Better Pipe Organ Database

Reuter Organ Co. Opus 1412 (1963)

First Methodist Church
1001 Pleasant Street
Des Moines, IA

Images

2017-01-27 - Console and Chamber Grillework (Photograph by Jason Sturges/Database Manager)

2017-01-27 - Console (Photograph by Jason Sturges/Database Manager)

2017-01-27 - Sanctuary Interior, Chancel, and Grillework (Photograph by Jason Sturges/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
3 manuals
50 stops
62 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 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

2009-12-25 - Updated through online information from Donald Hobbs. -- A note from the current pastor when I inquired about the organ. The note only confirmed that the organ still exists and is "3 manual, 63 rank, electro-pneumatic from 1963" -Database Manager

2012-09-08 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Fanfare Trumpet added in 1971. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from <i>The Diapason</i> July 1962 Source: Stoplist copied from The Diapason, July 1962 July 1962

       Des Moines, Iowa
       First Methodist Church

       Reuter   Op. 1412   1963   3/62
       __________________________________________________

       GREAT                          SWELL
   16' Sub Principal   61         16' Lieblichbordun   61
    8' Principal       61          8' Geigenprincipal  61
    8' Bourdon         61          8' Rohrflöte        61                             
    4' Octave          61          8' Viole de Gambe   61
    4' Spillflöte      61          8' Viole Celeste    54
    2' Fifteenth       61          4' Principal        61
   IV  Fourniture     244          4' Hohlflöte        61
  III  Scharf         183      2 2/3' Nasard           61
   16' Dulzian         PO          2' Blockflöte       61
    8' Trumpet         61      1 3/5' Tierce           61
       Sub                       III  Plein Jeu       183
       Unison off                 16' Bombarde         61
       Super                       8' Trompette        61
    8' Fanfare Trumpet 61 a        8' Vox Humana       pf
       Chimes                      4' Clairon          61
                                      Tremolo
       POSITIV                        Sub
    8' Copula          61             Unison Off
    8' Salicional      61 b           Super
    8' Flauto Dolce    61 b
    8' Flute Celeste   54 b           PEDAL
    4' Principal       61         32' Acoustic Bourdon --
    4' Koppelflöte     61         16' Principal        32
    4' Cor de Nuit     61 b       16' Bourdon          32
    2' Principal       61         16' Sub Principal    GT
1 1/3' Larigot         61         16' Lieblichbordun   SW
    1' Sifflöte        61          8' Octave           32
  III  Cymbale        183          8' Gedeckt          32
   16' Dulzian         61          8' Sub Principal    GT
    8' Krummhorn       61          8' Flauto Dolce     SW
    8' Baryton         61 b        4' Choralbass       32
    4' Regal           61          4' Coppel           32
       Tremolo                     2' Waldflöte        32
       Unison Off                 II  Sesquialter      64
   16' Fanfare Trumpet tc        III  Mixtur           96
    8' Fanfare Trumpet GT         16' Bombarde         32
    4' Fanfare Trumpet GT         16' Dulzian          PO
                                   8' Bombarde         12
    a  added in 1971               8' Dulzian          PO
    b  enclosed with Swell         4' Schalmei         32
                                   4' Dulzian          PO

   [Received online from Jeff Scofield  September 6, 2012]