Guenther Organ Co.
1936

Updated through online information from Patricia Warren. -- After many years of silence, the Estey Opus 1429 organ at the Clatsop Community College Performing Arts Center (PAC), 588 16th Street, Astoria OR, will gloriously sound again. An inaugural concert for the newly repaired instrument entitled "Saints and Sinners�? will be held Saturday, November 2 at 2pm.
Repair of the Estey Opus 1429 organ was made possible through donations from the Bloomfield Family Foundation, the John C. and Janet A. Nybakke Memorial Fund of the Lutheran Community Foundation, the Clatsop Community College Foundation, the North Coast Chorale and numerous individual donors.

Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- This was an electrification with new drawknob console of an existing Estey which had been originally built in 1916 as Estey's Opus 1429 for the Portland, Oregon residence of Dr. John Sellwood. The Estey opus list later listed the organ as "broken-up," but it is completely intact and original minus its original console - which likely had a player. The Guenther console is prepared for additions: a 4' octave and 2' Fifteenth on the Great; a 16' - 8' - 4' - 2-2/3' - 2' Gedeckt unit on the Swell; n 8' Viol celeste and 2' Piccolo on the Choir; and two blank drawknobs on the Pedal. These were never added. In 1973, Trinity merged with Zion Lutheran to form Peace Lutheran at a new edifice. The Zion six-rank Wicks was moved and the Estey/Guenther remained behind. The chuch was acquired by Clatsop Community College who use the sanctuary as a drama auditorium, and the lower level as classrooms and offices. The organ has fallen into a state of disrepair and needs to be restored or rebuilt to make it playable.