Better Pipe Organ Database

Schantz Organ Co. Opus 878 (1968)

Messiah Lutheran Church
3600 NW Expressway
Oklahoma City, OK

Images

1991-06-24 - Console to left (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

1991-06-24 - Console to right (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

2025-04-28 - Church interior to rear and organ (Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2025-04-28 - Church interior (Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2025-04-28 - Console to left (Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2025-04-28 - Console to right (Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2025-04-28 - Left stopjamb (Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2025-04-28 - Right stopjamb (Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2025-04-28 - Builder's nameplate (Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
23 stops
26 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
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)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2008-08-20 - Identified through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

2025-05-05 - Renovated by Schantz in 1997, with the addition of a Viola de Gambe in the Swell. -Jeff Scofield

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the console June 24, 1991 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

     Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
     Messiah Lutheran Church

     Schantz   Op. 878   1968   3/30
     ___________________________________________
    
     GREAT                       POSITIV
  8' Principal                8' Musiziergedackt
  8' Metallgedackt            4' Flachflote
  4' Octave               2 2/3' Nasat
 II  Rauschquint              2' Kleinprinzipal
III  Mixtur               1 3/5' Terz
  8' Trompete                II  Rauschzimbel
     Chimes
                                 PEDAL
     SWELL                   16' Prinzipal
  8' Rohrgedeckt             16' Subbass
  4' Harfenprinzipal          8' Ottava       12
  4' Harfenschwebung          4' Choralbass
  2' Blockflote              II  Rauschpfeife
III  Scharf                  16' Fagott
  8' Schalmei                 8' Fagott       12
     Tremulant                4' Fagott       12
                                 Chimes       GT

   [Received from Jeff Scofield December 3, 2012]