Better Pipe Organ Database

Kilgen Organ Co. Opus 7461 (1950)

First Church of Christ, Scientist
229 N. Montana
Butte, MT

Images

2005-11-15 - Console (Photo by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

2005-11-15 - Manuals & stops (Photo by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
2 manuals
16 stops
5 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2005-11-21 - Identified through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- Organ installed in chamber on front wall, left corner. Console dirctly beneath chamber opening with organist facing across reader's platform. 5 ranks: Diapason, Gedeckt, Salicional, Dulciana, and independent 16-8-4 Pedal Bourdon unit. Chimes present but presently not playing. Static regulator in dire shape. Generator brushes cleaned by Meadway & Stettner Nov. 2005 during service call. Holes in static regulator also patched. -Database Manager

2005-11-23 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the console August 4, 1994 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Butte, Montana
First Church of Christ, Scientist

KILGEN ORGAN, The Kilgen Organ Company, Opus 7461, 1950 - Original Specifications

GREAT (Expressive)
   8'     Diapason                  61
   8'     Gedeckt             (Sw)  --
   8'     Dulciana                  61
          blank
   4'     Flute d'Amour       (Sw)  --
   4'     Dulcet                    12
          Chimes   (A 22 - e 41)   (20)

   Great to Great 16'
   Unison Off
   Great to Great 4'


SWELL (Expressive)
          blank
   8'     Gedeckt                   61
   8'     Salicional                61
          blank
   4'     Flute d'Amour             12   Extension of the 8' Gedeckt.
   2-2/3' Nasard                    --   From the Gedeckt unit.
   2'     Flautino                  12   Extension of the 8' Gedeckt.
   8'     Orchestral Oboe           --   Synthetic. Derived from the 8'
                                         Sal. and the 2-2/3' Nasard.
          Tremolo

   Swell to Swell 16'
   Unison Off
   Swell to Swell 4'


PEDAL (Expressive)
   16'    Bourdon                   32
          blank                     --
   8'     Bass Flute                12   Extension of the 16' Bourdon.
   8'     Gedeckt             (Sw)  --
   4'     Block Floete              12   Extension of the 16' Bourdon.


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


FINGER PISTONS
   General                       1 - 5
   Swell & Pedal                 1 - 5
   Great & Pedal                 1 - 5
   General Cancellor


TOE STUDS
   Gt. to Ped. Reversible        (rev)
   Sforz.                        (rev)


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

ACTION: E-P unit
VOICES: 5
STOPS: 16; inc. chimes
RANKS: 5
PIPES: 348

NOTES
The organ was installed for Kilgen by Balcom and Vaughan of Seattle, WA.


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