Better Pipe Organ Database

Olympic Organ Builders Opus 13 (1971)

St. Madeleine-Sophie Catholic Church: Sanctuary
4400 130th Place S.E.
Bellevue: Newport Hills, WA

Images

1998-08-03 - Organ case (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1998-08-03 - Keydesk and stops (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1998-08-03 - Left stopjamb: Swell & Pedal (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1998-08-03 - Right stopjamb: Great (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1998-08-03 - Expression pedal and hitch-down couplers (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
8 stops
8 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: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: No Enclosed Divisions
Combination action: None
Has hitchdown couplers

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1971. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - 2nd manual prepared. -Database Manager

2010-07-02 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- As originally built, the Great and only the Pedal 16' Subbass were installed. The balance of the Pedal and the Swell are prepared-for. The facade is 5-sectional with 45 pipes arranged: 7-9-13-9-7. -Database Manager

2021-01-12 - Date conflict: This had to have been built and installed prior to 1971, as Boeing lost a huge contract and OOB ceased construction in late 1969. -- Information from Jim Ludden -Paul R. Marchesano

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist copied from the console August 3, 1998

Bellevue: Newport Hills, Washington
St. Madeleine-Sophie Catholic Church

OLYMPIC ORGAN BUILDERS, Opus 13, 1971 - Original Specifications


MANUAL I                                     COUPLERS (h-d; labeled; l-r)
8'     Principal                 56          P + II
8'     Rohrflöte                 56          P + I
4'     Octave                    56
2'     Flachflöte                56          II + I
II     Sesquialtera             112
IV     Mixture                  224
8'     Trompete                  56          FOOT LEVERS (h-d; labeled; l-r)
                                             P + II
                                             P + I
MANUAL II
8'     Spitzflöte        (prep)  –-          II + I      
8'     Celeste           (prep)  --
4'     Koppelflöte       (prep)  --
2'     Principal         (prep)  –-          FINGER PISTONS
1 1/3' Quint             (prep)  –-          None    
8'     Krummhorn         (prep)  --
       Tremolo
                                             TOE STUDS
                                             None

PEDAL
16'    Sub Bass                  32          PEDAL MOVEMENTS
8'     Principal         (prep)  –-          Expression                    (bal.)
4'     Choral Bass       (prep)  --
16'    Fagott            (prep)  –


ACTION: Mech Key & Stop     VOICES: 8     STOPS: 8     RANKS: 12     PIPES: 648

NOTES
The organ is located behind the altar in this "church in the round" style
sanctuary. The 5-sectional façade contains 45 pipes arranged: 7-9-13-9-7.
The keydesk is attached and projecting.

Sources: JRS; extant, altered organ

St. Madeleine-Sophie Church
4400 130th Place SE
Bellevue,  WA.  98006
(425) 747-6770                               Documented: August 3, 1998