Better Pipe Organ Database

Bond Pipe Organs Inc. Opus 25 (1996)

Holy Rosary Roman Catholic Church & Dominican Priory
375 NE Clackamas St.
Portland, OR

Images

Unknown - Nave, Balcony, and Organ Case ((ca. 1996) Promotional photograph by Bond Organbuilders/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
2 manuals
34 stops
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 32 notes
Pedal compass: 58 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Computerized/Digital
Has combination thumb pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1997 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Uses 16 ranks from an 1881 Bergstrom organ, built for Taylor St. Methodist, Portland, OR which was later electrified at Willamette University, Salem, OR. Purchased and stored by Archdiocese of Portland. [Replaced a 2m. c. 1929 Kilgen, Op. 4119, model U3, rebuilt & enlarged by Bond c. 1983. Sanctuary and organ burned 1993.] -Database Manager

2007-03-18 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Free-standing and encased in the rear of the room. Palladian-style case. Three-sectional façade contains 31 pipes of the Great 16' Double Open Diapason and 8' Open Diapason arranged 9-13-9. -Database Manager

2008-11-09 - Updated through online information from James W.Bergstrom. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

Holy Rosary Catholic Church, Portland, Oregon
Richard Bond, 1996
Incorporating 1880 pipework by John Bergstrom

GREAT
   16' Double Open Diapason
    8' Open Diapason*
    8' Melodia*
    8' Bourdon*
    8' Viola da Gamba*
    4' Octave*
    4' Flute
2 2/3' Twelfth*
2 2/3' Nazard
    2' Fifteenth*
1 3/5' Tierce
  VII  Mixture
    8' Trumpet*
       Tremolo
       Swell to Great

SWELL
   16' Dulciana*
    8' Open Diapason*
    8' Stopped Diapason*
    8' Viola*
    8' Voix Celeste
    4' Octave
    4' Flauto Traverso*
    2' Flautino*
1 1/3' Larigot
  III  Sesquialtera
    8' Oboe
    8' Clarinet
       Tremolo

PEDAL
   32' Resultant Bass
   16' Open Diapason (Great)
   16' Sub Bass*
   16' Bourdon*
    8' Geigen Principal
    8' Flute
    4' Octave
   16' Trombone
    8' Trumpet
       Great to Pedal
       Swell to Pedal

* indicates the 16 stops from Bergstrom (1880)
34 stops, 37 ranks
Mechanical key action, 2 manuals, 58 notes
Electric stop action, two level solid state combination action
Bell Star

Incorporates 16 ranks of relatively untouched pipework from an 1880 organ built by John
Bergstrom for the First Methodist Church of Portland. 

The casework wood is quarter-sawn oak with a finish of stain, linseed oil, and wax, rubbed by hand.
Gilding is 24-carat German gold. Facade pipes are nearly 100% lead.

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#30828†* - Unknown Builder