Better Pipe Organ Database

Hal Gober (2008)

St. Robert of Newminster Catholic Parish: Church
6477 Ada Drive
Ada, MI

Images

2010-07-29 - Console (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-07-29 - Church Interior and Pipe Facade (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-07-29 - Church Interior, Altar, and Pipe Facade (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-07-29 - Pipe Facade (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-07-29 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Movable Console
3 manuals
61 stops
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)
Combination action: Computerized/Digital
Has sequencer
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2010-07-30 - Identified through online information from Chad Boorsma. -- The organ was originally built by Reuter in 1991 as their Opus 2189. This work by Halbert Gober involved tonal revisions, resulting in an altered stoplist. -Database Manager

2010-12-18 - Updated through online information from Connor Annable. -Database Manager

2012-07-31 - Updated through online information from Connor Annable. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from the console (July 29, 2010) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Ada, Michigan
ST. ROBERT OF NEWMINSTER CATHOLIC PARISH

Built by Reuter Organ Company   1997   Opus 2189
Tonal Alterations by Hal Gober  2008
________________________________________________________________

GREAT:                          SWELL:
   16' Principal 61                16' Rohrflute 61
    8' Principal 12                 8' Geigen 61
    8' Bourdon 61                   8' Rohrflute 12
    8' Harmonic Flute 61            8' Viole de Gambe 61
    4' Octave 61                    8' Viole Celeste [TC] 49
    4' Harmonic Flute 12            4' Principal 61
2 2/3' Twelfth 61                   4' Hohlflote 61
    2' Fifteenth 61             2 2/3' Nazard 61
   IV  Fourniture 244               2' Blockflote 61
    8' Trumpet 61               1 3/5' Tierce 61
    8' Hautbois [CH]               IV  Plein Jeu 244
       Chimes *                    16' Trompette Harmonique 61
       MIDI 1                       8' Trompette Harmonique 12
       MIDI 2                       8' Trompette 61
                                    4' Trompette Clarion 12
PEDAL:                                 Tremulant
   32' Violone *                       MIDI 3
   32' Bourdon *                       MIDI 4
   16' Principal 32       
   16' Subbass 32               CHOIR:
   16' Violone [GT]                 8' Diapason 61
   16' Gemshorn *                   8' Gedeckt 61
   16' Rohrflute [SW]               8' Erzahler 61
    8' Principal 12                 8' Erzahler Celeste [TC] 49
    8' Subbass 12                   4' Principal 61
    8' Open Flute [GT]              4' Spitzflote 61
    8' Rohrflute [SW]               2' Principal 12
    4' Choralbass 32                2' Octavin 61
    4' Subbass 12                  II  Sesquialtera 122
    4' Harmonic Flute [GT]         16' Hautbois 61
   II  Rauschquinte 64              8' Hautbois 12
   32' Contra Bombarde *            8' Clarinet 61
   16' Posaune 32                      Tremulant
   16' Trompette Harmonique [SW]       MIDI 5
    8' Posaune 12                      MIDI 6
    8' Trompette Harmonique [SW]       MIDI 7
    8' Hautbois [CH]    
    4' Posaune 12 
       MIDI 8                       * digital stop

[Received online from Chad Boorsma • July 31, 2010]

Websites

GRAGO - Organs of Grand Rapids [Rober of Newminster page] - Console photograph, stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#22005 - Reuter Organ Co. Opus 2189 (1997)