Bellimgham, Washington
Austin Organ, 1921

Description by James R. Stettner
On-line update, September 2005

The specifications of the organ were drawn-up in consultation with the builder 
by Dr. Franklin Sawyer Palmer, senior organist and choirmaster of St. James' 
Cathedral in Seattle. He also played the dedicatory recital. The large, IV-man. 
Austin built for St. James' Cathedral in Chicago was shipped on the same train 
as the Assumption organ. 

The organ is in mirror image, divided cases against the back wall in the rear gallery. 
The Swell and the Pedal 16'/8' Bourdon are on the left side. The Great and the Pedal 
16' Open Diapason are on the right side. Both Pedal ranks are unenclosed. Each case 
has a facade of 46 pipes arranged: 15-7-24. The flats of 24 pipes are across the 
front. The corner towers have 7 pipes. And a perpendicular flat of 15 pipes extends 
from the corner tower to the back wall. The Great 8' Open Diapason has its first 12 
pipes in the flat of 24, and the balance is also unenclosed between the facade and 
the Great expression shutters.