Better Pipe Organ Database

Geo. Kilgen & Son, Inc. Opus 4555 (1930)

Holy Names Academy: Chapel
728 21st Ave. E.
Seattle, WA

Images

2022-06-25 - View from organ bench (Photograph by Tyler Pattison/Tyler Pattison)

2022-06-25 - Console in rear gallery (Photograph by Tyler Pattison/Tyler Pattison)

1909 - Facility exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Vintage postcard, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
2 manuals
11 stops
21 registers
3 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
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - 2/92 form - stop list. (Date is more likely 1920's [ETS]) -Database Manager

2005-07-24 - On-line update from James R. Stettner -- Original relay failing. Organ in need of cleaning/refurbishing/upgrades. Room has GREAT acoustics, though. -Database Manager

2007-04-09 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ date is 1930, not sometime in the 1920s. The organ was installed new for Kilgen by Balcom and Vaughan. The divisional finger pistons also register the Pedal stops. But the divisional cancel does not cancel the Pedal stops. A separate General Cancel button is also provided. -Database Manager

2022-06-26 - Combination action currently inoperative. -Tyler Pattison

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist taken from the console July 20, 2012

Seattle, Washington
Holy Names Academy

Geo. Kilgen & Son, Opus 4555, 1930


    GREAT (Expressive)                       INTER-DIVISIONAL COUPLERS
16  Contra Gamba           (tc)  --          Swell 8             [to Pedal]
8   Open Diapason                61          Great 8             [to Pedal]
8   Gamba                        61
8   Melodia                      61          Swell 16            [to Great]
8   Dulciana                     61          Swell 8             [to Great]
4   Flute                        12          Swell 4             [to Great]

Unison Off
Great 4                                      FINGER PISTONS
                                             Swell & Pedal        [0],1 - 4
                                             Great & Pedal        [0],1 - 4
    SWELL (Expressive)                       [0]             [Pedal Cancel]
16  Bourdon                      12
8   Stopped Diapason             61
8   Salicional                   61          TOE STUDS
8   Voix Celeste           (tc)  61          Great Rev  [Gt. to Ped.] (rev)
8   Aeoline                      73          Sforzando                (rev)
4   Flute D'Amour                12
4   Salicet                      12
2   Flautino                     12          PEDAL MOVEMENTS
8   Oboe                         61          Expression             (bal.)
8   Vox Humana                   61          Crescendo              (bal.)
    Tremolo

Swell 16
Unison Off
Swell 4                                      ACTION: Electro-Pneumatic

                                             VOICES: 11
    PEDAL (Expressive)
16  Bourdon                      32          STOPS: 21
16  Lieblich Gedeckt       (Sw)  --
8   Bass Flute                   12          RANKS: 11
8   Cello                  (Gt)  --
8   Dolce Flute            (Sw)  --          PIPES: 750



[Received from Ann Goodman 2012-07-25.]
[Corrected/Updated by James R. Stettner 2022-04-06 - from console May, 1992/]