Better Pipe Organ Database

Ruhland Organ Co. (1983)

Birmingham-Southern College: Hill Music Building, Room 38
900 Arkadelphia Road
Birmingham, AL

Images

1987-07-01 - Keydesk and Manual II Pipework (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

2006-12-21 - Organ Case (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
17 stops
17 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: No Enclosed Divisions
Combination action: None
Has hitchdown couplers

Notes

2005-01-07 - Manual action rebuilt by Hayes Pipe Organ Service, 1994. Pedal action rebuilt by Roy Redman, 2004. -Database Manager

2006-12-04 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the keydesk in July, 1987 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Birmingham, Alabama
Birmingham Southern College

RUHLAND ORGAN CO., 1983 - Original Specifications


MANUAL I                                     COUPLERS (hitch-down)
   8'     Prinzipal                 56          II – Ped
   8'     Rohrflöte                 56           I – Ped
   4'     Prinzipal                 56
   2-2/3' Quintflöte                56          II - I
   2'     Flachflöte                56
   1-3/5' Terzflöte                 56
   IV     Mixtur   [  -  -  -  ]   224
          Tremulant


MANUAL II
   8'     Holzgedackt               56
   4'     Gemshorn                  56
   2'     Prinzipal                 56
   1-1/3' Quinte                    56
   8'     Krummhorn                 56
          Tremulant                          ACTION: Mech. Key & Stop

                                             VOICES: 17
PEDAL
   16'    Subbass                   32       STOPS: 17
   8'     Prinzipal                 32
   8'     Gedacktpommer             32       RANKS: 20
   4'     Choralbass                32
   16'    Fagot                     32       PIPES: 1,000


NOTES
The organ is free-standing and encased in a rather 'boxy' oak case. The Manual II
is in Brustwerk position over the keydesk and is enclosed by folding doors. Manual
I is above Manual II, and both are framed by Pedal towers of flamed copper 8' Prin-
zipal pipes.

According to notes on the OHS Database, the manual action was rebuilt by Hayes Pipe
Organ Service of Birmingham, AL. in 1994, and the Pedal action was rebuilt by Roy
Redman of Fort Worth, TX. In 2004.

Sources: Ruhland opus list; OHS Database notes; JRS; extant organ

 [Received from James R. Stettner 2016-05-24.]