2004-10-30 - The original builder was Ernest Skinner & Son (1938, Opus 525). -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1999 -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Rebuilt by Lehigh Organ Co. in 1960's. En chamade Festival Trumpet; Reuter Tuba Mirabilis on 20 inches of wind, enclosed in the Choir box. [Originally 51 stops.] -Database Manager
2005-11-24 - Identified from the Reuter Opus List, provided by Chris Leaver, Reuter Organ Co., November, 2005. -Database Manager
2006-11-10 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- While essentially a new organ, this instrument retains ranks from the church's previous 1938 Ernest M. Skinner & Son organ built in 1938; and substantially rebuilt by the Lehigh Organ Co. in 1969. The Reuter has 82 pipe ranks. In 1998, the Walker Technical Co. added 5 digital ranks to the organ. -Database Manager
Stoplist from <i>The American Organist</i> January 1994 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Allentown, Pennsylvania St. John's Lutheran Church Reuter Op. 2163 1993 4/83 _______________________________________________ GREAT CHOIR 16' Double Diapason 16' Gemshorn 8' Principal 8' Diapason 8' Diapason 8' Voce Umana 8' Stopped Diapason 8' Gemshorn 8' Harmonic Flute 8' Gemshorn Celeste 8' Bourdon 8' Gedeckt 4' Octave 8' Concert Flute 4' Diapason 8' Erzähler 4' Spindle Flute 8' Erzähler Celeste 2' Diapason 4' Principal IV Mounted Cornet 4' Flute IV Mixture 4' Gemshorn Tremulant 2 2/3' Twelfth Unison Off 2 2/3' Gemshorn MIDI on Great 2' Fifteenth Chimes 2' Gemshorn 16' English Horn CH 1 3/5' Seventeenth 8' Tuba Mirabilis CH 1 3/5' Gemshorn 8' Tromba 1 1/3' Nineteenth 8' French Horn CH 1' Gemshorn 8' English Horn CH IV Mixture 16' Festival Trumpet III Cymbal 8' Festival Trumpet 8' Trumpet 8' Clarinet SWELL 8' French Horn 16' Stoped Flute 8' English Horn 8' Geigen Tremulant 8' Violon Cello Sub 8' Cello Celeste Unison Off 8' Chimney Flute Super 8' Stopped Flute 8' Tuba Mirabilis 8' Flute Dolce 8' Festival Trumpet 8' Flute Celeste Harp 4' Principal MIDI on Choir 4' Spire Flute 4' Stopped Flute PEDAL 2 2/3' Nazard 32' Bourdon 2' Recorder 32' Stopped Flute dg 1 3/5' Tierce 16' Principal IV Mixture 16' Contrabass 16' Double Trumpet 16' Double Diapason GT 16' Waldhorn 16' Bourdon 12 8' Trumpet 16' Gemshorn CH 8' Waldhorn 16' Stopped Flute SW 8' Oboe d'Amour 16' Gedeckt 12 AN 8' Vox Humana 8' Principal 4' Clarion 8' Contrabass 12 Tremulant 8' Diapason GT Sub 8' Bourdon 12 Unison off 8' Stopped Flute SW Super 4' Principal 12 MIDI on Swell 4' Diapason GT 4' Bourdon 12 ANTIPHONAL IV Mixture 128 8' Principal 32' Trombone dg 8' Gedeckt 32' Waldhorn 12 SW 4' Octave 16' Trombone 32 4' Gedeckt 16' Double Trumpet SW 2 2/3' Quint 16' Waldhorn SW 2' Octavin 8' Trombone 12 III Mixture 8' Trumpet SW 8' Trumpet 8' Waldhorn SW 4' Trumpet 4' Trombone 12 Tremulant 4' Waldhorn SW Sub Chimes Unison Off 16' Festival Trumpet AN Super 8' Festival Trumpet AN Harp 4' Festival Trumpet AN 16' Festival Trumpet MIDI on Pedal 16' Tuba Mirabilis CH 8' Festival Trumpet 8' Tuba Mirabilis CH 8' French Horn CH 8' English Horn CH [Received online from Jeff Scofield July 7, 2012]
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