Better Pipe Organ Database

J. W. Steere & Sons Opus 411 (1895)

St. Mark's Episcopal Church
601 Main St.
Anaconda, MT

Images

1999-01-01 - Original Steere E-P primary (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1999-01-01 - Great Stops (above) & Choir Stops (below) (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1999-01-01 - Swell Stops (above) & Pedal Stops (below) (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1999-01-01 - Builder's Stencil (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1999-01-01 - Façade (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1999-01-01 - Church exterior. (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: Console in Fixed Position, Right
3 manuals
22 stops
20 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1991 -Database Manager

2005-06-02 - From James R. Stettner: The stop action was Tubular-Pneumatic but was replaced with a D-E action to operate pneumatic motors attached to the trundle arms. This system was replaced with Kimber-Allen slider motors ca. 1999. -Database Manager

2005-06-02 - From James R. Stettner: The original chests are extant and are slider chests with a pneumatic primary that operates an enclosed, wedge-shaped pneumatic pull-down. The key action always was electric. -Database Manager

2007-12-31 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

2014-01-06 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the console September, 1994; also from extant original contract Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Anaconda, Montana
St. Mark's Episcopal Church

J.W. Steere & Son, Opus 411, 1896 - Original Specifications


GREAT (Expressive *)                         COUPLERS (Drawknob over Sw. keys)
   8  Gr.  Open Diapason            58          Swell to Pedal                  [8]
   8  Gr.  Dulciana.                58 *        Great to Pedal                  [8]
   8  Gr.  Melodia  Stopd Bass      58 *        Choir to Pedal                  [8]
   4  Gr.  Spitz Flute.             58 *
   2  Gr.  Fifteenth                58 *        Swell to Great                  [8]
   8  Gr.  Clarinet           (tc)  46 *        Swell to Great Octaves          [4]
                                                Choir to Great                  [8]

SWELL (Expressive)                              Swell to Choir                  [8]
   16 Sw.  Bourdon                  58
   8  Sw.  Open Diapason            46
   8  Sw.  Stopd Diapason           58       FOOT LEVERS (Labeled; l - r)
   8  Sw.  Salicional.              58          Swell Organ Piano
   8  Sw.  Aeoline.                 46          Swell Organ Forte
   4  Sw.  Violin.                  58          Gr. to Ped. Reversible
   4  Sw.  Flute Harmonique.        58          Full Organ
   2  Sw.  Flageolet.               58          Great Organ Forte
   8  Sw.  Oboe and Bassoon.        58          Great Organ Piano
           Tremolo to Swell.

                                             PEDAL MOVEMENTS
CHOIR (Expressive)                              Expression                   (bal.)
   8  Ch.  Viola d'Orchestre        58
   8  Ch.  Doppel Flote.  [sic]     58
   4  Ch.  Gemshorn                 58
   2  Ch.  Piccolo Harmonique       58       ACTION: E-P primary to slider chests
                                                     T-P stop action 
                                                     Mechanical comb. action
PEDAL (Expressive *)
   16 Ped. Sub Bass.  Bourdon       27       VOICES: 20          STOPS: 22
   16 Ped. Lieblich Gedackt   (Sw)  –- *
   8  Ped. Violoncello        (Ch)  –- *     RANKS: 20           PIPES: 1,087

   Blowers Signal.


NOTES
The contract was signed December 19, 1895, and the organ was to be delivered and
installed by Easter Sunday, 1896. The contract price was $3,500.00. The space in
which the organ was to be placed was the baptistery on the left side of the chancel.
It was shallow, and Steere ultimately requested an extension to change the key action
to electric to allow for greater compactness. The extension was granted.

The case is of quarter-sawn oak. The facade contains 35 stenciled pipes arranged:
12 – 1 – 12, of which 19 are from the Great 8' Open Diapason. As originally contracted
only the Swell and what was called Solo (renamed Choir) were to be expressive. But as
installed, all manual divisions were expressive save for the Great 8 Open Diapason. The
Pedal 16' Sub Bass is behind the enclosure.

The organ was purchased in honor of his wife by Anaconda copper baron Marcus Daly, and
was meant - in part - to up-stage his Butte competitor, Senator William H. Clark who had
purchased a 2-manual Hook and Hastings in honor of his wife which was installed at St.
John's Episcopal Church in Butte.

 [Received from James R. Stettner 2014-01-06.]