Better Pipe Organ Database

M. P. Möller Opus 6316 (1935)

Davis Memorial Baptist Church / First Baptist Church
103 N. 5th Street
Mount Vernon, WA

Images

2018-04-05 - Chamber Grillework and Pipe Facade (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

2018-04-05 - Console (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

2018-04-05 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

2018-04-05 - Console (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

2018-04-05 - Chancel and Facade Pipes (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
2 manuals
12 stops
24 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 (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 thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2006-01-02 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Church originally built as Davis Memorial Baptist Church. Changed name to First Baptist in the 1920s. Organ in side-by-side chambers on the front wall: Swell left, Great right. -Database Manager

2010-01-25 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

2014-03-06 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

2018-03-21 - Updated by James R. Stettner, who gave this as the source of the information: Phone conversation with parishioner named Jay on 3/20/2018. <br> I called to make an arrangement to go photograph the organ and was informed by 'Jay' that the building is for sale, and that the organ will not be relocated to the new location in Cascade, Washington. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the console March 29, 1993 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Mount Vernon, Washington
Davis Memorial Baptist Church (later, First Baptist)

M.P. Möller, Opus 6316, 1935 - Original Specifications

GREAT (Expressive - Right)
   8'     Open Diapason             73
   8'     Melodia                   73
   8'     Dulciana                  73
   4'     Octave                    73
   4'     Flute                     12   Extension of 8' Melodia
   8'     Cornopean                 73
          Tremolo
          Chimes                   (21)  Maas: tenor A thru f 42
   Great to Great 16'
   Great Unison Off
   Great to Great 4'

SWELL (Expressive - Left)
   16'    Echo Lieblich             12   Extension of 8' Stopped Flute
   8'     Geigen Diapason           73
   8'     Stopped Flute             61
   8'     Salicional                73
   8'     Voix Celeste        (tc)  61
   4'     Flute                     12   Extension of 8' Stopped Flute
   4'     Salicet                   12   Extension of 8' Salicional
   2-2/3' Nazard                     7   Extension of 8' Stopped Flute
   2'     Flautina                   5   Extension of 8' Stopped Flute
   8'     Oboe                      73
   8'     Vox Humana                73
          Tremolo
   Swell to Swell 16'
   Swell Unison Off
   Swell to Swell 4'

PEDAL (Expressive)
   32'    Acoustic Bass             --   From 16' Bourdon
   16'    Open Diapason       (Gt)  12   Extension of Gt. 8' Op. Diapason
   16'    Bourdon                   32
   16'    Echo Lieblich       (Sw)  --
    8'    Flute                     12   Extension of 16' Bourdon
          Chimes              (Gt)  --

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

FINGER PISTONS
   Swell & Pedal                 1 - 5
     Sw. to Ped.                 (rev)
   Great & Pedal                 1 - 5
     Gr. to Ped.                 (rev)
   SFZ                           (rev)
   Gen Can

FOOT LEVERS (Labeled; l - r)
   Chimes Sustainig  [sic]       (h-d)   Hitch-down
   Gr. to Ped. Reversible        (rev)
   Chimes F                      (rev)
   Sforzando                     (rev)

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

ACTION: Electro-Pneumatic
VOICES: 12
STOPS: 24; inc. chimes
RANKS: 12
PIPES: 883

[Received on line from James R. Stettner January 25, 2010.]