2014-04-19 - Organ Case (Photograph by Keith Himmelreich/Database Manager)
2014-04-19 - Balcony and Organ Case (Photograph by Keith Himmelreich/Database Manager)
2014-04-19 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Keith Himmelreich/Database Manager)
2004-10-30 - The original builder was Hook-Hastings Co. (Opus 2063, 1905). -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1965. -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Electrified in 1939 by Balcom and Vaughan. Rebuilt and augmented in 1965 by Balcom and Vaughan. -Database Manager
2009-10-09 - Updated through online information from Christopher Rini. -Database Manager
2023-06-30 - It's unlikely the electrification was done in 1939, unless it was redone in 1965. The key action has had E-P primaries grafted onto the external inflate-to-play Hook-Hastings actions (which, amazingly enough, exhaust the internal pallet pull-down pneumatics). The added key actions are consistent with Balcom & Vaughan's style of work from the 60's, not the 30's, and the supply-house console is also from that era. The console is not detached, but was simply shoved into the gap in the case created when the original keydesk was removed and discarded. -Joe O'Donnell
2023-12-18 - In 2023 Bond Organ Builders replaced the increasingly unreliable combination action and coupler switching with a new solid-state system. Most of the blank tabs were eliminated and one tab was repurposed to restore the independent stop action for the Swell Bourdon bass. The chimes, which had played an octave low on the Swell, now play from the Great in the customary range. -Joe O'Donnell
Source: Stoplist copied from the console July 19, 1996 (Stettner) and Winter 1999 (Rini)
Missoula, Montana
St. Francis Xavier RC Church
Hook & Hastings, Opus 2063, 1905
Balcom and Vaughan, 1939 - Electrification
Balcom and Vaughan, 1965 - Rebuild & Enlargement
GREAT COUPLERS
8' Open Diapason 61 * Swell to Pedal 8,4
8' Melodia 61 * Great to Pedal 8,4
8' Viola 61 *
4' Octave 61 * Swell to Great 16,8,4
4' Flute 61 *
8' Trumpet 61
blank FINGER PISTONS
blank General 1 - 6
blank Swell 1 - 4
Great 1 - 4
Great to Great 16' Gt. to Ped. (rev)
Great Unison Off Pedal 1 - 4
Great to Great 4' Sforz. (rev)
G.C.
SWELL (Expressive)
16' Bourdon (tc) 49 * TOE STUDS
8' Geigen Diapason 61 * Gt. to Ped. (rev)
8' Salicional 61 * Sforz. (rev)
8' Voix Celeste 61 *
8' Gedeckt 61 *
4' Harmonic Flute 61 * PEDAL MOVEMENTS
4' Violina 61 * Swell Expression (bal.)
IV Mixture [15-17-19-22] 244 * Crescendo (bal.)
8' Cornopean 61 *
8' Oboe 61 *
Tremolo
Chimes (__)
Swell to Swell 16'
Swell Unison Off
Swell to Swell 4'
PEDAL ACTION: Electro-pneumatic slider
16' Open Diapason 27 * Electro-pneumatic unit
16' Bourdon 32 *
10 ⅔ Quint (Bour) -- VOICES: 19
8' Flute (Bour) --
blank STOPS: 24; inc. chimes
4' Choral Bass 32
2' Fifteenth (CB) 12 RANKS: 22
IV Mixture [12-15-19-22] (CB) --
blank PIPES: 1,262
NOTES
Stops marked with an sterisk (*) are known to be original Hook & Hastings
pipework.
[Received on line from Christopher Rini October 09, 2009.]
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