Better Pipe Organ Database

Rudolf von Beckerath (1971)

Montreat College: Gaither Chapel
Montreat, NC

Images

2014-06-25 - Console (Photograph by Andrew Henderson/Database Manager)

2014-06-25 - Left Stop Jamb (Photograph by Andrew Henderson/Database Manager)

2014-06-25 - Right Stop Jamb (Photograph by Andrew Henderson/Database Manager)

Unknown - Organ Case (Photograph by Andrew Henderson/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
13 stops
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: None
Has hitchdown couplers

Notes

2014-06-26 - Updated through online information from Andrew Henderson. -- Great Principal 8' appears to have been a later addition; both Pedal Subbass 16' and Great Principal 8' drawknobs are replacements/new. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from the console June 25, 2014 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Montreat, North Carolina
Montreat College (Gaither Chapel)

Rudolf von Beckerath (1971)

Hauptwerk (Manual I)

8' Prinzipal (later addition? 1-12 from Rohrflöte)
8' Rohrflöte 
4' Principal (1-23 in facade)
2' Flachflöte
IV Mixture
BW/HW

Brustwerk (Manual II)

8' Gedackt
4' Koppelflöte
2' Principal
1-1/3' Quintflöte
8' Krummhorn

Pedal

16' Subbass
8' Gemshorn (1-10 in facade)
4' Choralbaß

HW/Ped; BW/Ped (pedal pulldowns)
Trem (pull down; inoperable 6/25/14)

 [Received from Andrew Henderson 2014-06-27.]