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Balcom and Vaughan Pipe Organs, Inc. (1985)

St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church: Sanctuary
1500 Cobben
Butte, MT

Images

1994-08-08 - Console (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1994-08-08 - Console: manuals and stops (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
2 manuals
4 stops
19 registers
1 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 (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Computerized/Digital
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2005-11-20 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Moving, modernizing, and re-installation of 1937, II/4 M.P. Moller (Op. 6459) from St. Mary's R.C. Church in Butte. Console upgraded with Peterson solid state comb. action and stop action. Console prepared for future additions. New Peterson relay. 4-level memory added. -Database Manager

2007-04-28 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the console August 8, 1994 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Butte, Montana
St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church

M.P. Möller, Opus 6459. 1937
Balcom and Vaughan Pipe Organs, Inc., 1985 - Moving and Rebuild

GREAT (Expressive)
   8'   Principal                   61
   8'   Bourdon               (Sw)  --
   4'   Octave                      12   Extension of the 8' Prncipal.
   4'   Flute                 (Sw)  --
   2'   Octave                      --   From the Principal unit. 49 notes.
        blank
        blank
        Chimes                     (21)  Maas. Compass: Tenor A thru f 42.
        blank
        blank
        blank
   8'   Oboe                  (Sw)  --

SWELL (Expressive)
   8'   Salicional                  61
        blank
   8'   Bourdon                     61
        blank
   4'   Flute                       12   Extension of the 8' Bourdon.
   2'   Flute                       --   From the Bourdon unit. 49 notes.
   8'   Oboe                        61
        Tremulant
   Swell to Swell 16'
   Swell to Swell 4'

PEDAL (Expressive)
   16'  Soubasse              (Sw)  12   Extension of the 8' Bourdon.
   8'   Principal             (Gt)  --
   8'   Bourdon               (Sw)  --
   4'   Octave                (Gt)  --
   4'   Flute                 (Sw)  --
        blank
   8'   Oboe                  (Sw)  --
   4'   Oboe                  (Sw)  --

COUPLERS
   Swell to Pedal                  8
   Great to Pedal                  8
   Swell to Great               16,8,4

FINGER PISTONS
   General                      1 - 10
   Set
   Can

FOOT LEVERS
   Gt. to Ped. Reversible        (rev)

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

MEMORY (Rotary Dial)
   Single memory, 4-levels     A,B,C,D

ACTION: E-P unit chests
VOICES: 4
STOPS: 19; inc. chimes
RANKS: 4
PIPES: 280

NOTES
This Moller was originally built for St. Mary's R.C. in Butte, which
ceased operations in the mid 1980's, and became the headquarters and
gift shop for the Association called Our Lady of the Rockies - named
after the large statue of the Virgin Mary overlooking the city of Butte
from the East.

The organ was removed from St. Marys by Balcom and Vaughan, rebuilt
with new Peterson solid state components, the pipework cleaned and
re-regulated, etc. It was reinstalled at St. John the Evangelist in
1985 in a chamber on the left side of the chancel/altar. The chimes
are across the chancel on the right side.

The four ranks were originally called: Diapason, Lieblich Gedeckt,
Viole Dolce, and Oboe.

 [Received on line from James R. Stettner June 22, 2009.]

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