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Bond Pipe Organs Inc. (1985)

St. Pius X Roman Catholic Church
1280 NW Saltzman Rd.
Portland, OR

Images

2006-06-20 - Organ Case (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

2006-06-20 - Keydesk (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
14 stops
12 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: None

Notes

2004-10-30 - The original builder was Geo. Kilgen & Son (1890). -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - OCH from House of Prayer, St. Louis, MO 1976. Installed in St. Pius X's earlier building c. 1976 by Dean Applegate, Harley Perkins and Joseph Smith. Moved into a new building by Richard Bond in 1985. -Database Manager

2007-03-11 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- This was the relocation, refurbishing, and reinstallation of the existing Geo. Kilgen & Sons organ from the parish's former edifice. Quarter-sawn oak case. Seventeen gold-painted pipes en façade. The Swell Tremolo is on a hitch-down foot lever to the left of the expression pedal. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the console February 7, 1990 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Portland (Cedar Mill), Oregon
St. Pius X Catholic Church

GEO. KILGEN & SON, 1890
Bond Pipe Organs, Inc., 1985 - Renovation; No Tonal Changes

GREAT
   8   Open Diapason              58
   8   Dulciana             (tc)  46
   8   Melodia              (tc)  46
   8   Unison Bass                12
   4   Octave                     58
   3   Twelfth                    58
   2   Fifteenth                  58

SWELL (Expressive)
   8   Open Diapason        (tc)  46
   8   Viola                (tc)  46
   8   Stop'd Diapason      (tc)  46
   8   St'd Diap. Bass            12
   4   Violina                    58
   4   Flute                      58

PEDAL
   16  Bourdon                    27

COUPLERS (Drawknob)
   Sw. to Ped. Coupler           [8]
   Gr. to Ped. Coupler           [8]
   Sw. to Gr. Coupler            [8]

FOOT LEVERS (Labeled)
   Swell Tremolo        (hitch-down)

PEDAL MOVEMENTS
   Swell Expression           (bal.)

ACTION: Mechanical Key & Stop
VOICES: 12
STOPS: 14
RANKS: 12
PIPES: 629

NOTES
This organ was originally built for a German Methodist Church in St.
Louis, MO. The building was later known as the "House of Prayer for
All People."  The organ became available and was listed through the
Organ Clearing House.

In 1976, then organist Harley Perkins, learned of its availability.
After an examination of the instrument by a St. Louis contact, the
organ was purchased - sight unseen - by St. Pius X, and with the hope
that it would fit the small, original chapel building. It did just
barely fit, and a door had to be moved to accommodate the organ. It
was installed "as is" by Mr. Perkins along with Dean Applegate and
Joseph Smith.

In 1985 when the present building was built, the organ was removed
and renovated without tonal changes by the Bond firm of Portland
before re-installation in the new edifice.

 [Received on line from James R. Stettner April 21, 2009.]

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