Sherman, Clay & Co.
Seattle, WA
Opus 580

 
Great
8'  Gr. Open Diapason                61
8'  Gr. Melodia                           61
8'  Gr. Dulciana                          61
4'  Gr. Principal                          61
  
Swell (Enclosed)
16' Sw. Bourdon                         61
8'  Sw. Violin Diapason               61
8'  Sw. Stopped Diapason           61
8'  Sw. Salicional                       61
4'  Sw. Flute Harmonic               61
8'  Sw. Oboe   [labial]          (tc)   49
Tremolo                                
  
Pedal
16'  Ped. Bourdon                       30
 
Couplers
Swell to Pedal                           [8]
Great to Pedal                           [8]
Swell to Great                           [8]
Swell to Great 8ves                   [4]
 
 
Foot Levers (undocumented)
REV    [Great to Pedal]     reversible
  
Pedal Movements
Swell Expression           balanced

Action: Tubular-Pneumatic key & stop
 
Voices:  11
 
Stops:  11
 
Ranks:  11

Pipes:  628
 
Notes
The organ was free-standing and encased with an attached, projecting keydesk.
 It was originally built for Sherman, Clay & Co. in Seattle, and was purchased by and installed at
First Congregational Church of Wenatchee in 1910.
 
It was later sold to the Methodists in Wenatchee. It was replaced at First United Methodist by a III-manual Casavant.
 
The exact nomenclature of stops and controls can not be verified since the organ was broken-up. It was taken from a letter from Mr. Roger D. Swayze to Bill Bunch of Balcom and Vaughan in February, 1972. It is also taken from other extant and documented examples of the builder's work from this period.
 
The organ was sold to Mr. Swayze of Eugene, OR. in 1972. He retrieved it from Wenatchee in late January, 1973 and had plans to move it to his home in Eugene where he was going to use the electrified Great 4-rank chest to make a unit organ for his home. The 6-rank Swell chest was to be sold to a Mr. Art Hawn to become the Choir division of an existing home pipe organ.
 
The Great 8' Melodia had a stopped wood and not a Haskelled bass. The Great 8' Dulciana was - suprisingly - full-length and not Haskelled. But the Swell 8' Violin Diapason and 8' Salicional both very likely had Haskelled basses.
  
Sources
Estey opus list
Correspondence in the Balcom & Vaughan files
James R. Stettner
Laurence Leonard