Better Pipe Organ Database

W. W. Kimball Co. (1907)

Temple Rodef Shalom
4905 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA

OHS convention: 2010

Images

2010-07-26 - Sanctuary interior (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)

Unknown - Interior and Organ (Photo (1910) from Jim Lewis Collection/Database Manager)

2009-09-18 - Interior and organ (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)

1926-06-15 - Interior and organ (Vintage postcard, courtesy of James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

2024-05-25 - Console (S Repasky /Andrew Scanlon)

May 2024 - Tuba shofar in facade close up (S Repasky/Andrew Scanlon)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
4 manuals
51 stops
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1981. -Database Manager

2005-11-28 - Updated through on-line information from David Scribner. -- French-style terraced console - the combination action has been shut off due to leakage in that system. Manuals under contract for renovation -Database Manager

2007-01-22 - Updated through on-line information from David Scribner. -- Visited during the AIO 2005 Convention -Database Manager

2010-02-03 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- The action was electrified by Kimball in 1929. -Database Manager

2015-10-27 - Updated through online information from James W Guyer. -- The below stoplist for this instrument labels it as "opus 2156", built in 1906 and references the January, 1908 edition of the New Music Review. Upon looking through a copy of this journal, the corrected date is 1907, and no opus number is given anywhere in the journal.<br><br>Additionally, Kimball used KPO (Kimball Pipe Organ) to catalog their instruments, not opus numbers. And placing this as KPO 2156 puts it out of sequence with other Kimball organs built around the same time. -Database Manager

Stoplist

From <i>The New Music Review</i> (January 1908) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Temple Rodef Shalom

W.W. Kimball Co.   Opus 2156   1906       4 manuals, 52 stops, 50 ranks
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        GREAT ORGAN (open chest)         CHOIR ORGAN (enclosed)
     8' Bell Diapason       61        8' French Diapason     61
     8' Claribel Flute      61        8' Harmonic Flute      61
     8' Gemshorn            61        8' Spitz Flute         61
     8' Flauto Dolce        61        8' Salicional          61
     8' Dulciana            61        8' Dolce               61
     4' Octave              61        8' Quintadena          61
     4' Wald Flute          61        4' Fern Horn           61
 2 2/3' Nazard              61        4' Flute Octaviante    61
     2' Super Octave        61        2' Harmonic Piccolo    61
 1 3/5' Tierce              61        8' Clarinet            61
 1 1/3' Larigot             61           Tremolo

        SWELL ORGAN (enclosed)           SOLO ORGAN (enclosed)
    16' Bourdon             61       16' Contra Gamba        61
     8' Horn Diapason       61        8' Open Diapason       61
     8' Stopped Flute       61        8' Gamba               61
     8' Violoncello         61        8' Wald Horn           61
     8' Viol d'Orchestre    61        8' Flute d'Orchestre   61
     8' Viol Celeste        61       16' Tuba Profunda       61
     8' Aeoline             61        8' Tuba Shophar        61
     4' Flauto Traverso     61        8' Oboe d'Orchestre    61
     2' Flageolet           61
    16' Oboe d'Amour [sic]  61           PEDAL ORGAN
     8' Harmonic Trumpet    61       64' Diapente (resultant)
     8' Saxophone           61       32' Sub Bourdon         32
     8' Vox Humana          61       16' Open Diapason       32
     4' Harmonic Clarion    61       16' Contra Bass         32
        Swell Tremolo                16' Bourdon             32
        Vox Humana Tremolo           16' Lieblich Gedeckt    32
     8' Celestina [Harp]              8' Principal           32
                                      8' Violoncello         32
        COUPLERS
        Swell to Pedal 8, 4              COMBINATION PEDALS, MOVEMENTS
        Great to Pedal 8                 Balanced Pedal - Vox Humana
        Choir to Pedal 8, 4              Balanced Pedal - Solo
        Solo to Pedal 8, 4               Balanced Pedal - Swell
        Swell to Great 16, 8, 4          Balanced Pedal - Choir
        Choir to Great 16, 8             Balanced Pedal - Crescendo
        Solo to Great 8, 4               Solo to Great Reversible
        Swell to Choir 16, 8             Solo to Pedal Reversible
        Solo to Choir 16, 8              Swell to Pedal Reversible
        Great to Solo 8                  Great to Pedal Reversible
        Swell to Solo 8                  All sub and super couplers "off"
        Choir to Solo 8                  All couplers "off"
        Solo at Octaves                  Sforzando
        Swell at Octaves                 Pedal treble separation - gives
        Choir at Sub-Octaves               13 lower notes of any drawn 
        Pedal at Octaves                   pedal stop, the rest of the 
                                           pedal board sounding any
        ADJUSTABLE COMBINATIONS            optional manual coupling
        Solo     1-2-3-4-5               6 pedals to govern pedal organ
        Swell    1-2-3-4-5-6-7
        Great    1-2-3-4-5-6             ALL REGISTERS 
        Choir    1-2-3-4-5               Manual 61 pipes   Pedal 32 pipes
                                         No augmentations or "draw downs"


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2014-08-26]