Port Townsend, Washington
Trinity United Methodist Church

Bernard Mudler, ca. 1902 - Original Specifications

GREAT                                        COUPLERS
8 ft.  Open Diapason             61          Swell to Pedal                  [8]
8 ft.  Melodia                   61          Great to Pedal                  [8]
8 ft.  Dulciana                  49
4 ft.  Octave                    61          Swell to Great                  [8]
                                             Sw. to Gr. Octave               [4]

SWELL (Expressive)
8 ft.  Violin Diapason           49          FOOT LEVERS 
8 ft.  Stop'd Diapason           61          Forte – Gr.: 8,8,8,4.         (s-a)
8 ft.  Salicional                61                  Sw.: 8,8,8,4.
4 ft.  Flute                     61
       Tremolo                               Piano – Gr.: Mel. & Dulc.     (s-a)
                                                     Sw.: S.D. & Sal.

PEDAL
16 ft. Bourdon                   27          PEDAL MOVEMENTS
       Pedal Check                           Swell Expression             (bal.)

Bellows Signal


ACTION: Mechanical key      VOICES: 9      STOPS: 9      RANKS: 9      PIPES: 491
                & stop

NOTES
This organ was built for the Nazareth German Evangelical Lutheran Church
in Camden, NJ. It was contracted in 1900, but not completed and installed
until 1902. When the German-speaking congregation disbanded in 1995, the
organ was removed by Patrick J. Murphy & Assoc. of Stowe, PA. and stored
at their facility.  It was purchased by Trinity United Methodist in 2003
for $5000.00 “as is.”  The organ was retrieved by Stan Goddard and Beth
Mackey of the church, and driven across country. It was reassembled in
2003-04 by Stan Goddard and Harry Takata with assistance by Monroe, WA.
organ builder Clinton B. Meadway.

The organ is free-standing and encased with an attached, projecting
keydesk – the cover of which opens to make a music rack. The stops are
drawknobs in terraced jambs. The Swell drawknob heads are brown. The Great
drawknob heads are black. And the Pedal drawknob, Pedal Check,and Bellows
Signal are light-colored wood.  The engraved inserts are replacements
since the originals were badly worn, faded, and damaged.

Some of the pipework also appears not to be original...and has
characteristics of Kimball pipework.

The 3-sectional stenciled facade contains 19 pipes of the Great 8 ft. Open
Diapason arranged: 3 – 13 – 3. The two sets of 3 pipes are stopped wood
and notes 1 – 6. The remaining 13 facade pipes are open zinc. The 8 ft.
Dulciana is grooved to the 8 ft. Melodia for its bottom octave.

On the Swell, the 8' Salicional was badly damaged. The first 12 pipes are
capped metal quintadena basses and were retained. But it is a replacement
set from tenor C. The 8 ft. Violin Diapason is grooved to the 8' Stop'd
Diapason for its bottom octave. The 4 ft. Flute is a Harmonic Flute from
middle C.

The Pedal 16 ft. Bourdon is a the back of the organ on a chest in two
rows. The outer set faces outward. The inner set faces inward.

Sources: Photo & document album by Stan Goddard; extant organ

[Received from James R. Stettner 2010-10-08.]