2006-01-02 - Identified through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager
2006-06-11 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- This instrument contains the Dulciana (revoiced as the Celeste), the Vox Humana (renamed Menschenstimme) and the 16'/8' stopped wood bass pipes from a 1928 Wicks of undocumented provenance installed 2nd-hand at First Methodist in Arlington, Washington in 1936. -Database Manager
Stoplist copied from the console in the 1990's Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Monroe, Washington
Monroe United Methodist Church
R. BYARD FRITTS, 1978 - Original Specifications
GREAT (Expressive) FINGER PISTONS
8 Principal 61 General 1 - 10
8 Rohr Flöte (Sw) --
8 Viola (Sw) --
4 Principal 12
2 Super Octave 12 FOOT LEVERS (Unlabeled)
1-1/3 Larigot (Sw) -- Full Organ (rev)
II Mixture (prep) --
8 Trumpet (prep) --
Chimes (a22 - e41) (20)
PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Expression (bal.)
SWELL (Expressive) Crescendo (bal.)
8 Rohr Flöte 61
8 Viola 61
8 Viola Celeste (tc) 49
4 Principal (Gt) --
4 Rohr Flöte 12
2-2/3 Nasard 61
2 Flute 12
8 Menschen Stimme 61
Tremulant
ACTION: D-E
PEDAL (Expressive) VOICES: 7
16 Bourdon 22
8 Principal (Gt) -- STOPS: 21; inc. chimes
8 Rohr Flöte (Sw) --
4 Flute (Sw) -- RANKS: 7
II Rausch Quinte (Gt/Sw) --
8 Menschen Stimme (Sw) -- PIPES: 424
NOTES
This instrument was created from pipes and components of various sources.
The console, main chest, and four ranks of pipes are new. These ranks are the 8'
Principal unit, 8' Rohr Flöte unit, 8' Viola, and 2⅔' Nasard unit.
The wind regulator, chimes, expression shutters, and three ranks of pipes are used.
These ranks are the 16' Bourdon, 8' Viola Celeste (Dulciana) and 8' Menschen Stimme
(Vox Humana). The used pipes and parts are from the 1928 or 1936 "Fuga" model Wicks
originally built for the Methodist Church in Arlington, WA. which was purchased for
this job for only $400.00. Other unused pipes and parts were presumably sold or
parted out by R. Byard Fritts.
The Pedal II Rausch Quinte is derived from the Principal and Nasard units. The Pedal
16' Bourdon borrows its top 10 notes from the 8' Rohr Flöte. The top 8ve of the Gt.
1-1/3 Larigot repeats. The prepared for Mixture on the Great is actually intended to
be bigger than the size indicated on the stop tablet. It starts as II ranks for 12
notes, then become III ranks for 12 notes; then become IV ranks for 19 notes; returns
to III ranks at g 44 for 12 notes, and at g 56 returns to II ranks for the last 6 notes.
Sources: EMN; JRS; extant organ
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