Spokane, Washington
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Salem Church

HILLGREEN-LANE ORGAN CO., Opus 292, 1911 - Original Specifications


GREAT                                        COUPLERS
   8  Open Diapason                 61          Swell to Pedal
   8  Melodia                       61          Great to Pedal
   8  Dulciana                      61
   4  Flute d'Amour                 61          Swell to Great


SWELL (Expressive)                           FINGER PISTONS
   8  Open Diapason                 61          Undocumented
   8  Stopped Diapason              61
   8  Oboe Gamba                    49
   8  Vox Celeste                   49       FOOT LEVERS
   8  Aeoline                       61          Undocumented
   4  Rohr Flute                    61
   8  Vox Humana                    61
      Tremolo                                PEDAL MOVEMENTS
                                                Expression                   (bal.)

PEDAL
   16  Bourdon                      30
   16  Lieblich Gedeckt             30


ACTION: T-P         VOICES: 13         STOPS: 13         RANKS: 13        PIPES: 707


NOTES
This was the church's first pipes organ. Prior to this, music was furnished by a I-manual,
chapel-style reed organ built by the Moline Organ Co. of Moline, Illinois.               

The Hillgreen-Lane was installed in the spring of 1912, and was a gift of the Young People's
Society. The cost was over $1,000.00. The organ was located on the front, right side of the
sanctuary in a shallow recess. The case front was of quarter-sawn oak, and the façade had 23
gold pipes which included notes 3-17 of the Great 8' Open Diapason. The keydesk was attached
and projecting. Pipes 1 & 2 of the Great 8' Open Diapason, pipes 1-9 of the Swell 8' Open
Diapason, and pipes 1-12 of the Swell 4' Rohr Flute were of stopped wood. The Great 8' Dul-
ciana and Swell 8' Aeoline each had six cannistered basses.

The building was lost to fire on February 15, 1949 when a workman's cutting torch ignited
dust between the old wooden frame church and its newer brick veneer. This was during the
construction of the Youth Center. The altar painting and the organ survived. Balcom and
Vaughan of Seattle was contracted to remove the organ from the burnt building and rebuild
it for the new edifice. As rebuilt it had a new III-manual console, four added new ranks
of pipes increasing the size to 17 ranks, 28 stops, and 1,001 pipes.

The above specification is not verified, and the exact nomenclature of stops and controls
is not known. The stoplist is reconstructed from the original, extant chests and pipes.


Sources: Fiftieth Anniversary booklet; B&V Opus list and files; extant, rebuilt organ

 [Received from James R. Stettner 2015-06-08.]