspended key action; El. stop action; SS comb.; 3 more stops prepared. -Database Manager

2007-10-24 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Handsome 7-sectional case with ?? facade pipes arranged: 5-10-5-??-5-10-5. The center section is divided into upper (??) and lower (11) sections. Several registers are prepared-for. When fully completed, the organ will have 25 registers, 27 speaking stops, 32 ranks, and 1,735 pipes. This organ replaced a second-hand, electrified 1878 Bergstrom tracker which had originally been built for Taylor Street M.E. in Portland. -Database Manager

2017-01-17 - Updated by Zachary Duell, who has heard or played the organ. <br> -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Cone Chapel,  Waller Hall                                           (1864**) 
Willamette University, Salem, Oregon 
Richard Bond, Opus 19 

Great 
16' Bourdon 
 8' Principal  
 8' Rohrfloete
 8' Harm. Flute (prep) 
 4' Octave 
 4' Spitzfloete 
 2' Super Octave 
    Mixture IV       
 8' Trumpet                  
    Swell to Great       

Swell 
8' Gedackt
8' Salicional 
8' Voix Celeste 
4' Principal  
4' Koppelfloete 
2 2/3' Nazard  
2' Waldfloete 
1 3/5' Tierce   
   Scharf III-IV  
8' Oboe
4' Clarion
   Tremolo

Pedal
16' Subbass
16' Bourdon (Great)
 8' Open Bass
 4' Choral Bass
16' Posaune
 8' Trumpet (Great)
   Great to Pedal
   Swell to Pedal

Mechanical Key action; 2 Manuals, 61 notes, 32 pedals
Electric stop action with 8 memory levels.  Summary:  29 ranks, 25 stops

Casework: Poplar wood, painted to match wall and trim colors. Facade towers 
proportioned to harmonize with the dimensions of the stained glass windows. Pipes 
of 70% polished tin reflect the colors of the room. Hand carved pipe shades tinted 
with gold.