Better Pipe Organ Database

Reuter Organ Co. Opus 1150 (1955)

First Baptist Church: East Sanctuary
1200 9th Street
Wichita Falls, TX

Images

2016-01-31 - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Wikimedia Commons, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

1955-06-06 - Console (Photograph from the collection of Proctor Crow/Database Manager)

1955-08-08 - Robert Geisler, Franklin Mitchell, J. L. Randall by the Console (Photograph courtesy of the Reuter Organ Company/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
4 manuals
118 stops
54 registers
6 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: Computerized/Digital
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler 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 - Organ updated with solid-state in 1980, who also added an en-chamade; new worship center with Rodgers built, but old sanctuary and Reuter remain as chapel and chapel organ. -Database Manager

2016-08-16 - Updated through online information from Josh White. <br>You might want to update the stoplist to include the 8' Festival Trumpet, with a note that it was added in 1980. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from <i>The Diapason</i> February 1957 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

        Wichita Falls, Texas
        First Baptist Church

        Reuter   Op. 1150   1955   4/66
        ___________________________________________________

        GREAT                           SWELL
    16' Violone                     16' Flauto Dolce
     8' Principal                    8' Geigen Principal
     8' Diapason Conique             8' Rohrflöte
     4' Octave                       8' Salicional
     4' Flute Harmonic               8' Flauto Dolce     12
 2 2/3' Twelfth                      8' Flute Celeste
     2' Fifteenth                    4' Principal
    IV  Fourniture                   4' Flauto Traverso
   III  Cymbal                       4' Flauto Dolce     12
        Sub                          2' Blockflöte
        Unison Off                  IV  Plein Jeu
        Super                       16' Fagotto
        Chimes                       8' Trumpet
     8' Trombone           SO        8' Fagotto
     8' French Horn        SO        8' Vox Humana
                                     4' Clarion
        CHEST OF VIOLS (*)              Tremulant
    16' Contra Viola                    Sub
     8' Viola                           Unison Off
     8' Viola Celeste                   Super
     8' Viole d'Amour
     8' Viole Celeste                   CHOIR
     8' Viole                       16' Quintaten
     4' Viole                        8' Diapason
     2' Viole                        8' Gedeckt
   III  Viol Cornet                  8' Gemshorn
        Tremulant                    8' Gemshorn Celeste
                                     8' Quintaten        12
        PEDAL                        4' Nachthorn
    32' Contra Bourdon     32        4' Quintaten        12
    16' Contrebasse        32    2 2/3' Nasard
    16' Bourdon            12        2' Waldflöte
    16' Violone            GT    1 3/5' Tierce
    16' Quintaten          CH    1 1/3' Larigot
    16' Flauto Dolce       SW        1' Zauberflöte
10 2/3' Flauto Dolce Quint SW        8' Clarinet
     8' Octave             32           Tremulant
     8' Bourdon            12           Sub
     8' Violone            GT           Unison Off
     8' Quintaten          CH           Super
     8' Flauto Dole        SW           Harp
 5 1/3' Flauto Dolce Quint SW
     4' Choralbass         32           SOLO
     4' Bourdon            12        8' Solo Flute
     2' Nachthorn          32        8' Solo Viole
   III  Mixture            96        8' Viole Celeste
    16' Bombarde           32       16' Trombone
    16' Trombone           SO        8' Trumpet Harmonic
    16' Fagotto            SW        8' French Horn
10 2/3' Trombone Quint     SO        8' English Horn
     8' Bombarde           12        4' Trombone Clarion 24
     8' Trombone           SO           Tremulant
     8' Fagotto            SW           Sub
     4' Bombarde           12           Unison Off
     4' Fagotto            SW           Super
        Chimes             GT

     *  a set of Chest of Viols drawknobs is located below
        the knobs of each manual and pedal division

       [Received online from Jeff Scofield August 25, 2012]