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Specification of Builder's organ, Op. 16, for Grace Episcopal Church, Ellensburg, Washington DISPOSITION: Great - Manual I Bourdon 16 - Præstant I-II in discant from ais' 8 from F Holpijp 8 - + Octave 4 ++ Quinte 2 2/3 + Octave 2 Tierce 1 3/5 + Mixture II-IV Echo (Regalwerk) - Man II Regal (from Pearwood) 8 The Regal is located on a separate small windchest immediately over Manual II, behind the music rack; it has a cover flap to change sound level presented to the listeners. Pedal Subbass 16 - Trumpet 8 Couplers, etc Great - Pedal Tremulant - Some pipes common with another stop + plays only in Discant above c' when stop knob is only halfdrawn ++ plays only in Bass from C to b0 when stop knob is only halfdrawn Keyboard compasses: Manuals, 56 notes: C - g '''; Pedal, 30 notes: C - f ', flat Mechanical key action, suspended; mechanical stop action; attached keydesk Metal flue pipes of high lead alloys, hammered and adjusted for vocale sound Cone tuning for small flue pipes; soldered hats for stopped metal pipes; reeds easily tunable by organist Solid wood slider windchests and wind system with large wedge bellows; no stabilizers required Windpressure: 72 mm water column At dedication, this organ was tuned in Werckmeister III, but changed in 1995 to Kellner's "Bach," a mild well-temperament suited to all musical styles. This organ has 12 stops on 15 ranks, with 678 pipes. The freestanding casework of fumed white oak with gilded carvings is architecturally based on an mixing of the Gothic case in Oosthuizen, Holland and the Renaissance case in Sorø, Denmark; in the style of those times, several of the faÁade pipes are embossed. The organ is placed in the left side of the church nave front, facing toward the congregation. Dedication on 1 December 1974 was played by Margaret Irwin-Brandon of Seattle and New England. At the request of Mr. Gustav Leonhardt, this organ was temporarily set up at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Cleveland, Ohio, for his use on 17 June 1974 in concerts for that year's AGO National Convention; during this time, the organ was tuned at his request in 1/4 comma Meantone, perhaps the first use in the 20th century of this important historic tuning for a large scale musical gathering in America.
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