Better Pipe Organ Database

Hutchings Organ Co. Opus 1705 (1912)

Consistory Shrine Temple: Scottish Rite/Algerian
Helena, MT

Images

2014-03-20 - Console (Photograph by Allen Dreyfuss/Database Manager)

2014-03-20 - Building exterior (Photograph by Allen Dreyfuss/Database Manager)

2014-03-20 - Building entrance with dated stone (Photograph by Allen Dreyfuss/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
3 manuals
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1980 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Cost $5000 + freight $400, installation $1600. Cleaned and repaired by volunteers supervised by Balcolm-Vaughan in 1983. -Database Manager

2014-07-28 - Updated through online information from Kent Brocklebank. -- Once the roll top is opened the organist must "push out" the wing stop jambs. Fantastic organ to play! -Database Manager

Stoplist

Played this organ June 2014 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Great                     Swell                     Choir                    Pedal

Diapason 8              Bourdon  16               Melodia 8               Diapason 16
Concert Flute 8         Diapason  8               Dulcissimo 8            Bourdon 16
Gamba 8                 Stopped Diapason 8        Flute d' Amour          Bass Flute (from Bourdon 16)
Octave 4                Violin 8                  Clarinet 8
Trumpet 8               Vox Celestis 8            Tremolo
                        Harmonic Flute 4
                        Mixture III
                        Oboe 8
                        Cornopean 8
                        Tremolo

Standard manual, inter manual and manual to pedal couplers

 [Received from Kent Brocklebank 2014-07-21.]