Better Pipe Organ Database

Gebrüder Oberlinger (1976)

University of Massachusetts: Organ concert room
151 Presidents Drive
Amherst, MA

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Images

Unknown - Organ Case and Console ((ca. 1976). Oberlinger "Information Nr. 8" promotional booklet; image courtesy of James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Unknown - Console ((ca. 1976). Oberlinger "Information Nr. 8" promotional booklet; image courtesy of James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Detached Keydesk (Mechanical Action)
3 manuals
46 stops
45 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1996 -Database Manager

2015-09-27 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Reverse-color manuals. -Database Manager

2025-01-24 - This organ is currently in storage in a university warehouse. Information received online from Jonah Erdman on 2025-01-23 -Paul R. Marchesano

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from an Oberlinger brochure Source: Oberlinger brochure Date not recorded

Amherst, Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts

Gebr. OBERLINGER, 1976 - Original Specifications


HAUPTWERK                                    SCHWELLWERK (Expressive)
   16'    Pommer                    58          8'     Bourdon                   58
   8'     Principal                 58          8'     Salicional                58
   8'     Hohlpfeife                58          8'     Unda Maris          (tc)  46
   4'     Octave                    58          4'     Prestant                  58
   4'     Rohrflöte                 58          4'     Spillflöte                58
   2-2/3' Quinte                    58          2'     Doublette                 58
   2'     Superoctav                58          1-1/3' Larigot                   58
   2-fach Sesquialter              116          1'     Sifflöte                  58
   5-fach Mixtur                   290          4-fach Cornett    [mounted]     232
   3-fach Cymbel                   174          5-fach Plein jeu                290
   8'     Trompete                  58          16'    Dulcian                   58
                                                8'     Hautbois                  58
                                                       Tremulant
POSITIV
   8'     Quintade                  58       PEDAL
   8'     Gedackt                   58          16'    Subbass                   32
   4'     Principal                 58          16'    Quintatön                 32
   4'     Koppelflöte               58          8'     Principalbaß              32
   2-2/3' Nasat                     58          8'     Gedacktpommer             32
   2'     Octave                    58          4'     Choralbaß                 32
   2'     Blockflöte                58          2'     Nachthorn                 32
   1-3/5' Terz                      58          4-fach Pedalmixtur              128
   1-1/3' Quinte                    58          16'    Posaune                   32
   4-fach Scharff                  232          8'     Trompete                  32
   8'     Krummhorn                 58          4'     Schalmey                  32
   8'     Vox Humana                58
          Tremulant
          Glockenspiel             (37)


ACTION: Mech. Key       VOICES: 46      STOPS: 46      RANKS: 65      PIPES: 3,420
        Elec. Stop    (inc. Glocken)  (inc. Glocken)


COUPLERS                                     ACCESSORIES
   Schwellwerk-Pedal                            General                       1 - 5
   Hauptwerk-Pedal                              Schwellwerk                   1 - 5
   Positiv-Pedal                                Hauptwerk                     1 - 5
                                                Positiv                       1 - 5
   Schwellwerk-Hauptwerk                        Pedal                         1 - 5
   Positiv-Hauptwerk                            1 freie combination 
                                                2 pleno combinations
   Schwellwerk-Positiv                          8 buttons to cancel reeds individually


NOTES
The Concert Hall organ console and casework are of oak. The console has Grenadill wood
naturals and genine ivory accidentals on Palisander. Palisander wood with white letter-
ing is also used for all of the rocker tablet stop actions and the finger pistons.

Sources: Oberlinger brochure

 [Received from James R. Stettner 2015-12-08.]