Roy, Washington
Residence: Michael Korchonoff

MICHAEL KORCHONNOFF, Opus 1, 1997 - Original Specifications


MANUAL (54 notes)                            ACTION: Suspended mech. key 
   8     Bourdon                    54                       & mech stop
   4     Prestant   (side façades)  54
   2-2/3 Nasard          (descant)  30       VOICES: 6
   2     Flûte                      54
         Tremblant                           STOPS: 6

                                             RANKS: 6
PEDAL (27 notes)
   8     Flûte                      23       PIPES: 242
   8     Régale                     27

         Soufflerie [wind]


NOTES
The organ is free-standing and housed in a case of quarter-sawn white oak. The finish is
hand-rubbed, tung oil varnish. The front of the case is enclosed with hinged doors which
have Fleur-de-lis cut-outs for tonal egress. The music rack is designed to be removed by
sliding it up out of its center "track" to allow the doors to be opened. The pedalboard
is flat and parallel. The pedal keys are of maple with ebony caps. The manual keys are
covered in satinwood and ebony. The stop labels are hand-written on parchment. The draw-
knobs are of turned ebony. The wind pressure is 50mm (2").

The 8' Bourdon pipes are mitred in the bass octave to fit it into the compact case, with
several pipes on the ceiling of the case. The first 18 pipes are of stopped wood. Pipes
19-54 are common metal chimney flutes with soldered caps. The first eight pipes of the 4'
Prestant are of open wood. Pipes 9 - 16 are diatonically divided with eight pipes in each
of the side façades. The 2⅔' Nasard is a descant stop from tenor C. Both the Nasard and 2'
Flûte are tapered. The metal pipework is of 97% hammered lead.

The pedal chest is located inside the lower case. The 8' Régale is entirely atop the chest.
The 8' Flûte is of open wood, and quite thin-walled. The first 4 notes are borrowed from the
manual 8' Bourdon. Pipes 5 - 27 are located behind the case on an unenclosed chest with each
pipe atop a its own wind channel. The wind is conveyed from the slider chest to the wind
channels on the external chest by flexible wind ducts. The blower, bellows, and Tremblant
are also enclosed inside the lower case. The wind line to the Pedal chest is 2" in diameter.
The wind line to the manual chest is 3" in diameter.

The organ was originally placed in the home of the builder in Roy, WA, but was later offered
for sale through The American Organist and the Newsletter of the Seattle Chapter of the AGO.
It was purchased by First Congregational Church of Bellevue, WA. for $40,000.00, and placed
in the front left corner of the chapel.

See The American Organist, January 1998, Vol. 32, No. 1, page 71 for a picture and description.

Sources: JRS; extant organ (in Bellevue).

 [Received from James R. Stettner 2013-05-27.]