Better Pipe Organ Database

Reuter Organ Co. Opus 618 (1940)

First Presbyterian Church: Sanctuary
321 S. First Street
Arkansas City, KS

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

Images

2012-07-03 - Church exterior (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
3 manuals
25 stops
31 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)
Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb 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

2007-02-06 - Updated through online information from Sanford Berry. -- Replaced by Austin #2673 a 2/26. Reuter was sold to a church in Missouri. -Database Manager

2012-10-07 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

    Arkansas City, Kansas
    First Presbyterian Church

    Reuter   Op. 618   1940   3/28
    ___________________________________________________

    GREAT (*encl in Choir)          SWELL
16' Major Diapason      61      16' Lieblich Gedeckt 12
 8' First Diapason      61       8' Geigen Diapason  73
 8' Second Diapason     12       8' Rohrflote        73
 8' Hohlflote           61 *     8' Viole d'Gamba    73
 8' Salicional          61 *     8' Voix Celeste     64 TA
 4' Octave              61       8' Aeoline          73
II  Grave Mixture      122       4' Flute Traverso   73
    Sub                          2' Piccolo          61
    Unison Off                 III  Mixture         194
    Super                        8' Cornopean        73
    Chimes              25       8' Oboe             73
                                 8' Vox Humana       61 **
    CHOIR                           Tremolo
 8' Viola               73          Sub
 8' Spitz Flute         73          Unison Off
 8' Spitz Flute Celeste 64 TA       Super
 8' Dolce               73
 4' Flute d'Amour       73          PEDAL
 8' Clarinet            73      16' Open Diapason    GT
    Tremolo                     16' Bourdon          32
    Sub                         16' Lieblich Gedeckt SW
    Unison Off                   8' Octave           32
    Super                        8' Flute            12
                                 8' Still Gedeckt    SW
                                 4' Super Octave     12

**  voiced on 4"wind, enclosed in separate box; to have
    individual tremolo

   [Received online from Jeff Scofield  October 9, 2012]

Documents

Write-up from THE DIAPASON August 1940 Stoplist and description -Jeff Scofield
Factory specifications, Reuter Organ Co. via Jeff Scofield -Jeff Scofield