Better Pipe Organ Database

Reuter Organ Co. Opus 1531 (1967)

Normandale Lutheran Church: Sanctuary
6100 N. Normandale Rd.
Edina, MN

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

Images

Unknown - Console and organ in balcony (Reuter Organ Co. promotional photo, courtesy of Max Mayse (1967)/Database Manager)

1986-11-11 - Console (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
51 stops
30 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)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
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

2009-01-23 - Updated through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -- A Great 16' Quintaton and a 8-stop, 9-rank Positiv division were prepared-for at time of installation. -Database Manager

2009-03-02 - Rebuilt and relocated to Faith Lutheran, Coon Rapids, by Rutz in 2001. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from <i>The Diapason</i> October 1968 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       Edina, Minnesota
       Normandale Lutheran Church

       Reuter   Op. 1531   1966   3/37
       ______________________________________________________

       GREAT                            CHOIR (prepared-for)
   16' Quintaten          pf         8' Gedeckt            
    8' Principal          61         8' Gemshorn
    8' Bourdon            61 	     8' Gemshorn Celeste
    4' Octave		  61	     4' Fugara
    4' Spillflöte	  61	     4' Koppelflöte
    2' Fifteenth	  61	     2' Spitzflöte
   IV  Fourniture        244        II  Sesquialtera
       Sub			     8' Schalmei
       Unison Off			Tremolo
       Super				Sub
    8' Horizontal Trumpet pf		Unison off
       Chimes				Super
				    16' Horizontal Trumpet pf
       SWELL			     8' Horizontal Trumpet pf
   16' Rohrgedeckt        61	     4' Horizontal Trumpet pf
    8' Rohrflöte          12
    8' Viola              61		PEDAL
    8' Viola Celeste      49        32' Acoustic Bourdon   --
    4' Principal          61	    16' Principal          32
    4' Hohlflöte          61	    16' Bourdon		   32
2 2/3' Nasard             61	    16' Rohrgedeckt	   SW
    2' Blockflöte         61	    16' Quintaten	   pf
1 3/5' Tierce             61	10 2/3' Rohrquint	   --
  III  Scharf             pf	     8' Octave             32
   16' Fagotto		  61	     8' Bourdon            12
    8' Trompette	  61	     8' Rohrflöte          SW
    8' Fagotto		  12	     8' Quintaten          pf
    4' Fagotto Clarion    12	     4' Choralbass	   32
       Tremolo			     4' Bourdon		   12
       Sub			     2' Bourdon		   12
       Unison Off		   III  Mixture            96
       Super			    32' Bombarde	   pf
				    16' Bombarde	   32
       POSITIV			    16' Fagotto		   SW
    8' Nasonflöte         61	     8' Bombarde	   12
    4' Nachthorn	  61	     8' Fagotto		   SW
    2' Doublette	  61	     4' Clarion		   12
1 1/3' Larigot		  61	     4' Krummhorn	   PO
   II  Zimbel	 	 122
    8' Krummhorn	  61
       Tremolo

      [Received online from Jeff Scofield July 11, 2012]

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