Better Pipe Organ Database

Wm. A. Johnson (1860 ca.)

Residence: Don T. Stagg
4079 H Street Rd.
Blaine, WA

Images

2016-10-10 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1992-05-31 - Organ (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1992-05-31 - Facade; some pipes removed showing interior pipes (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1992-05-31 - Recessed keydesk (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1992-05-31 - Key action and left stop action (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1992-05-31 - Non-original pedalboard (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
1 manuals
11 stops
10 registers
2 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: None

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1990. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Organ was at Episcopal Church, Dillon, MT in 1940. Later in church in Townsend, MT. Moved here from previous Stagg res. in Canada. -Database Manager

2005-07-09 - On-line update from James R. Stettner -- The organ was replaced at St. James Epis. in Dillon in the 1940s by a Moller "Artiste" that still exists. The organ was next moved to St. John's Episcopal in Townsend, Montana, and it was from here that it was acquired by Don Stagg when he was living with his family in Butte, Montana. -Database Manager

2007-10-23 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- As originally built, the expression mechanism would have been hitch-down, and the Pedal compass would have been 12-notes. At an unknown time in the organ's past, the original pedalboard was replaced with a 27-note pedalboard and the expression mechanism was changed to a balanced system. As installed in Mr. Stagg's home, the expression box has been removed and is safely in storage. The original Mixture and Trumpet are missing. The organ has several non-original stop labels. The bottom octave of the 8' Open Diapason is of stopped wood. Mr. Stagg also has the organ playing on slightly lower than its original pressure. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed Stoplist from Jim Stettner Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Residence: Donald R. Stagg,  Blaine, Washington
ca. 1860, William A. Johnson

STOPLIST

MANUAL (Expressive; CC - g3: 56 notes)

  [8]      Diapason              56   1-12 s.w.; 13-24 zinc;
                                      25-61 c.m.  Non-original 
                                      label.

   8  Ft.  Melodia         (tc)  44   13-24 s.w.; 25-56 o.w. 
                                      w/c.m. flaps.

   8  Ft.  Dulciana        (tc)  44   13-17 zinc; 18-56 c.m., 
                                      slotted.

  [8]      Diapason Bass         12   Stopped Wood.  Non-original 
                                      label.

   4  Ft.  Principal             56   1-12 zinc; 13-56 c.m.

   4  Ft.  Flute           (tc)  44   13-44 c.m. chimney flutes 
                                      with soldered caps and 
                                      tuning ears; 45-56 c.m.  
                                      open.

2-2/3 Ft.  Twelfth               56   1-56 c.m.

  [2]      Piccolo               56   1-56 c.m. Pipes labeled 
                                      "15". Non-original label.

   3 Rks   Mixture              112   All c.m.  Actually only 
                                      II-ranks. Missing.

   8 Ft.   Trumpet               56   1-?? reeds; ??-56 c.m. 
                                      open. Missing.

           Tremulant                  Beater type affecting all 
                                      manual stops.


PEDAL (CCC - d 27; 27 notes)

 [16]      Bourdon               27   Stopped wood. Non-original 
                                      label.

           Bellows Signal             Non-original label.


COUPLER (Drawknob)

   Pedal Coupler                      [Man. to Ped.]


PEDAL MOVEMENTS

   Expression             Balanced    Originally hitch-down.



ACTION: Mechanical key and stop

VOICES: 10

STOPS: 11

RANKS: 11

PIPES: 566




James R. Stettner, Seattle, Washington, 2007.

Documents

(2007-11-06) Notes History and Description by Jim Stettner -Database Manager

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