Better Pipe Organ Database

Robert Morton Organ Co. Opus 2546 (1929)

First Church of Christ, Scientist / Seventh-day Adventist Church
500 South Fifth Street
Watertown, WI

Images

2016-04-01 - Church Exterior (Photograph by David Bohn/Database Manager)

2016-04-01 - Pedal and Swell Stopkeys (Photograph by David Bohn/Database Manager)

2016-04-01 - Great Stopkeys (Photograph by David Bohn/Database Manager)

2016-04-01 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by David Bohn/Database Manager)

2016-04-01 - Swell Shades (Photograph by David Bohn/Database Manager)

2016-04-01 - Great Pipework (Wald Flute and Clarabella) (Photograph by David Bohn/Database Manager)

2016-04-01 - Great Pipework (Dulciana and Diapason) (Photograph by David Bohn/Database Manager)

2016-04-01 - Swell Pipework (Photograph by David Bohn/Database Manager)

2016-04-01 - Setterboard (Photograph by David Bohn/Database Manager)

2016-04-01 - Builder's Nameplate on Great windchest (Photograph by David Bohn/Database Manager)

2016-04-01 - Console (Photograph by David Bohn/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
2 manuals
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 (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Setterboard
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2014-08-04 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by David Bohn, based on personal knowledge of the organ. -- Church now Watertown Seventh Day Adventist Church. -Database Manager

2014-08-09 - Updated through online information from David Bohn. -Database Manager

2016-04-14 - Updated through online information from David Bohn. <br>Aeoline replaced by tenor c Vox Humana in 1936; work done by the Schaefer Organ Company. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from Console, April 1, 2016 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

First Church of Christ, Scientist
Watertown, Wisconsin

Robert Morton opus 2546, 1929

Great
 8' Diapason (61 pipes)
 8' Clarabella (61 pipes)
 8' Dulciana (61 pipes)
 4' Wald Flute (61 pipes)
    Chimes (20 tubes)
16' Great
 4' Great
16' Swell
 8' Swell
 4' Swell

Swell
 8' Gedeckt (73 pipes)
 8' Salicional (73 pipes)
 8' Aeoline (73 pipes) (replaced 1936 with a tenor c Vox Humana)
 8' Oboe and Bassoon (73 pipes)
 4' Amabile Flute (73 pipes)
16' Swell
 4' Swell

Pedal
16' Pedal Flute (32 pipes)
 8' Flute (ext., no pipes)
 8' Great
 8' Swell

Tremolo (general)
Swell Unison Off (tablet in right key cheek)
Great Unison Off (tablet in right key cheek)

4 pistons to Swell and Pedal
4 pistons to Great and Pedal
Great to Pedal Reversible toe

General Expression Pedal
Register Crescendo

 [Received from David Bohn 2016-04-05.]