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Balcom and Vaughan Pipe Organs, Inc. (1992)

St. Thomas Catholic Church: Sanctuary; rear gallery
919 Indiana Avenue
Coeur d'Alene, ID

Images

1992-08-11 - 1975 console after solid state conversion (Photo by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1992-08-11 - Great pipework (f-b); 4' Flute d'Amour, 8' Dulciana, 8' Melodia, 8' Diapason (Photo by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1992-08-11 - Great pipework (l-r); 8' Melodia, 8' Dulciana, 4' Flute d'Amour, 2' Octave, Mixture (Photo by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1992-08-11 - Swell pipework (Photo by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1992-08-11 - Pedal 8' Diapason (original Mudler Hunter Great 8' O.D.) (Photo by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
2 manuals
27 stops
18 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - The original builder was Mudler-Hunter Co. (1923). -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1999. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - New slider chests and tonal revisions. -Database Manager

2006-11-04 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

2007-05-14 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the console October 26, 1992 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
St. Thomas R.C. Church

MUDLER-HUNTER CO., Inc., Opus ___, 1923
Balcom and Vaughan, Opus 814 RB, 1975 - Tonal Revisions & New Klann Console
Balcom and Vaughan Pipe Organs, Inc., SC ___, 1992 - "Tonal Revisions & New Slider Chests


GREAT (Expressive *)
   8       Principal                  61   1975.
   8       Flute          (*)         61   Original Melodia.
   8       Dulciana       (*)         61   Original Dulciana.
   4       Octave         (*)         61   1975.
   4       Flute d'Amour  (*)         61   Original Flute d'Amour.
   2       Octave         (*)         61   New.
   II-III  Mixture        (*)        122   1975, re-composed.  19-22.
   8       Trumpet              (Sw)  --
 
   Great to Great 4'


SWELL (Expressive)
   16      Gedeckt                    61   Original Bourdon
   8       Stopped Flute              61   Original Stopped Diapason.
   8       Salicional                 61   Original salicional, rescaled larger.
   8       Voix Celeste         (tc)  49   Original Voix Celeste.
   4       Spitz Principal            61   1975.
   4       Flute               (ext)  24   Extension of 16'. Original + 12 new pipes.
   2       Harmonic Flute             61   Original 4' Flute Harmonic transposed in 1975.
   1-1/3   Nasat                      61   1975.
   8       Trumpet                    61   1975.
   8       Clarinet                   61   Original 8' Clarinette [sic] returned to the Swell.
   4       Clarion                    12   Extension of the 1975 8' Trumpet.

   Swell to Swell 16'
   Swell to Swell 4'
 

PEDAL
   16      Open Diapason              12   Original pipes.  Open wood.
   16      Bourdon                    32   Original pipes.
   16      Gedeckt              (Sw)  --
   8       Principal                  32   Original 8' Open Diapason.
   8       Bourdon             (Ped)  12   Original pipes.
   4       Octave                     12   Original 8' Open Diapason.
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   8       Trumpet              (Sw)  --
   4       Clarion              (Sw)  --


COUPLERS                                     FINGER PISTONS
   Swell to Pedal                  8,4          General                         1 - 6
   Great to Pedal                  8            Swell                           1 - 4
                                                  Sw. to Ped.                   (rev)
   Swell to Great               16,8,4            Sw. to Gt.                    (rev)
                                                Great                           1 - 4
                                                  Gt. to Ped.                   (rev)
TOE STUDS                                       Pedal                           1 - 4
   General                       1 - 6          G.C.
   Pedal                         1 - 4
   Gt. to Ped.                   (rev)
   Trem.        [Swell]          (rev)       PEDAL MOVEMENTS
                                                Swell Expression               (bal.)
                                                Great Expression               (bal.)
                                                Crescendo                      (bal.)


ACTION: Electro-Pneumatic slider (Fisk design) & E-P unit

VOICES: 18         STOPS: 27          RANKS: 19 (21 w/preps)          PIPES: 1,161


NOTES
This was the installation of new slider chests for the manuals within the original Mudler-
Hunter swell boxes. The original Mudler-Hunter chests for the Swell unified 16' Bourdon,
the Pedal 16' Bourdon, and the Pedal 16' Open Diapason were all retained and restored. 
The Swell Trumpet was placed on a new Kilgen-style E-P unit chest.

Tonally, the organ remained mostly like it had been in the 1975 B and V work, except that
the Clarinet was moved back to the Swell, the original 16' Swell Bourdon was reinstated as
a manual stop and unified to play at 16' and 4' pitches, the Swell Trumpet was extended to
play as a 4' Clarion, and was borrowed to the Pedal. A new Peterson relay system and console
components replaced the previously existing systems.

Sources: B&V files, JRS (who was a B&V employee and involved in this project); extant organ.

 [Received from James R. Stettner 2014-06-02.]

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