Better Pipe Organ Database

Geo. Kilgen & Son, Inc. Opus 6025 (1938)

St. Joseph's Catholic Church: Sanctuary; rear gallery
2nd & Utah
Butte, MT

Images

2000-02-22 - Pedal Bourdon (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

2000-02-22 - Swell pipework (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

2000-02-22 - Great pipework (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

2000-02-22 - Console (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

2000-02-22 - Harp (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
2 manuals
9 stops
17 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 Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2005-11-20 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Pipes in a chamber on the left side of the rear gallery when facing rear). Console centered outside single chamber containing both Great and Swell. 73-note chests. Some question of whether or not this instrument may have been relocated to St. Joseph's from the Rialto Theatre in Butte. Uncertain. Organ does not appear in David Junchen's <i>Encyclopedia of the American Theatre Organ</i> by opus number for Montana or any other state. Source: extant organ (8/3/1994). -Database Manager

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

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the console August 3, 1994 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Butte, Montana
St. Joseph's Catholic Church

KILGEN ORGAN, Geo. Kilgen & Son, Inc., Opus 6025, 1938 - Original Specifications

GREAT (Expressive)
   8'     Open Diapason             73
   8'     Melodia                   73
   8'     Dulciana                  73
   4'     Octave                    73
          Chimes                   (25)  Unknown make. Compass: Tenor G thru g 44.
  [4']    Harp                     (44)  Unknown make. Compass: Tenor C thru g 56.
   Great 16'
   Unison Off
   Great 4'

SWELL (Expressive)
   8'     Geigen Diapason           73
   8'     Stopped Diapason          73
   8'     Viola d'Gamba             73
   4'     Flute Harmonic            61
   2-2/3' Twelfth                   --   From the 4' Flute Harmonic unit.
   2'     Piccolo                   12   Extension of the 4' Flute Harmonic.
   8'     Oboe                      --   Synthetic. Derived from the 8' V d'G
          Tremolo                                   and the 2-2/3' Twelfth.
   Swell 16'
   Unison Off
   Swell 4'

PEDAL (Expressive)
   16'    Bourdon                   32
   16'    Lieblich Gedeckt    (Sw)  12
   8'     Flute                     12   Extension of the 16' Bourdon.
   8'     Still Gedackt       (Sw)  --

COUPLERS
   Swell 8'                 [to Pedal]
   Swell 4'                 [to Pedal]
   Great 8'                 [to Pedal]
   Great 4'                 [to Pedal]

   Swell 16'                [to Great]
   Swell 8'                 [to Great]
   Swell 4'                 [to Great]

FINGER PISTONS
   Swell & Pedal                 1 - 4
   Great & Pedal                 1 - 4

FOOT LEVERS
   Great Rev.    [to Pedal]      (rev)

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

ACTION: E-P primary & unit
VOICES: 9
STOPS: 17; inc. chimes & harp
RANKS: 9
PIPES: 640

 [Received on line from James R. Stettner June 26, 2009.]