Better Pipe Organ Database

Unknown Builder (1938)

St. James Episcopal Church
203 E. Glendale St.
Dillon, MT

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
1 manuals
11 stops
10 registers
2 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: None

Notes

2004-10-30 - From? Moved to Townsend, MT, then to D. Stagg, Blaine, WA. [Stagg organ shown as 1m. w 27 note pedal.] Compass 56/30. -Database Manager

2005-11-21 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- Free-standing and encased with a recessed keydesk. Gothic case with crenelations. 3-sectional facade of gold-painted dummy pipes. Original pedal compass 12-notes. 30-note pedalboard added later with added pipes for original 16' Bourdon. Original home unknown. In 1938, here at St. James in Dillon. Replaced 1948 by II-man., 3-rank M.P. Möller. Moved by 1948. -Database Manager

2007-10-23 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- The original home and previous homes of this organ are unknown. It was installed here at St. James in Dillon in 1938. When replaced with a Möller in 1948, it was relocated to St. John's Episcopal in Townsend, Montana by an unknown person or firm where it served another 10 years before being replaced by a Hammond. It was acquired by Don Stagg of Butte and stored for many years. He restored it for his Vancouver, B.C. residence in the 1970s, and moved it to his home in Blaine, Washington when he moved in the 1980s. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the console May 31, 1992 in Blaine, WA. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Dillon, Montana
St. James Episcopal Church

William A. Johnson, ca. 1860


MANUAL (Expressive; CC - g3: 56 notes)

  [8]      Diapason              56   1-12 s.w.; 13-24 zinc; 25-61 c.m.
                                         Non-original label.

   8  Ft.  Melodia         (tc)  44   13-24 s.w.; 25-56 o.w. w/c.m. flaps.

   8  Ft.  Dulciana        (tc)  44   13-17 zinc; 18-56 c.m., slotted.

  [8]      Diapason Bass         12   Stopped Wood.  Non-original label.

   4  Ft.  Principal             56   1-12 zinc; 13-56 c.m.

   4  Ft.  Flute           (tc)  44   13-44 c.m. chimney flutes with soldered caps and 
                                      tuning ears; 45-56 c.m. open.

2-2/3 Ft.  Twelfth               56   1-56 c.m.

  [2]      Piccolo               56   1-56 c.m. Pipes labeled "15". Non-original label.

   3 Rks   Mixture              112   All c.m.  Actually only II-ranks.

   8 Ft.   Trumpet               56   1-?? reeds; ??-56 c.m. open.

           Tremulant                  Beater type affecting all manual stops.


PEDAL (CCC - d 27; 27 notes)

 [16]      Bourdon               27   Stopped wood. Non-original label.

           Bellows Signal             Non-original label.


COUPLER (Drawknob)

   Pedal Coupler                      [Man. to Ped.]


PEDAL MOVEMENTS

   Expression             Balanced    Originally hitch-down.



ACTION: Mechanical key and stop

VOICES: 10

STOPS: 11

RANKS: 11

PIPES: 566

 [Received from James R. Stettner 2014-01-07.]

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