Better Pipe Organ Database

W. W. Kimball Co. Opus 7081 (1930)

Scottish Rite Masonic Center / Albert Pike Lodge # 1: Auditorium
305 N. 2nd Street
McAlester, OK

Images

Unknown - Building Exterior (Photo in Temple Archives, courtesy of Andrew Schaeffer (2010)/Database Manager)

2016-03-14 - Builder's Name Stencil (Photograph by Andrew Schaeffer/Database Manager)

2016-03-14 - Console (Photograph by Andrew Schaeffer/Database Manager)

2016-03-14 - Chamber Opening (Photograph by Andrew Schaeffer/Database Manager)

2016-03-14 - Auditorium Pillars with Chamber Opening (Photograph by Andrew Schaeffer/Database Manager)

2016-03-14 - Swell Pipework (Photograph by Andrew Schaeffer/Database Manager)

2016-03-14 - Choir Pipework (Orchestral Oboe in middle) (Photograph by Andrew Schaeffer/Database Manager)

2016-03-14 - Swell Pipework (Diapason, Strings and Lieblich Gedeckt) (Photograph by Andrew Schaeffer/Database Manager)

2016-03-14 - Building Exterior (Photograph by Andrew Schaeffer/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Movable Console
3 manuals
40 stops
50 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
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: Computerized/Digital
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

2008-04-02 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

2008-04-10 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ has been restored by McCrary Organ Service of Oklahoma City, OK., and a Zymbelstern was added to the Choir. Source: e-mailed stoplist from Ed Hudson, Henryetta, OK. -Database Manager

2012-01-29 - Updated through online information from G. Mark Caldwell. -Database Manager

2016-08-16 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by Andrew Schaeffer, using information found in historical letters and office files.<br><br>When the temple was rebuilt and significantly expanded in 1930, the Kimball company was contracted to rebuild this organ to suit the new, large auditorium. The "new" organ of 1930 contains 19 ranks and selected ventil chests from the 1905 installation and 27 new ranks on EP chests. -Database Manager

2017-02-20 - Updated by Andrew Schaeffer, who has heard or played the organ. <br> -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from the console Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

McAlester, Oklahoma
The Scottish Rite Masonic Center

W.W. Kimball, 1930

Great
16’ Open Diapason
8’ First Open Diapason
8’ Second Open Diapason
8’ Concert Flute
8’ Gamba
8’ Gemshorn
4’ Octave
4’ Hohl Flute
II Mixture
8’ Trumpet

Swell
16’ Lieblich Gedeckt
8’ Diapason
8’ Stopped Diapason
8’ Spitz Flute
8’ Viole d’Orchestre
8’ Viole Celeste
8’ Salicional
8’ Voix Celeste
4’ Traverse Flute
2 2/3’ Twelfth
2’ Fifteenth
1 3/5’ Seventeenth
III Mixture
16’ Contra Fagotto
8’ Cornopean
8’ Oboe
4’ Oboe
8’ Vox Humana


Choir
16’ Contra Dulciana
8’ Violin Diapason
8’ Melodia
8’ Flute Celeste
8’ Dulciana
8’ Unda Maris
4’ Flute d’amour
2 2/3’ Nazard
2’ Piccolo
8’ Orchestral Oboe
8’ Clarinet
Chimes

Pedal
32’ Resultant
16’ Open Diapason
16’ Bourdon
16’ Lieblich Gedeckt
16’ Contra Dulciana
8’ Octave
8’ Bass Flute
8’ Flauto Dolce
16’ Trombone
16’ Contra Fagotto


 [Received from Andrew Schaeffer 2016-02-25.]