Better Pipe Organ Database

M. P. Möller Opus 7088 (1944)

St. John's Episcopal Church
15 N. Idaho
Butte, MT

Images

Unknown - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: historicmt.org, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

1996-11-01 - Great & Choir Pipework (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1996-11-01 - Great & Choir Pipework with Pedal Extensions (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1996-11-01 - Swell Pipework and Pedal 16' Bourdon (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
3 manuals
10 stops
28 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
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: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2005-11-21 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Moller installed in chamber formerly occupied by previous ca. 1922 Hook & Hastings. Console also in same alcove as previous console. Replacement console and tonal changes in 2005 by Clinton B. Meadway of Monroe, Washington assisted by Jim Stettner of Seattle, Washington. -Database Manager

2006-10-25 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

Butte, Montana
St. John's Episcopal Church

M.P. Möller, Opus 7088, 1944 - Original Specifications

GREAT (Expressive w/CH)
   8'     Open Diapason             73
   8'     Flute Harmonique    (Ch)  --
   8'     Gemshorn            (Ch)  --
   4'     Octave                    73
   4'     Flute               (Ch)  --
   4'     Gemshorn            (Ch)  --
          blank drawknob 
          Tremolo
          Chimes                    --   Prepared-for.
   Great 16
   Great Unison
   Great 4

SWELL (Expressive)
   16'    Bourdon                   12   Extension of the 8' Stopped Flute.
   8'     Stopped Flute             61
   8'     Salicional                61
   8'     Vox Celeste         (tc)  61
   4'     Orchestral Flute          12   Extension of the 8' Stopped Flute.
   4'     Salicet                   12   Extension of the 8' Salicional.
   2-2/3' Twelfth                   --   Derived from the Stopped Flute unit.
   2'     Piccolo                   12   Extension of the 8' Stopped Flute.
   8'     Trumpet                   73
          blank drawknob
          Tremolo
   Swell 16
   Swell Unison
   Swell 4

CHOIR (Expressive w/GT)
   8'     Flute                     73   Harmonique.
   8'     Gemshorn                  61
   4'     Flute                     12   Extension of the 8' Flute.
   4'     Gemshorn                  12   Extension of the 8' Gemshorn.
   2-2/3' Gemshorn                  --   Derived from the Gemshorn unit.
   2'     Gemshorn                  12   Extension of the 8' Gemshorn.
   1-3/5' Gemshorn                  --   Derived from the Gemshorn unit. 57 notes.
          blank drawknob
          Tremolo
   Choir 16
   Choir Unison
   Choir 4

PEDAL (Expressive)
   16'    Open Diapason       (Gt)  12   Extension of the 8' Open Diapason.
   16'    Bourdon                   32   In the Swell chamber.
   16'    Lieblich Gedeckt    (Sw)  --
   8'     Major Flute               12   Extension of the 16' Bourdon.
   8'     Flute Dolce         (Sw)  --
          blank drawknob

COUPLERS 
   Swell to Pedal                [8],4
   Great to Pedal                [8],4
   Choir to Pedal                [8]
   Swell to Great             16,[8],4
   Choir to Great             16,[8],4
   Swell to Choir             16,[8],4

FINGER PISTONS
   Full Organ                    1 - 6
   Swell                         1 - 6
   Great                         1 - 6
   Choir                         1 - 6
   Pedal                         1 - 6

TOE STUDS
   Gt. to Ped. Reversible        (rev)
   Sforzando Reversible          (rev)
   To Set Combinations

PEDAL MOVEMENTS
   Swell Expression             (bal.)
   Gt/Ch Expression             (bal.)
   Crescendo                    (bal.)

ACTION: E-P pitman & unit
VOICES; 10
STOPS: 28
RANKS: 10
PIPES: 737

NOTES
The Möller is installed in two chambers on the right side of the chancel -
the same two chambers previously occupied by the previous 1922 Hook &
Hastings instrument.  The console is placed in a virtual cubicle beneath
the Great/Choir chamber. Three steps up provide access to the console, and
with the doors closed - the organst is not visible to the congregation. A
small window to the left provides the organist with a view of the altar.

The Möller was a memorial gift, and a dedicatory plaque reads simply:

                    In Memoriam
               Charles Edgar Youlder
                    1874 - 1940

The top 7 pipes of the Choir 4' Flute, Choir 2' Gemshorn, Swell 2'
Piccolo, and Great 4' Octave all break back an octave in pitch.

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

Documents

(1944-07-06) Factory specifications Stoplist and accessories -Jeff Scofield

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#19659 - Clinton B. Meadway (2005)