Better Pipe Organ Database

Don Stagg (1960s)

Copper King Mansion: Third-Floor Ballroom
219 West Granite Street
Butte, MT

Images

2018-10-09 - Swelll and Crescendo (Photograph by Maria Gibbs/Database Manager)

2018-10-09 - Manuals and Stop Tabs (Maria Gibbs/Database Manager)

2018-10-09 - Original Bench (Maria Gibbs/Database Manager)

2006-06-20 - Organ Façade (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

2006-06-20 - Second view (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
2 manuals
15 stops
15 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1998 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - From Sacred Heart R.C. Church, Butte, Montana, ca. 1960s. In 1998, playable, but is generally not played because it knocks plaster from the ceiling. Scale of facade pipes is huge. Mansion now [1998] an elegant Bed & Breakfast. Built in 1894 by copper magnate William A. Clark. -Database Manager

2005-06-02 - From James R. Stettner: The organ would be in playable condition were it not for the plaster, which has fallen into the façade pipes. -Database Manager

2007-05-01 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The console is detached and reversed. -Database Manager

2007-06-19 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Moved from Sacred Heart by Butte native, Don Stagg, who owned several other organs in Butte and elsewhere in Montana. Resides now in Blaine, Washington with his one-manual Wm. A. Johnson tracker and a two-manual, ten-rank Estey. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the console June, 1994 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Butte, Montana
Copper King Mansion, B&B (former Res. of Senator William A. Clark).

Estey Organ Co., Opus 1184, 1913 - Original Specifications
Donald Stagg, 1960's - Reinstallation without tonal changes.

GREAT
   8'  Gr.  Open Diapason            61   1 - 17 en façade.
   8'  Gr.  Viol d'Gamba             61
   8'  Gr.  Clarabella               61
   8'  Gr.  Dulciana                 61
   4'  Gr.  Principal                61
   4'  Gr.  Harmonic Flute           61
   Great to Great 4'                            
  
SWELL (Expressive)
   16' Sw.  Bourdon            (tc)  49   1-12 from Ped. 16' Lieb. Ged.
   8'  Sw.  Violin Diapason          61
   8'  Sw.  Stopped Diapason         61
   8'  Sw.  Salicional               61
   8'  Sw.  Vox Celeste        (tc)  49
   4'  Sw.  Gemshorn                 61
   8'  Sw.  Oboe               (tc)  49   Labial.
       Sw.  Tremolo                                 
  
PEDAL
   16' Ped. Bourdon                  30
   16' Ped. Lieblich Gedeckt         30
 
COUPLERS
   Swell to Pedal                 [8]   
   Great to Pedal                 [8]   
   Swell to Great              16,[8],4
 
FINGER PISTONS (Mechanical)
   Swell & Pedal                  1 - 4
   Great & Pedal                  1 - 4
  
FOOT LEVERS
   REV      [Great to Pedal]      (rev)
  
PEDAL MOVEMENTS
   Swell Expression              (bal.)
   Crescendo                     (bal.)

ACTION: Tubular-Pneumatic key & stop; ventil chests
VOICES: 15
STOPS: 15
RANKS: 15
PIPES: 817
  
Notes
The organ was originally built for Sacred Heart Church in Butte. When the
church was razed in 1965, the Cote family who managed the Copper King
Mansion (Senator William H. Clarke's home) purchased the organ and had it
installed in the 3rd floor ballroom of the mansion. The installation was
done by Butte native and organ enthusiast Don Stagg.

The organ is free-standing and encased, and the console is detached and
reversed. The first 17 pipes of the Great 8' Open Diapason are in the
façade which contains __ pipes.

The bottom octave of the Swell 16' Bourdon is borrowed from the Pedal 16'
Lieblich Gedeckt.

 [Received on line from James R. Stettner June 22, 2009.]