Better Pipe Organ Database

Fritts-Richards Organ Builders Opus 4 (1984)

St. Alphonsus Catholic Church: Sanctuary; rear gallery
5816 15th Ave. NW
Seattle, WA

OHS convention: 2008

Images

2020-10-07 - Ruckpositiv case from below (Photograph by Halden Toy/Halden Toy)

2020-10-07 - Organ case in rear gallery (Photograph by Halden Toy/Halden Toy)

2008-07-18 - Organ (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2008-07-18 - Rueckpositiv (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2008-07-18 - Keydesk (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
31 stops
31 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: No Enclosed Divisions
Combination action: None

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1986. -Database Manager

2005-11-05 - Updated through online information from the builder's web site. -Database Manager

2006-10-21 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ was dedicated on Oct. 21, 1984 by David P. Dahl in a liturgy of Solemn Vespers and Benediction. The inaugural recital on the organ was performed by Carole Terry of the University of Washington on October 26, 1984. Wind is supplied from a large, single-fold, wedge bellows. A wind stabilizer is provided. Wind pressure is 83 mm. Tuning is Kirnberger III. Two stops/ranks were prepared-for: 4' Schalmey on the Ruckpositiv and 1' Bauernflote on the Pedal. -Database Manager

2015-12-01 - Updated through online information from Leslie F. DeLashmutt, Jr.. -Database Manager

Stoplist

From Paul Fritts website Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Saint Alphonsus Parish, Seattle, WA
1985 Paul Fritts & Company Opus 4

Hauptwerk:
16' Principal
8' Principal
8' Gedackt
8' Violdigamba
4' Octav
4' Rohrflöte
3' Quint
2' Octav
V Cornet Disk.
VI-VIII Mixtur
16' Trommet
8' Trommet

Rückpositiv:
8' Principal
8' Hohlflöte
4' Octav
4' Flöte
3' Naßat
2' Octav
2' Waldflöte
II Sexquialtera
IV-VI Scharff
16' Fagott
8' Dulcian
4' Schalmey (Preperation)

Pedal:
16' Subbaß
8' Octav
4' Octav
1' Bauernflöte (Preperation)
V-VI Mixtur
32' Posaunen
16' Posaunen
8' Trommet
2' Cornet

 [Received from Connor Annable 2011-11-15.]