Better Pipe Organ Database

Bond Organ Builders, Inc. (2001)

First Unitarian Church: Sanctuary; front
1211 SW Main Street
Portland, OR

Images

2013-10-28 - Organ Case (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

2013-10-28 - Keydesk (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

2013-10-28 - Organ Case (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

2013-10-28 - Detail of Facade Pipes (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
21 stops
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: 61 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 Hutchings-Plaisted (1893). -Database Manager

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

2004-10-30 - Where is this organ from? -Database Manager

2012-08-17 - Updated through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -- Bond Organs website lists this instrument as having been built by Hutchings-Plaisted, c. 1873, but the original location is unknown. -Database Manager

2016-06-24 - Updated through online information from Joe O'Donnell. <br>Site of original installation still unknown. Installed in the newly built St. Francis Xavier Church in Moundsville, West Virginia in 1917, presumably by A.B. DeCourcy. See database entry 361 for further details. Manual chests were retabled and stops rearranged. Additions take advantage of preparations for jump slides made by previous owner. The main regulator, pedal windchests and and pedal key action are new. Some case panels and ornaments had to be recreated. The "hand illustrations" on the front pipes are original - a new background color was painstakingly painted around them. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist (Source: Organbuilder website, 2012-08-15) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

First Unitarian Church
Portland, Oregon
Hutchings-Plaisted, c. 1873; Bond Organ Co. Inc., 2001
OHS ID: 9882
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      GREAT                   SWELL                   PEDAL
    8 Open Diapason         8 Keraulophon          16 Sub Bass
    8 Flauto Traverso       8 Stopped Diapason     16 Bass Clarinet (new)
    8 Dolcissimo            8 Voix Celeste*
    4 Octave                4 Principal (new)         COUPLERS
2-2/3 Twelfth               4 Harmonic Flute          Swell to Great
    2 Fifteenth             2 Piccolo (new)           Great to Pedal
      Mixture III (new) 2-2/3 Cornet TC (new)         Swell to Pedal
    8 Trumpet (new)         8 Oboe

*former Violina; half-draw position with Cornet II.
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[Received online from T. Daniel Hancock, 2012-08-15]

Websites

Bond Organ Builders Inc. Gallery: First Unitarian Church - Photograph, stoplist, links to additional information (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#359†* - A. B. DeCourcy & Co. (1917)