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Reuter Organ Co. Opus 500 (1937)

The Citadel: Summerall Chapel
Avenue of Remembrance
Charleston, SC

Images

1992-04-20 - Chapel exterior (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

1992-04-20 - Chapel interior (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
3 manuals
31 stops
41 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
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
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

2013-09-09 - Updated through online information from Randell Franklyn Busby. -Database Manager

2014-04-15 - New 4-manual Reuter console in 1960; rebuilt and enlarged to 4/63 by Reuter in 1965; console fire in 1983 rendered the organ unplayable; organ damaged by Hurricane Hugo in 1989 and console stored at the Central Supply Warehouse; second-hand 2-manual electronic moved into chapel. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the factory specifications Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       Charleston, South Carolina
       The Citadel, Sumerall Chapel

       Reuter   Op. 500   1937   3/34
       ________________________________________________

       GREAT                        SWELL
   16' Dbl Open Diapason 61     16' Bourdon          73
    8' Open Diapason     61      8' Geigen Principal 73
    8' Principal Flute   61      8' Rohr Flute       73
    8' Gemshorn          61      8' Salicional       73
    8' Rohr Flute        SW      8' Voix Celeste     61
    8' Salicional        SW      8' Aeoline          73
    8' Aeoline           SW      4' Flute ⌂          73
    4' Octave            61      2' Fifteenth        61
    4' Flute ⌂           SW    III  Mixture         183
   II  Mixture  12-15   122     16' Bombarde         73
    8' Tromba            61      8' Trompette        73
       Sub                       8' Oboe             73
       Super                     8' French Horn      73
       Chimes (in Swell) 25      4' Clarion          73
                                    Tremolo
       CHOIR                        Sub
    8' Diapason          73         Unison Off
    8' Concert Flute     73         Super
    8' Dulciana          73
    8' Unda Maris        61         PEDAL
    4' Flute d'Amour     61     16' Open Diapason    32
2 2/3' Twelfth            7     16' Bourdon          32
    2' Fifteenth          5     16' Violone          32
    8' Clarinet          73     16' Lieblich Gedeckt SW
    8' English Horn      73      8' Octave           12
       Tremolo                   8' Flute            12
       Sub                      16' Bombarde         SW
       Super                        Chimes           GT
    8' Harp              61
    4' Harp Celesta

    [Received online from Jeff Scofield April 16, 2014]

Documents

Write-up from THE DIAPASON August 1937 Stoplist and description -Jeff Scofield
Factory specifications, Reuter Organ Co. via Jeff Scofield -Jeff Scofield

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