Better Pipe Organ Database

Kappler-Walton (1967)

Rockbrook Methodist Church: Sanctuary
9855 West Center Rd.
Omaha, NE

Images

1992-05-27 - Church exterior (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2014-11-12 - Console (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

2014-11-12 - Sanctuary Interior, Chancel, and Chamber Grillework (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

2014-11-12 - Nave (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
3 manuals
27 stops
34 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: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2012-07-23 - Identified through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Relocation of Austin Op. 1823 (1923) from All Saints' Episcopal Church, Omaha; two stops added in the early 1970's by John Hansen, who also refurbished the organ in 1983. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the console May 27, 1992 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

     Omaha, Nebraska
     Rockbrook United Methodist Church

     Austin           1932   Op. 1823
     Kappler-Walton   1967
     ____________________________________________________

     GREAT (*encl in CH)           SWELL
 16' Double Diapason  73       16' Bourdon             73
  8' Major Diapason   73        8' Open Diapason       73
  8' Minor Diapason   12        8' Rohrflöte           73
  8' Doppelflöte      73 *      8' Salicional          73
  8' Violoncello      73 *      8' Voix Celeste        61
  4' Octave           73        8' Dolce               73
  2' Fifteenth        61        8' Dolce Celeste       61
 II  Cymbel          122        4' Flauto Traverso     73
  8' Tuba             73 *      2' Flautino            61
     Sub                       16' Posaune             61
     Unison Off                 8' Cornopean           12
     Super                      8' Oboe                73
     Chimes ƒ *                 8' Vox Humana          61
     Chimes p *                 4' Clarion             12
     Blank                         Tremolo
                                   Sub
     CHOIR                         Unison Off
  8' Violin Diapason  73           Super
  8' Gedeckt          73 s         Blank
  8' Gemshorn         73
  8' Gemshorn Celeste 61           PEDAL
  4' Harmonic Flute   61 s     16' 1st Diapason        32
  8' Clarinet         73       16' 2nd Diapason        GT
     Tremolo                   16' Bourdon             32
     Sub                       16' Lieblich Gedeckt    SW
     Unison Off                 8' Octave              12
     Super                      8' Flute               12
     Blank                     16' Posaune             SW

  s  from E M Skinner Op. 673, Dundee Presbyterian, Omaha,
     and installed by John Hansen in the early 1970's

    [Received online from Jeff Scofield June 3, 2014]

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#13364†* - Austin Organ Co. Opus 1823 (1932)