Better Pipe Organ Database

Randall J. McCarty (1979)

Faith Lutheran Church
1212 Connection Street
Shelton, WA

OHS convention: 1982

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
13 stops
14 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Has combination trundles

Notes

2004-10-30 - This entry represents the installation of a used organ with some tonal modifications (see 'Notes'). The original builder was Henry Pilcher's Sons (1907, Opus 595). -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1982. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - OCH from First Baptist, Sidney, OH 1979. Case remained behind. Bottom 23 Open Diapason from Casavant Freres, Op. 5416, Pacific Lutheran Univ., Tacoma, WA. Bottom 10 pipes of Dulciana 8' from 1912 W. W. Kimball for Green Lake M. E., Seattle, WA. Bottom 8 pipes of Octave 4' from Austin Opl 181, 1907 for 1st Pres., Seattle, WA. Aeoline 8' replaced by Harmonic Piccolo 2' from Austin Op. 181. -Database Manager

2006-12-01 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

2015-08-01 - Updated through online information from Sean Haley. -- The organ is in fair condition. Unfortunately it lacks casework and has simple plywood around the keydesk topped by glass to acoustically shield the organist. Offset action for the Pedal 16' Bourdon is pneumatic as are the offsets of the 8' Diapason. -Database Manager

2017-05-03 - Updated by James R. Stettner, who has heard or played the organ. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Personal inspection 20 January, 2023 Source: Taken from Console 20 January, 2023

Shelton, Washington
Faith Lutheran Church

Henry Pilcher's Sons Op. 595 1907
Randall McCarty CA. 1979

61 Note Manuals
30 Note Pedal

Great               Swell                           Pedal

8' Open Diapason    16' Bourdon Bass (1-12)         16' Ped. Bourdon
8' Melodia          16' Bourdon Treble (13-61)
8' Dulciana          8' Violin Diapason
4' Octave            8' Stop'd Diapason
4' Flute d'Amour     8' Vox Celeste (Not currently tuned as Céleste)
                     4' Flute Harmonique
                     4' Violina
                     2' Piccolo (paper label)

Below Swell Left to Right:
Sw to Ped Off/On reversible buttons
Gt to Ped Off/On reversible buttons
Sw to Gt Off/On reversible buttons
Sw to Gt Super Octaves Off/On reversible buttons

Sw. Tremolo
Signal

Great Forte (Draws on 8’Open, 8’ Melodia, 4’ Octave, 4’Flute)
Great Piano (Draws on 8’ Melodia, 8 Dulciana)

 [Received from Dennis Northway 21, January 2023]

Stoplist take from console July 6, 2015 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Shelton, Washington
Faith Lutheran Church

Henry Pilcher's Sons Op. 595 1907
Randall McCarty CA. 1979

Great               Swell                    Pedal

8' Open Diapason    16' Bourdon Bass         16' Ped. Bourdon
8' Melodia          16' Bourdon Treble
8' Dulciana          8' Violin Diapason
4' Octave            8' Stop'd Diapason
4' Flute d'Amour     8' Vox Celeste
                     4' Flute Harmonique
                     4' Violina
                     2' Piccolo
Sw. Tremolo
Signal

 [Received from Sean Haley 2015-08-01.]

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