Better Pipe Organ Database

Reuter Organ Co. Opus 83 (1922)

Grace Methodist Episcopal Church
600 South Jefferson
Springfield, MO

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Images

1923-06-02 - Chancel, Pipe Facade, and Console (Church Photograph supplied by T. Daniel Hancock/Database Manager)

1951-03-25 - Chancel, Pipe Facade, and Console (Church Photograph supplied by T. Daniel Hancock/Database Manager)

1958-04-06 - Sanctuary Interior and Balcony (Church Photograph supplied by T. Daniel Hancock/Database Manager)

1961-03-03 - Replacement Console with Ilah Dixon, Organist (Church Photograph supplied by T. Daniel Hancock/Database Manager)

1956-12-23 - Chancel, Replacement Console, and Chamber Grillework (Church Photograph supplied by T. Daniel Hancock/Database Manager)

1964-05-03 - Chancel, Console, and Chamber Grillework (Church Photograph supplied by T. Daniel Hancock/Database Manager)

1923-06-02 - Church Exterior (Church Photograph supplied by T. Daniel Hancock/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
50 registers
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 (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Has crescendo
Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2005-11-24 - Identified from the Reuter Opus List, provided by Chris Leaver, Reuter Organ Co., November, 2005. -Database Manager

2010-09-01 - Updated through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -- I am the current organist at Grace United Methodist Church, and the Church Historian. Although this organ is no longer extant, I have access to records about it, most importantly, the orginal contract. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist. On-line update from T. Daniel Hancock. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Stoplist    
         
GREAT        
 8' Diapason         - Metal - 73 pipes    
 8' Viol d'Gamba     - Metal - 73 pipes    
 8' Concert Flute    - Wood - 73 pipes    
 8' Dulciana         - Metal - 73 pipes    
 4' Wald Flute       - W & M - 12 pipes (from Concert Flute)    
 8' Harmonic Tuba    - Reed - 73 pipes    
    Cathedral Chimes - 20 notes    
    Typical couplers at 16, 8, 4 for all manual divisions    
    All stops except for Diapason and Harmonic Tuba enclosed in Choir expression chamber.        

SWELL        
16' Bourdon           - Wood - 73 pipes    
 8' Open Diapason     - Metal - 73 pipes    
 8' Stopped Flute     - Wood - 73 pipes    
 8' Viol d'Orchestra  - Metal - 73 pipes   
 8' Viole Celeste     - Metal - 73 pipes    
 8' Aeoline           - Metal - 73 pipes   
 4' Flute Traverse    - W & M - 73 pipes   
 8' Oboe              - Reed - 73 pipes   
 8' Vox Humana        - Reed - 73 pipes   
    Vox Vibrato (Special) 
    Tremolo        

CHOIR       
 8' Viol d' Gamba   - from Great    
 8' Concert Flute   - from Great   
 8' Dulciana        - from Great   
 4' Wald Flute      - from Great    
 8' Clarinet        - Reed - 73 pipes    
    Cathedral Chimes 
    Tremolo
    All enclosed in expression chamber.        

PEDAL        
16' Open Diapason    - W & M - 12 pipes    
16' Bourdon          - Wood - 32 pipes    
16' Lieblich Gedeckt - from Swell   
 8' Flute              (from Bourdon?)    
    All manuals couple to pedal at unison only.        

Six divisional pistons for each manual which also active pedal stops.    
General cancel piston        
Six "master" or general combination pistons, duplicated onto toe studs.