Larabee Memorial Presbyterian Church
500 Milwaukee Ave.
Deer Lodge, MT
Images
Unknown - Left Pipe Facade and Great Chamber Grillework ((1999) Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
Unknown - Great Pipework (f-b): Open Diapason, Dulciana, Concert Flute ((1999) Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
Unknown - Swell Pipework (l-r): Salicional, Geigen Principal, Rohr Flute, Cornopean ((1999) Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
Unknown - Pipework (offset treble extensions on slider chest) ((1999) Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
Unknown - Console ((1999) Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
Unknown - Chancel, Pipe Facades, and Console ((ca. 1916) Photograph from Church Archives; image courtesy of James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
- 2 manuals
- 8 stops
- 9 registers
- 3 divisions
- Key action Type: Electrical
- Stop action Type: Electrical
- Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
- Manual compass: 61 notes
- Pedal compass: 32 notes
- Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
- Has crescendo
- Combination action: Adjustable Mechanical
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
Notes
2005-01-08 - Information identifying this instrument from the Austin Organs, Inc. web site, accessed December 31, 2004: http://www.austinorgans.com/organ-research.htm. -Database Manager
2005-06-02 - Entry updated through information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager
2005-11-21 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Console originally installed in fixed, center position in front gallery. Organ had a matching, dummy façade on the right side. Front gallery later removed. Right dummy façade eliminated. Left façade dummy pipes eliminated. Console placed in front right corner of chancel on 45 degree angle with organist facing chancel/congregation. Pipes removed/cleaned, chests cleaned, stoppers releathered, offset extension chest moved in 1999 by Stettner & Larson. -Database Manager
2014-07-28 - Updated through online information from Kent Brocklebank. -- This organ is used weekly for Sunday services but is not in the best condition. Budget restraints have limited the resources to maintain this instrument Played this organ June 2014 -Database Manager
Stoplist
Stoplist copied from the console July 3, 1994 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Deer Lodge, Montana
Larrabee Memorial Presbyterian Church (later, First)
Austin Organ Co., Opus 688 (1916) - Original Specifications
GREAT
8' Open Diapason 73
8' Concert Flute 73
8' Dulciana 73
Great 16'
Great On 8'
Great 4'
SWELL (Expressive)
8' Geigen Principal 73
8' Rohr Flute (wood) 73
8' Salicional 73
4' Flute d'Amour 12 Duplex from 8' Rohr Flute.
8' Cornopean 73
Tremolo
Swell 16'
Swell On 8'
Swell 4'
PEDAL
16' Bourdon 32
8' Flute 12 Extension of the 16' Bourdon.
COUPLERS
Swell 8' [to Pedal]
Swell 4' [to Pedal]
Great 8' [to Pedal]
Swell 16' [to Great]
Swell 8' [to Great]
Swell 4' [to Great]
FINGER PISTONS
General 1 - 8
Swell & Pedal 1 - 8
Great & Pedal 1 - 8
TOE STUDS
Ped-Rev (rev) Great to Pedal.
Sforzando (rev)
PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression (bal.)
Crescendo (bal.)
ACTION: E-P; Austin "Universal" windchests ™
VOICES: 8
STOPS: 10
RANKS: 8
PIPES: 567
NOTES
As originally installed, there were two large facades on each side of the
chancel. The organ was installed in a chamber on the left side. The right
side facade was just for symmetry/show. The console was in an elevated
front gallery with the choir.
In 1961, a sanctuary renovation removed the front gallery entirely, re-
locating the console to the chancel floor in the front, right corner.
The right side dummy facade was removed, and the extra dummy pipes on the
left side were removed as well. Only the largest speaking facade pipes
were left exposed (1, 3, 5, 7, & 9 of the Open Diapason). Other speaking
facade pipes (10, 11, & 12) were behind the grille cloth chamber cover.
A removable panel allowed access for tuning the Great.
The Swell is accessed from a hatch on the stairwell landing. The Pedal
16' Bourdon has its bottom octave on their sides along the back wall of
the Swell with the smallest pipe (BBB) on the bottom so as not to block
the access hatch. The remainder of the Bourdon pipes are on a chest sus-
pended over the center of the diatonically divided windchest. All of the
treble extensions (62-73) for both manual divisions are on little slider
chests with tubed action. While the Swell 4' Flute d'Amour is a duplex
from the 8' Rohr Flute - it does have its own independent extension pipes
for notes 62-73.
The organ contains several incongruencies which provide some mystery. The
extension slider chest for the Great ranks is marked with opus 693 - which
is five organs later than this one. And the scallop racks which support
the 8' Dulciana also bear another opus numer and are marked with the name
Violoncello.
In July, 1996 - Meadway & Stettner Pipe Organs refurbished the organ. The
price was $11,000.00. All pipework was removed and cleaned. All wooden
pipes with stoppers were releathered. The chambers were cleaned. Shutters
were lubricated. The extension chest for the Swell was relocated for
better access, as was the Bourdon extension chest. Several Bourdon chest
armatures had to be releathered. Once re-piped, the organ was regulated.
Volunteer help from parishioners saved the church $1,100.00 on the cost
of the project.
[Received on line from James R. Stettner June 16, 2009.]
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