2014-08-08 - Altered and relocated existing organ. Identified by James R. Stettner, based on personal knowledge of the organ. -- -Database Manager
2014-08-09 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager
2014-11-20 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- During the course of the initial installation, we decided to replace the Moller console with a 1960 Balcom and Vaughan console in our inventory which utilized the same behind-the-key stop slides, but with an all-electric action. This console actually afforded a larger stoplist than the Moller console. The Balcom and Vaughan console was previously attached to the Smith organ at Calvary Lutheran Church in Ballard (Seattle). -Database Manager
Stoplist copied from the console December 6, 2015 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Marysville, Washington
St. Philip's Episcopal Church
M.P. MÖLLER, Opus 8267, 1951
Puget Sound Pipe Organs, 2014 - Moving & Reinstallation
GREAT (Expressive) SWELL (Expressive) PEDAL (Expressive)
16 Open Diapason 16 Bourdon 16 Bourdon
8 Open Diapason 8 Open Diapason 16 Gedeckt
8 Gedeckt 8 Gedeckt 8 Open Diapason
8 Salicional 8 Salicional 8 Flute
8 Dulciana blank 8 Cello
4 Octave 8 Dulciana 5-1/3 Quint
4 Flute 4 Flute 4 Octave
4 Salicet 4 Salicet 2 Super Octave
4 Dulcet 2-2/3 Nazard 8 Trumpet
2-2/3 Twelfth 2 Piccolo
2 Fifteenth 8 Trumpet
8 Trumpet Tremolo
Chimes
STOP / RANK / PIPE ANALYSIS
16 Open Diapason (Gt) -- Tenor C. From the 8' Open Diapason.
16 Bourdon (Sw/Ped) 12 Extension of the 8' Gedeckt.
16 Gedeckt (Ped) -- Same as the 16' Bourdon. Notes 1-12 on
soft wind.
8 Open Diapason (Gt/Sw/Ped) 61
8 Gedeckt (Gt/Sw) 61
8 Flute (Ped) -- Same as the 8' Gedeckt.
8 Salicional (Gt/Sw) 61
8 Cello (Ped) -- Same as the 8' Salicional.
Blank
8 Dulciana (Gt/Sw) -- Not being used.
5-1/3 Quint (Ped) -- From the Open Diapason unit.
4 Octave (Gt/Ped) 12 Extension of the 8' Open Diapason.
4 Flute (Gt/Sw) 12 Extension of the 8' Gedeckt.
4 Salicet (Gt/Sw) 12 Extension of the 8' Salicional.
4 Dulcet Not being used.
2-2/3 Twelfth (Gt) -- From the Open Diapason unit. Notes 55 -
61 from the 2-2/3' Nazard.
2-2/3 Nazard (Sw) 7 Extension of the 8' Gedeckt.
2 Fifteenth (Gt) -- From the Open Diapason unit. Notes 50 -
61 from the 2' Piccolo.
2 Super Octave (Ped) -- From the Open Diapason unit.
2 Piccolo (Sw) 5 Extension of the 8' Gedeckt.
8 Trumpet (Gt/Sw/Ped) 61 Harmonic.
Tremolo (Sw) Affects the entire instrument.
PIPE SUMMARY
Open Diapason Gedeckt Salicional Trumpet
73 pipes 97 pipes 85 pipes 73 pipes
PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Expression (bal.)
Crescendo (bal.)
ACTION: E-P unit VOICES: 4 STOPS: 28 RANKS: 4 PIPES: 328
NOTES
This organ was originally built for and installed in First Baptist Church in Bremerton,
Washington. It was a custom chambered installation without the Möller “Artiste” self-
contained case.
In 1961, the organ was listed for sale, and subsequently sold to St. Andrew's Episcopal
Church in Tacoma where it was reinstalled in a constructed rear gallery chamber by Pacific
Lutheran University Professor and organ technician Dr. R. Byard Fritts. It served there
until 2014 when St. Andrew's purchased a used 2-manual Paul Fritts tracker from Grace
Lutheran in Tacoma. The Möller had to go quickly because there was asbestos tile abatement
to be done in the gallery before the Fritts could be reinstalled.
The organ was given to Puget Sound Pipe Organs of Stanwood, Washington who found a home for
it here at St. Philip's before it was even removed. It came straight from St. Andrew's to
St. Philip's in three trailer loads in August of 2014. Installation began in September. The
organ pipes were washed. Both regulators were releathered. The Trumpet pipes had their
shallots and reed tongues polished. New twill tape was installed in all scallop racks. All
new NEC-compliant wiring was installed. A new, free-standing chamber was built by Puget
Sound Pipe Organs to house the instrument at the rear of the nave. A used Balcom and Vaughan
console from PSPO inventory was installed in-place of the original Möller console which was
air-driven and in need of restoration or conversion. The stoplist was almost identical,
though the 2' Viole Fifteenth and 4' Clarion extension pipes are not used in the Balcom and
Vaughan console specification.
The blower proved to be problematic, and had to be re-wound when one of the windings broke
and shorted against the interior frame of the metal motor housing.
The church hopes to enlarge the organ in the future which will include converting the orig-
inal Moller console to solid state, and adding another 5-rank Möller chest from PSPO inven-
tory, and for which a chest frame has already been installed.
The organ was dedicated November 20, 2014 with organist Mike Gagnon, guest organist and
Marysville resident Halden Toy, the choir of St. Aidan's Episcopal on Camano Island under
the direction of Steve Jensen, and a trio group called Affetuoso.
Sources: M.P. Möller opus list, JRS, extant organ
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