Better Pipe Organ Database

Rudolf von Beckerath (1979)

Bowling Green State University: Moore Music Center
Bowling Green, OH

Images

2009-04-09 - Organ Case (Photograph by Allan Dieball/Database Manager)

2009-04-09 - Swell Pipework (Photograph by Allan Dieball/Database Manager)

2009-04-09 - Left Drawknobs (Hauptwerk and Pedal) (Photograph by Allan Dieball/Database Manager)

2009-04-09 - Right Drawknobs (Schwellwerk) and tremulant speed (Photograph by Allan Dieball/Database Manager)

2009-04-09 - Pedalboard, Tremulant, Expression Pedal, and Couplers (Photograph by Allan Dieball/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
16 stops
16 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 54 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

2004-10-30 - Also has von Beckerath 2-3. -Database Manager

2015-04-18 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from photos posted to OHS Database 2015-04-11 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Bowling Green, Ohio
Bowling Green State University
Moore Musical Arts center - Organ Studio


RUDOLF VON BECKERATH, Opus ___, 1979 - Original Specifications


HAUPTWERK (I)                                COUPLERS (Hitch-down)
   8'     Prinzipal                 54          SW/Ped
   8'     Rohrflöte                 54          HW/Ped 
   4'     Oktave                    54
   2'     Waldflöte                 54          SW/HW
   4 f.   Mixtur                   216
   8'     Trompete                  54
                                             FOOT LEVERS (Labeled; l - r)
                                                Trem.                         (h-d)
SCHWELLWERK (Expressive II)                     HW/Ped                        (h-d)
   8'     Holzgedackt               54          SW/Ped                        (h-d)
   4'     Rohrflöte                 54          SW/HW                         (h-d)
   2'     Prinzipal                 54
   1-1/3' Quinte                    54
   2 f.   Sesquialtera             108       PEDAL MOVEMENTS 
   8'     Cromorne                  54          Schwellwerk Expression       (bal.)  


PEDAL                                        ACTION: Mechanical key & stop
   16'    Subbaß                    32 
   8'     Prinzipal                 32       VOICES: 16          STOPS: 16
   4'     Oktave                    32
   16'    Fagott                    32       RANKS: 20           PIPES: 992


NOTES
The organ is free-standing and encased with an attached, projecting keydesk with a
folding cover. The 7-sectional facade contains 33 pipes arranged: 5-3-6-5-6-3-5.
Stops are drawknobs arranged in horizontal rows on flat jambs. The Hauptwerk and
Pedal stops are on the left; and the Schwellwerk is on the right.

The Schwellwerk is in Brustwerk position above the keydesk, and the expression
louvers are transparent.

Sources: Von Beckerath website; OHS Database photos

 [Received from James R. Stettner 2015-04-12.]