PSTOS - Music Hall Theatre, Seattle: Stop List

Music Hall - 4/16 Robert Morton
Seattle, Washington

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Pedal
32 Diaphonic Resultant
16 Tuba Profunda
16 Bourdon
16 Bass String (Gamba)
8 Tuba
8 English Horn
8 Open Diapason
8 Tibia Clausa
8 Gamba
8 Violin
8 Celeste Viol
8 Oboe Horn
8 Clarinet
4 Octave
Bass Drum
Kettle Drum
Snare Drum
Cymbals
Crash Cymbal
Triangle
Pedal to Pedal 8
Accomp to Pedal 8
Great to Pedal 8
Solo to Pedal 8

Second Touch
Chimes
Bass Drum
Kettle Drum
Cymbal
Crash Cymbal
Chinese Gong, roll
Triangle

Solo
16 Tuba Profunda
16 Tibia Clausa
16 Solo String
16 Clarinet
8 Tuba
8 Trumpet
8 English Horn
8 Open Diapason
8 Tibia Clausa
8 Solo String
8 Violin
8 Celeste Viol
8 Saxophone (syn)
8 Kinura
8 Vox Humana
8 Oboe Horn
8 Clarinet
8 Krumet
8 Orchestral Oboe (syn)
4 Tuba
4 Tibia Clausa
4 Oboe Horn
4 Violin
4 Celeste Viol
2 Piccolo (Tibia)
Harp
Chrysoglott
Solo to Solo 16
Solo to Solo 4

Orchestral
8 Tuba
8 Trumpet
8 English Horn
8 Open Diapason
8 Tibia Clausa
8 Gamba
8 Violin
8 Celeste Viol
8 Dulciana
8 Kinura
8 Oboe Horn
8 Krumet
4 Tibia Clausa
4 Gamba
4 Violin
2 Piccolo (Tibia)
2 Fifteenth (Viol)
Harp
Chrysoglott
Glockenspiel
Orchestra Bells
Xylophone
Chimes
Accompaniment
16 Contra Viol
16 Celeste Viol
8 Tuba
8 English Horn
8 Open Diapason
8 Tibia Clausa
8 Concert Flute
8 Gamba
8 Viol d'Orchestre
8 Celeste Viol
8 Dulciana
8 Kinura
8 Vox Humana
8 Oboe Horn
8 Clarinet
8 Krumet
8 Orchestral Oboe (syn)
4 Octave
4 Flute
4 Viol
4 Celeste Viol
2-2/3 Twelfth
2 Piccolo
Marimba Harp
Harp
Chrysoglott
Orchestra Bells
Snare Drum Roll
Snare Drum Tap
Snare Drum Tap, Muffled
Tambourine
Castanet
Tom Tom
Tom Tom, Muffled
Wood Drum
Wood Drum, Muffled
Sleigh Bells, Muffled
Chinese Gong
Drum Cymbal
Accomp to Accomp 16
Accomp to Accomp 4
Great to Accomp 8
Solo to Accomp 8

Second Touch
8 Tuba
8 English Horn
8 Diaphonic Diapason
8 Tibia Clausa
Chimes
Triangle
Bird
Orchestral to Accomp 8

Swell Shoes
Left
Right
Crescendo

Toe Studs
Crash Cymbal
Chinese Gong
Auto Horn
Siren
Train Whistle
Boat Whistle
Fire Gong
Pedal Combination
Tibia
Vox Humana

Great
16 Tuba Profunda
16 English Horn
16 Diaphone
16 Tibia Clausa
16 Concert Flute
16 Gamba
16 Violin
8 Tuba
8 Trumpet
8 English Horn
8 Open Diapason
8 Tibia Clausa
8 Concert Flute
8 Gamba
8 Violin
8 Celeste Viol
8 Dulciana
8 Saxophone (syn)
8 Kinura
8 Vox Humana
8 Oboe Horn
8 Clarinet
8 Krumet
8 Orchestral Oboe (syn)
4 Tuba
4 Octave
4 Tibia Clausa
4 Flute
4 Gamba
4 Vox Humana
2-2/3 Twelfth
2 Piccolo
2 Fifteenth (Viol)
1-3/5 Tierce
Harp
Chrysoglott
Glockenspiel
Orchestra Bells
Xylophone
Chimes
Great to Great 16
Great to Great 4
Solo to Great 16
Solo to Great 8
Solo to Great 4

Second Touch
16 Tuba
16 Diaphone
16 Tibia Clausa
16 Gamba
Orchestral to Great 8

Kick Switches
1. Sforzando, 1st
Stops/couplers 2nd
2. Triangle, 1st
Kettle Drum/Cymbal 2nd
3. Thunder
4. Horses Hoofs

Expression, on-off
Master expression

Unisons, on-off
Solo
Great
Accompaniment
General

The layout of the manuals from lower to upper is: Accompaniment, Great, Solo, Orchestral.

Great stops start at the extreme left on the lower bolster with the Pedal stops just above. The Orchestral stops are located at the extreme right on the top bolster with the Solo stops just beneath, while the Acccompaniment stops start just to the left of the center of the horseshoe below the middle bolster.

15HP Orgoblo blower

All pipework except Vox Humana is voiced on 15" pressure.

Console appropriations (from The Bombarde, December 1964):

Stop tabs: the flue pipes and couplers were white; the strings, mottled amber; the reeds and Diaphone, red; the traps and percussions, cocoanut brown. There are eight combination buttons beneath each manual and a row of toe studs just above the pedals activate such typically theatre effects as Crash Cymbal, Chinese Gong, Train Whistle, Fire Siren, Automobile Klaxon Horn and a fire engine gong, not to mention thunder, horse hooves and the more common drums and cymbals.

If one counts the 8' stop keys, they add up to 18 ranks. Yet it is rated as a 16 ranker. Howcome? The answer lies in a little trick employed by a number of builders who combined several ranks to build what are termed "synthetics," a practice which is the lifeblood of the electronic organ industry today.

It is possible to combine such ranks as 4' Flute, 4' string, 2-2/3 Twelfth, 1-3/5' Tierce to roughly approximate the sound of an Oboe. Although it is quite possible to set this combination up by simply depressing the four stopkeys so labelled, the builders found that the inclusion of a red stopkey labeled "OBOE" (Syn) drawing all four ranks together made a small organ seem larger--a selling point. Clarinets and Saxophones were similarly counterfeited and this instrument bears a stopkey labelled "SAXOPHONE (Syn)." This was common padding for the upper or Solo manual of 2 small manual organs but it is most unusual to discover the artful deceit in instruments larger than 9 ranks. However, the 16 real ranks more than make up for the minor deception.