Better Pipe Organ Database

Reuter Organ Co. Opus 185 (1926)

St. Basil's Roman Catholic Church
1840 West Garfield Boulevard
Chicago, IL

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

Images

2022-09-26 - Church exterior (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2022 - Church interior to front (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2018 - Gallery and organ chambers (Photograph by John Golus, via church website, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
20 stops
27 registers
4 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: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons

Notes

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

2024-04-17 - Updated through online information from Robert Rusczyk: The Reuter was in the St. Basil RC Church at 1840 West Garfield Blvd, Chicago. St. Basil closed in 1990 and the Reuter was razed with the building in 1998. -Jim Stettner

Stoplist

Source: From THE DIAPASON January 1926

    Chicago, Illinois
    St. Basil Catholic Church

    Reuter   Op. 185   1926   3/20
    ________________________________________________

       Stops without pipecounts are prepared-for

    GREAT                        SWELL
16' Open Diapason            16' Bourdon          61
 8' Open Diapason    73       8' Open Diapason    73
 8' Second Diapason           8' Stopped Diapason 12
 8' Doppelflöte      73       8' Viol d'Orchestre
 8' Viol d'Gamba     73       8' Salicional       73
 8' Clarabella       73       8' Voix Celeste     61
 8' Gemshorn                  8' Aeoline          73
 4' Harmonic Flute   73       4' Waldflöte        12
 8' Trumpet          73   2 2/3' Nazard            7
    Tremolo                   2' Flautino          5
    Chimes                    8' Cornopean        73
                              8' Oboe             73
    PEDAL                     8' Vox Humana       73
32' Resultant                    Tremolo
16' Open Diapason    32
16' Bourdon          32          CHOIR
16' Violone                   8' Violin Diapason  73
16' Lieblich Gedeckt SW       8' Concert Flute    73
 8' Violoncello      GT       8' Dulciana         73
 8' Dolce Flute      GT       8' Unda Maris
                              4' Flute d'Amour    73
                              8' Clarinet
                                 Tremolo

     [Received from Jeff Scofield January 10, 2022]