Better Pipe Organ Database

Reuter Organ Co. Opus 1067 (1953)

St. Alban's Episcopal Church: Sanctuary; front
305 North Thirtieth Street
Waco, TX

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

Images

2017-04-09 - Left Stop Jamb (Photograph by Damin Spritzer/Database Manager)

2017-04-09 - Right Stop Jamb (Photograph by Damin Spritzer/Database Manager)

2016-07-05 - Church Exterior (Photograph by T. Bradford Willis/Database Manager)

2016-04-24 - Console and Pipe Display (Photograph by David Gilbreath/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
3 manuals
28 stops
54 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)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb 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

2012-08-29 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- The Rückpositiv is located in the gallery and has its own one-manual console. -Database Manager

2014-12-01 - Updated through online information from T. Bradford Willis. -Database Manager

2019-09-15 - According to a church newsletter, a new Schoenstein pipe organ will replace the Reuter in 2021. -Database Manager

2021-11-07 - According to the Fall 2021 church newsletter, the Reuter organ has been removed from the organ chamber in the chancel and the chamber is being rebuilt and enlarged in preparation of the new Schoenstein organ in 2022. It states the Reuter organ pipes will go to other organs in need. https://www.stalbanswaco.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Fall-2021-Epistle.pdf -T. Bradford Willis, DDS

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from <i>The Diapason</i> October 1954 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       Waco, Texas
       St. Alban's Episcopal Church

       Reuter   Op. 1067   1953   3/32
       ____________________________________________________

       GREAT                            RÜCKPOSITIV
    8' Diapason           61         8' Bourdon          61
    8' Spitzprincipal     61         4' Prinzipal        61
    8' Hohlflöte          61         4' Zartflöte        61
    8' Spitzflöte         SW         2' Nachthorn        61
    4' Octave             61        II  Mixture         122
    4' Spillflöte         61
    4' Spitzflöte         SW            RÜCKPOSITIV CONSOLE
2 2/3' Twelfth            61         8' Bourdonbass
    2' Fifteenth          61         8' Discant Bourdon
   IV  Mixture           244         4' Prinzipal
       Tremolo                       4' Zarflötenbass
    8' Liturgical Trumpet 49         2' Discant Zartflöte
                                     2' Nachthorn
       SWELL                        II  Mixturbass
   16' Spitzflöte         61        II  Discant Mixtur
    8' Fugara             73
    8' Rohrflöte          73            PEDAL
    8' String Celeste     61        16' Bourdon          32
    8' Spitzflöte         73        16' Fugara           12 SW
    8' Flute Celeste      61        16' Spitzflöte       SW
    4' Principal          73    10 2/3' Spitzquinte      SW
    4' Harmonic Flute     73         8' Octave           32
    4' Spitzflöte         12         8' Bourdon          32
2 2/3' Spitzquinte         7         8' Fugara           SW
    2' Doublette          61         8' Spitzflöte       SW
    2' Spitzflöte          5     5 1/3' Twelfth          SW
   16' Fagotto            73         4' Super Octave     12
    8' Trompette          73         4' Spitzflöte       SW
    4' Hautbois           73        16' Fagotto          SW
       Tremolo                       8' Fagotto          SW
                                     4' Fagotto          SW

      [Received online from Jeff Scofield August 24, 2012]