Better Pipe Organ Database

Visser & Associates Opus 127 (2001)

St. Luke's Episcopal Church: Sanctuary; rear
8009 Fort Hunt Road
Alexandria, VA

Images

2017-02-03 - Case (Photograph by David Storey/David Storey)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Detached Keydesk (Mechanical Action)
3 manuals
24 stops
26 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
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: Computerized/Digital
Solid State Organ Systems
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2006-11-15 - Identified through on-line information from Jane Bourdow. -- Cherry casework, console originally from All Saints Episcopal in Phoenix, Arizona -Database Manager

2012-01-28 - Updated through online information from Jane Bourdow. -Database Manager

2014-11-21 - Updated through online information from Jane Bourdow. -Database Manager

2015-03-31 - Updated through online information from Jane Bourdow. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist from the church webpage

Alexandria, Virginia
St. Luke's Episcopal Church

Visser & Associates (Opus 127, 2001)


       MANUAL 1
Coupling Manual


       MANUAL II - Great
16'    Bourdon                          61 pipes   wood
8'     Principal                        61 pipes   75% tin Façade
8'     Chimney Flute                    61 pipes   20% tin                
4'     Octave                           61 pipes   20% tin                
4'     Nachthorn                        61 pipes   20% tin
2 2/3' Twelfth                          61 pipes   20% tin
2'     Octave                           61 pipes   20% tin                
1 3/5' Seventeenth                      61 pipes   20% tin
V      Mixture                         305 pipes   70% tin
8'     Trumpet 8'                       61 pipes   70% tin


       MANUAL III - Swell (Expressive)
8'     Gedeckt                          61 pipes   20% tin
8'     Salicional                       61 pipes   20% tin
8'     Céleste                    (FF)  56 pipes   20% tin
4'     Principal                        61 pipes   20% tin
4'     Harmonic Flute                   61 pipes   20% tin
2'     Recorder                         61 pipes   20% tin
IV     Mixture                         244 pipes   70% tin
16'    Dulzian                          61 pipes   50% tin
8'     Chalumeau                        61 pipes   50% tin
       Tremulant


       PEDAL
32'    Bourdon                          32 notes   (from 16’, bottom
                                                    octave electronic)
16'    Bourdon                          32 pipes   wood
8'     Diapason                         32 pipe    70% tin Façade
8'     Stopped Flute                    12 pipes   wood (from Bourdon 16')                        
4'     Choralbass                       32 pipes   20% tin                                
16'    Bombarde                         32 pipes   wood
8'     Trumpet                          32 pipes   50% tin


       COUPLERS
Swell/Pedal
Great/Pedal


       FINGER PISTONS
General                       1 - 8        
Swell                         1 - 4
Great                         1 - 4
Tutti                         (rev)
Zimbelstern                   (rev)
Gen Can


       TOE STUDS
Great to Pedal                (rev)
Tutti                         (rev)


       PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression             (bal.)


       MEMORY
SSOS c/a                   8 levels


NOTES
Mechanical key action, electric stop action
Installed November 18 - December 12, 2001

Stoplist from American Organist, June 2002 (pg. 46) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Alexandria, Virginia
St. Luke's Episcopal Church

Visser & Associates Inc., Opus 127, 2001

      GREAT                                 SWELL                           PEDAL

    8 Diapason                           8 Gedeckt                      16 Bourdon
    8 Chimney Flute                      8 Salicional                    8 Diapason
    4 Octave                             8 Celeste                       8 Gedeckt
    4 Nachthorn                          4 Blockflute                    4 Choralbass
2 2/3 Quinte                             2 Forestflute                  16 Bombard
    2 Super Octave                         Little Mixture IV             8 Trumpet
1 3/5 Tierce                             8 Hautbois                        Zimbelstern
      Mixture V                            Tremulant
    8 Trumpet



 [Received from Scott Crowell 2012-05-10.]

Websites

The Organ of Saint Luke\'s - Saint Luke\'s Episcopal Church - History and description, stoplist, photograph (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)