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Marceau & Associates (2016)

Trinity Reformed Church: Sanctuary; front/right
101 Palouse River Dr.
Moscow, ID

Images


2017-12-09 - Console: Pedal stops (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2017-12-09 - Console: Swell stops (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2017-12-09 - Console: Great stops (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2017-12-09 - Console (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2017-12-09 - Console and facade (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2017-12-09 - Organ in front, right corner (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2017-12-09 - Organ at far, right end of the sanctuary (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

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Stoplist

Source: Stoplist copied from the console December 9, 2017

Moscow, Idaho
Trinity Reformed Church

KEATES ORGAN CO., ca. 1971
Marceau & Associates, 2016 - Rebuild, Tonal Revision,
                             Replacement console - 1st Phase


GREAT                        SWELL                        PEDAL
8'     Principal             16'    Rohr Bass             16'    Bass
8'     Rohr Flute            8'     Rohr Flute            8'     Principal
4'     Oct                   8'     Quintadena            8'     Rohr Flute     
4'     Rohr Flute            4'     Oct                   4'     Oct
2'     Oct                   4'     Block Flute           4'     Rohr Flute
2'     Block Flute           2-2/3  12th                  2'     Oct
                             2'     Block Flute
                             1-3/5  17th
                                    Tremulant

                             Swell 16
                             Swell Unison Off
                             Swell 4


STOP / RANK / PIPE ANALYSIS
16'    Bass                 (Ped)  12   Extension of the 8' Rohr Flute.
16'    Rohr Bass             (Sw)  –-   Same as the 16' Bass.
8'     Principal         (Gt/Ped)  56   1 - 11 en façade.
8'     Rohr Flute     (Sw/Gt/Ped)  56
8'     Quintadena            (Sw)  56
4'     Oct            (Sw/Gt/Ped)  56      
4'     Rohr Flute        (Gt/Ped)  12   Extension of the 8' Rohr Flute.
4'     Block Flute           (Sw)  –-   1-12 from 4' Rohr Flute. 13-56 from 2'
                                           Block Flute.
2-2/3  12th                  (Sw)  56
2'     Oct               (Gt/Ped)  12   Extension of the 4' Oct.    
2'     Block Flute        (Sw/Gt)  56
1-3/5  17th                  (Sw)  50   Begins on bass FF#.


PIPE SUMMARY

Principal             Rohr Flute            Quintadena            Octave
56 pipes              80 pipes              56 pipes              68 pipes


Twelfth               Block Flute           Seventeenth
56 pipes              56 pipes              50 pipes


ACTION: E-P unit      VOICES: 7      STOPS: 20      RANKS: 7      PIPES: 422


COUPLERS                                     FINGER PISTONS
Swell to Pedal                    8          General                       1 – 3
Great to Pedal                    8          Swell                         1 – 3
                                             Great                         1 – 3
Swell to Great                    8

                                             TOE STUDS
PEDAL MOVEMENTS                              Pedal                         1 - 3
Swell Expression   [unused]  (bal.)          Gr. to Ped.   [label gone]    (rev)
Crescendo                    (bal.)          Full Organ                    (rev)



NOTES
As indicated by Marceau employee Sean Haley on a related OHS Database account,
this instrument started as a small 3-stop unit organ by Keates of London, Ont-
ario, Canada. The original installation location for this organ is unknown but
was likely a practice or residence organ. A low ceiling in its original location
imposed the need to start the compass of the 8' Principal and 16' Gedeckt further
up the scale (note 4 or 5) with the remaining bass notes being stopped wooden
pipes for the 8'  Principal and quinted basses for the 16' Rohr Bass. 

It was brought and installed at Trinity Reformed at no charge to the church
reportedly by the same individual that installed a relocated a Balcom & Vaughan
organ at American Reformed Church in Lynden, WA. This is believed to have been
Hugo Spilker.

The organ was virtually unplayable and the installation poorly executed. The
original Keates direct valve chest and offsets were retained and other chests
including one made of various sorts of exterior grade plywood curiously con-
structed and arranged had been added. The incredibly large, square, 2-manual
drawknob console with interior relay switching was quite worn.

Marceau Pipe Organ Builders were contracted in 2016 to perform a 3-phase over-
haul and improvement of the organ. The first phase was re-configuring the organ
space, building simple attractive walls to encase the pipes, provide a simple
facade from the 8' Principal, install good used and rebuilt Balcom and Vaughan
Kilgen-style E-P unit chests; and provide a replacement console. This was a
used 1969 Casavant console (Opus 3001) originally built for Christ Episcopal
Church in Lake Oswego, Oregon. The manual compass is 56-notes. Phase 2 will be
a solid state relay and console upgrade which is hoped to happen in 2018. And
the final phase will be the addition of an expressive Swell division.


Sources: Phone conversation with Rene Marceau on Saturday, December 9, 2017;
         JRS; extant organ visited December 9, 2017.


Trinity Reformed Church
101 Palouse River Dr.
Moscow, ID. 83843                            Documented: December 9, 2017

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