Better Pipe Organ Database

Unknown Builder (1910)

St. Mary Roman Catholic Church
1587 Highway AM
Moselle (Villa Ridge), MO

OHS convention: 1979

Images

1979 - Keydesk (Photograph from an archival source: 1979 OHS Handbook, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

1979 - Organ case in loft (Photograph from an archival source: 1979 OHS Handbook, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

2014-11-04 - Organ Case and Keydesk (Photograph by Norbert Shacklette/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Console position: Keydesk Attached
1 manuals
8 stops
9 registers
2 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 54 notes
Pedal compass: 20 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: No Enclosed Divisions
Combination action: None

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 2000. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Original location not known. Placed here c. 1910. Franklin Co. Renovated 1970's by American Pipe Organ Co., Washington, MO (Raymond Churchtown). Compass 54/20. -Database Manager

2014-09-15 - Updated by T. Daniel Hancock, using information found in Petering, 1979. -- According to Petering, 1979, this organ was relocated here in 1910 from an unknown source, but "the date 1862 was found lightly penciled in the low C# channel of the chest when it was being rebuilt a few years ago." -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: 1979 OHS Handbook June 1979

MANUAL (54 notes, unenclosed) Principal 8 (54 pipes, 7 stopped wood basses, G8-G20 in case), Salicional 8 (42 pipes, bass grooved to Gedakt), Dulciana 8 (54 pipes, 12 capped zinc basses; spotted, slotted trebles; added on auxiliary toeboard and slider), Gedakt 8 (54 pipes, stopped wood to top; melodia mouths TC to top), Octav 4 (common metal), Quint 2⅔ (common metal), Octav 2 (common metal)

PEDAL (20 notes) Subbass 16 (20 pipes, stopped wood)

Stoplist taken from the console Novermber 5, 2014 Source: Taken from console 11/5/2014

Villa Ridge, Missouri
St. Mary Roman Catholic Church

Unknown builder

Single Keyboard                       Pedal

 8     Dulciana     54 pipes           16   Subbass  20 pipes
 8     Salicional   42 pipes
 8     Principal    54 pipes
 8     Gedackt      54 pipes
 4     Octave       54 pipes
 2 2/3 Quint        54 pipes
 2     Octave       54 pipes

Keyboard to Pedal Coupler

No Tremolo

 [Received from Dennis Opferman 2014-11-29.]