Bond Pipe Organs Inc.
1985

Originally Balcom & Vaughan Pipe Organs (Opus 688, 1961)

First Presbyterian Church

Chapel

230 NE 9th Street
Bend, OR, US

9 Ranks - 561 Pipes
Instrument ID: 25679 ● Builder ID: 721 ● Location ID: 22624
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Builder: Unknown
Position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
Design: Traditional With Roll Top
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Features:
2 Manuals (61 Notes)32 Note Pedal1 Divisions25 Stops9 RegistersElectrical Key ActionElectrical Stop Action✓ Crescendo

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Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination Action: Unknown
Control System: Unknown or N/A

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This instrument is: Not Extant and Not Playable in this location

Jim Stettner on February 11th, 2025:
This organ has subsequently found a home at St. Matthew's Lutheran Church in Port Angeles, WA. in 2024. It was tonally augmented again at that time.

Jim Stettner on February 11th, 2025:
Transplanted note from a duplicate OHS Database listing: Joe O'Donnell on September 28th, 2022: A letter in Bond's files indicates that the church purchased a Balcom and Vaughan organ from an LDS Stake Center in Walla Walla, Washington in May of 1984 for $6,500.00. This was almost certainly the 1961 Balcom and Vaughan listed elsewhere in the Database. Richard Bond augmented the instrument with Kilgen windchests and pipework from various sources.

Jim Stettner on February 11th, 2025:
Transplanted note from a duplicate OHS Database listing: Joe O'Donnell on February 4th, 2022: The original sanctuary now serves as a chapel. Because the organ was no longer in regular use, the church gifted it back to Bond. It was removed to storage in September 2021 with the exception of the exposed 8' Principal pipes which the church desired to retain. Negotiations are underway to install the organ in a new home. The core of the organ is a Balcom and Vaughan instrument removed from an LDS church in Walla Walla, Washington. A few used ranks and chests were used to augment it at the time of its installation in Bend.

Database Manager on March 21st, 2007:
Identified through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- Installed in a chamber on the left side of the chancel. 1-12 of the Great 8' Principal are in front of the chamber. Bond notes indicate that the organ was a 1958 Balcom and Vaughan, but its origins as such are not yet known.

Related Instrument Entries: Balcom & Vaughan Pipe Organs (Opus 688, 1961) , Balcom and Vaughan (Opus 656, 1958) , Bond Organ Builders, Inc. (2024)

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