Pipe Organ Database

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Unknown Builder (1891)

Originally Hook & Hastings (Opus 1159, 1883)

Location:

First Congregational Church
Park Street
Portland, OR US
Organ ID: 25408

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Status and Condition:

  • This instrument's location type is: Congregational Church
  • The organ is no longer at this location; destroyed, dispersed, relocated or taken in trade.
  • The organ's condition is unknown.
We received the most recent update for this instrument's status from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.

Technical Details:

  • Chests: Slider
  • 19 ranks. 1,040 pipes. 3 divisions. 2 manuals. 19 stops. 17 registers.
All:
  • Chest Type(s): Slider chests
  • Position: In a case at the front of the room.
We received the most recent update for this division from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Main:
  • Manuals: 2
  • Divisions: 3
  • Stops: 19
  • Registers: 17
  • Position: Keydesk attached.
  • Manual Compass: 61
  • Pedal Compass: 32
  • Key Action: Mechanical connection from key to chest (tracker, sticker or mix).
  • Stop Action: Mechanical connection between stop control and chest.
  • Console Style: Traditional style with a keyboard cover that can be lifted to form a music rack.
  • Stop Controls: Drawknobs in horizontal rows on terraced/stepped jambs.
  • Combination Action: Fixed mechanical system.
  • Swell Control Type: Balanced swell shoes/pedals.
  • Pedalboard Type: Flat straight pedalboard.
  • Has Combination Action Toe Pistons
  • Has Coupler Reversible Toe Pistons
We received the most recent update for this console from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Database Manager on March 01, 2007:

Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- This was the reinstallation of the existing 1883 Hook & Hastings from the former edifice. It was installed behind the front arch with the stenciled Pedal Bourdon pipe sides pulled 90 degrees forward and parallel to the facade to fill-out the expanse. What appears to be 11 added "tomato can" dummies were added behind and above the original 13 "tomato can" dummies.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.

Instrument Images:

Chancel and organ: Photograph by unknown photographer. Submitted by James R. Stettner.. Taken on 2006-06-21

Church Exterior: Vintage Postcard, courtesy of T. Bradford Willis, DDS (1911).