Pipe Organ Database

Updated through online information from James R. Stettner.

Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The used console that was added to the organ by Rene Marceau was a 1940s vintage Kimball console which was added to the three-manual Estey (Op. 763, 1910) at First Presbyterian in Spokane, Washington. That console has since been acquired by the Pipe Organ Foundation of Mercer Island, Washington; it was rebuilt and retro-fitted with Syndyne solid state, and now controls the organ at Mercer Island Presbyterian Church on Mercer Island, Washington.

Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- This is Seattle's oldest organ in its original home. Other than the electrification, it is entirely original and intact. It is, indeed, sad that it was electrified. But the church bears some culpability in this...not just Balcom and Vaughan. They allowed it to happen, and may have requested it since the console and choir were in a front gallery. The stop tablets that were added to the console were NOT used theatre organ tablets. The nomenclatures are too close to the writing on the pipes to have been random used tablets. They appear to be standard 1940s Durst & Co. stop tablets from whom Balcom and Vaughan is known to have regularly ordered pipes and supplies. The registers/stops/ranks/pipes listed above reflect the organ as Balcom and Vaughan electrified it, and as documented on Sept. 2, 1993. This does not include stopkeys controlling couplers, but does include the chimes. The Hook & Hastings opus list gives the size as 39 registers.

Updated through online information from Ryan Dye. -- Church is now called All Pilgrims Christian Church as Pilgrim Congregational UCC and Seattle First Christian DOC merged in 2003.. The original stenciled facade was visible above the altar in the front of the room. The original Hook console was also above the altar near the façade. It was a standard terraced draw-knob console. Unfortunately in the 1940s, Balcolm & Vaughan rebuilt the console and tore out the draw knobs and replaced them with plastic tabs from some theatre organ. They also walled over the pipes, leaving only a small opening under a newly constructed arch. The pedal façade pipes were moved to a new chest on the far left hand side of the church behind the new arched façade. The organ was electrified from tubular-pneumatic and the console was moved down to the main floor. I became Music Director in 2000 and the orginal Hook console had since failed and was replaced by an Estey or Kimball console put in by René Marceau. That console began to fail soon after I arrived. The organ is no longer playable. The original console is sitting in the chapel. The organ is awaiting a complete restoration...and the removal of the dreaded arch. The church currently uses an electronic organ installed in 2003.

Status Note: There 1995.

To be refurbished (by Marceau?).