Better Pipe Organ Database

Reuter Organ Co. Opus 1378 (1962)

First Baptist Church: Sanctuary
111 Park Avenue
Worcester, MA

OHS convention: 1983

Images

2020-10-11 - Church exterior (Photograph by Kenneth C Zirkel, via commons.wikimedia.org, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

1963 - Console (Photograph by Reuter Organ Co., from THE DIAPASON August 1963, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

1963 - Chancel and console (Photograph by Reuter Organ Co., from THE DIAPASON August 1963, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Movable Console
4 manuals
56 stops
76 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: Remote Pneumatic/Mechanical Capture
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe 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

2012-08-30 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

2021-09-03 - According to the *1983 OHS Handbook,* the organ was undergoing ongoing tonal revisions by Theodore Gil bert. "The 1962 Reuter organ was designed by Franklin Mitchell, tonal director of Reuter, and Barclay Wood, organist of the church, who has also supervised the subsequent tonal revisions." -Paul R. Marchesano

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from <i>The Diapason</i> August 1963 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       Worcester, Massachusetts
       First Baptist Church

       Reuter   Op. 1378   1962   4/77
       ______________________________________________________

       GREAT                              SWELL
   16' Quintade             61         8' Flûte à Cheminée 61
    8' Prinzipal            61         8' Viola Principale 61
    8' Holzgedeckt          61         8' Voix Céleste     54
    4' Oktav                61         8' Flûte Douce      61 
    4' Spillflöte           61         8' Flûte Céleste    54
    2' Superoktav           61         4' Prestant         61
   IV  Mixtur              244         4' Flûte Ouverte    61
  III  Scharff             183     2 2/3' Nasard           61
    8' Helle Trompete       61         2' Octavin          61
       Chimes                      1 3/5' Tierce           61
                                      IV  Cymbale         244
       ZARTWERK (enclosed)            16' Fagot            61
   16' Gemshorn             61         8' Trompette        61
    8' Spitzgeige           61         8' Fagot            12
    8' Singendgedeckt       61         8' Voix Humaine     61
    8' Gemshorn             61         4' Clairon          61
    8' Gemshorn Celeste     61            Tremblant
    4' Spitzflöte           61
    4' Gemshorn Celeste II  --            PEDAL
    2' Schwiegel            61        32' Untersatz        12
  III  Kleine Mixtur       183        16' Prinzipal        32
   16' Rankett              61        16' Bordun           32
    8' Krummhorn            61        16' Quintade         GT
    4' Regal                61        16' Gemshorn         ZA
       Tremulant                  10 2/3' Grossquinte      --
                                       8' Oktavbass        32
       POSITIV                         8' Bordun           12
    8' Nasonflöte           61         8' Quintade         GT
    8' Salizional           61         8' Gemshorn         ZA
    4' Prinzipal            61     5 1/3' Quinte           --
    4' Koppelflöte          61         4' Chroalbass       32
    2' Oktav                61         4' Gedeckt          12
1 1/3' Quinte               61         2' Hohlflöte        32
    1' Weitprinzipal        61        IV  Rauschpfeife    128
   II  Sesquialter         122       III  Hohemixtur       96
  III  Zimbel              183        32' Contre Bombarde  12
       Tremulant                      16' Bombarde         32
       Zimbelstern                    16' Fagot            SW
                                      16' Rankett          ZA
       FANFARE                         8' Trompette        12
IV-VI  Éclat               330         8' Fagot            SW
   16' Bombarde-en-Chamade  61         8' Krummhorn        ZA
    8' Trompette-en-Chamade 61         4' Clairon          12
    4' Clairon-en-Chamade   61         4' Krummhorn        ZA
                                       2' Krummhorn        ZA
                                          Chimes           GT

      [Received online from Jeff Scofield August 27, 2012]