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W. W. Kimball Co. (1908 ca.)

First Presbyterian Church
215 West Broadway
Butte, MT

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Images

1908-04-21 - Choir and Organ. (Photograph in church archives; digital image produced with permission by James R. Stettner./Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
2 manuals
19 stops
20 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Has crescendo

Notes

2005-06-07 - Identified through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- Installed across the front in side-by-side formation. Quarter-sawn oak case and ornately stencilled five-sectional façade arranged: 9-5-23-5-9. Console at right side in front of case. Organ moved to new church in 1956 and action electrified without tonal changes. Ventil chests with tubular-pneumatic key and stop action. Organ moved to new (present) church in 1950s - believed to have been done by George Graham of Spokane. -Database Manager

2005-11-20 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

2005-12-30 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from the extant, relocated chests and pipework in the present church. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Butte, Montana
First Presbyterian (old)

W.W. Kimball Co., Opus ____, ca. 1905 - Original Specifications

GREAT
   8'     Open Diapason             61   Partly en façade.
   8'     Melodia                   61
   8'     Viol d'Gamba              61
   8'     Dulciana                  61
   4'     Octave                    61
   2-2/3' Twelfth                   61
   2'     Fifteenth                 61

SWELL (Expressive)
   16'    Bourdon Treble            49
   16'    Bourdon Bass              12
   8'     Violin Diapason           61
   8'     Stopped Diapason          61
   8'     Salicional                61
   8'     Aeoline                   61
   4'     Flute Harmonic            61
   4'     Violina                   61
   2'     Flautino                  61
   II     Dolce Cornet             122   Composition: 12-15. String pipes.
   8'     Oboe                      61
          Tremolo

PEDAL
   16'    Bourdon                   30
   8'     Violoncello               30

COUPLERS
   Undocumented

FINGER PISTONS
   Undocumented

FOOT LEVERS
   Undocumented

PEDAL MOVEMENTS
   Swell Expression             (bal.)
   Crescendo                    (bal.)

ACTION: Tubular-Pneumatic key & stop to ventil chests
VOICES: 19
STOPS: 20
RANKS: 20
PIPES: 1,158

[Received on line from James R. Stettner June 28, 2009.]

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