Better Pipe Organ Database

W. W. Kimball Co. (1908)

First Baptist Church
201 W. Broadway
Butte, MT

Images

1994-08-02 - Organ Case (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1994-08-02 - Keydesk (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1994-08-02 - Great Stopjamb (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1994-08-02 - Swell Stopjamb (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1994-08-02 - Couplers (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1994-08-02 - Foot Trundles and Expression Shoe (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

2007-04-21 - Organ (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
11 stops
12 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1985 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Renovated without tonal change by Kajkowski in 1984. Ventil chests. [OH 1984 indicates 2-13.] Couplers electrified. Tubular stop action restored. -Database Manager

2005-11-20 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Organ free-standing and encased on the elevated chancel platform. Quarter-sawn oak case. Keydesk attached and projecting. Organ ordered through Orton Bros. music store in Butte. Cost $2,500.00. First used at dedication of church April 12, 1908. Three-sectional facade containing 27 pipes arranged: 7 - 13 - 7, which includes the first 17 pipes of the Great 8' Open Diapason. Facade pipes restencilled in original patterns/colors by two parishioners during Kajkowski rebuild. Four combintions by fixed, mechanical iron foot levers: Swell Piano, Swell Forte, Great Piano, and Great Forte. Originally dedicated on April 29, 1908 by E. Russell Sanborn of Boston, MA. Organ re-dedicated in recital by Montana native, Earl L. Miller on Thursday, October 24, 1985. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the console August 2, 1994 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Butte, Montana
First Baptist Church

W. W. Kimball Co., 1908 - Original Specifications

GREAT
   8'  Open Diapason                61
   8'  Melodia                      61
   8'  Dulciana                     61
   4'  Flute Harmonic               61

SWELL (Expressive)
   16' Bourdon Treble               49
   16' Bourdon Bass                 12
   8'  Violin Diapason              61
   8'  Stop'd Diapason              61
   8'  Aeoline                      61
   4'  Flute d'Amour                61
   8'  Oboe & Bassoon               61
       Tremolo

PEDAL
   16' Bourdon                      30

COUPLERS (Drawknob over Sw. Keys)
   Great to Pedal                  [8]
   Swell to Pedal                  [8]

   Swell to Great                  [8] 
   Sw. to Gr. Super Octave         [4]
   Sw. to Gr. Sub Octave          [16]

   Swell Super Octave              [4]

FOOT LEVERS (labeled; l - r)
   Swell Piano  -  8' St. Diap., 8' Aeol.   (double-acting)

   Swell Forte  -  16,16,8,8,8,4,8 (full)   (double-acting)

   Great to Pedal                              (reversible)

   Great Piano  -  8' Mel., 8' Dulc.        (double-acting)

   Great Forte  -  8, 8, 8, 4 (full)        (double-acting) 

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

ACTION: T-P primary to ventil chests
VOICES: 11
STOPS: 12
RANKS: 11
PIPES: 640

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