Better Pipe Organ Database

Unknown Builder (1970's)

St. Mary's Catholic Church: Sanctuary; rear gallery
3673 County Highway P
Cross Plains, WI

Images

1954 - Church exterior in 1954 (Photograph from an archival source: Published parish history, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

1890 - Church exterior in 1890 (Photograph from an archival source: Parish website, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Unknown - Organ in rear gallery, July 1972. (Photograph by Rick Erickson/Database Manager)

Unknown - Organ case with keydesk, July 1972. (Photograph by Rick Erickson/Database Manager)

Unknown - Keydesk, July 1972. (Photograph by Rick Erickson/Database Manager)

Unknown - Pedalboard and composition pedals, July 1972. (Photograph by Rick Erickson/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
11 stops
11 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Has combination trundles

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1964 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Was in Lutheran, Mt. Horeb, WI ca1919. -Database Manager

2009-12-13 - Updated through online information from Aristotle A. Esguerra. -Database Manager

2011-01-22 - Updated through online information from Rick Erickson. -Database Manager

2013-04-03 - Updated through online information from Todd Phipps. -- Recent pictures on the church's Web site at www.stmarypb.com shows an organ and organ loft matching the one in the 1972 photos included here. St. Mary's web site indicates that a satellite church in another village was destroyed by a lightning strike many years ago and never rebuilt, but St. Mary of Pine Bluff is still there. -Database Manager

2014-03-29 - Updated through online information from Ben Yanke. -- The tremolo is now detached (though the stop is still there on the console), other than that, it's fantastic, kept up well, and in regular use at least once a week, often more. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist taken from console July 1972

Pine Bluff, Wisconsin
St. Mary's Catholic Church

Hinners, Opus 980, 1906

    GREAT Organ, Manual I
8'  Open Diapason                61
8'  Melodia                      61
8'  Dulciana                     49
4'  Principal                    61
4'  Flute D'Amour                61

    SWELL Organ, expressive, Manual II
8'  Violin Diapason              61
8'  Lieblich Gedeckt             61
8'  Salicional                   49
4'  Flute Traverse               61
8'  Oboe Gamba                   49
    Sw. Tremolo

    PEDAL Organ
16' Bourdon                      30

COUPLERS (Drawknob over Sw. keys)
Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal

Swell to Great
Swell Octave to Great

FOOT COMBINATION TRUNDLES
Swell Forte -
Swell Piano -
Great Forte -
Great Piano -

PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression             (bal.)

ACCESSORIES
Bellows signal

NOTES
-The Great Open Diapason basses are in the facade above the key desk.
-The Great Open Diapason, Dulciana, and Principal are of spotted metal.
-Both 4' flutes are of wood.
-The low 12 notes of the Dulciana are in common with the Melodia.
-The Swell Violin Diapason basses are in the facade to the right of the
   key desk, facing the nave.
-The low 12 notes of the Salicional and Oboe Gamba are in common with
   the Lieblich Gedeckt.

-The church, built in 1889, and the organ, were destroyed in a fire in
   the 1970s.

[Received from Rick Erickson 2011-01-22.]

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