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Reuter Organ Co. (1950s)

Holy Name Roman Catholic Cathedral
730 N. Wabash Avenue
Chicago, IL

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Notes

2012-10-07 - Identified through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -- Identified by T. Daniel Hancock, using information found in The Stopt Diapason, Vol. 3, No. 1 [February 1982], pp. 7-14. -- Replaced by 4/117 Flentrop Orgelbouw, 1989. -Database Manager


Stoplist

Typed stoplist (Source: The Stopt Diapason, February 1982) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

      Holy Name Cathedral (Roman Catholic)
      Chicago, Illinois
      William A. Johnson, Opus 501, 1877
      Wangerin Organ Company, 1919
      Reuter Organ Co., ca. 1950's
      OHS ID: 50414
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      GREAT (*=expressive)[1]     SWELL (expressive)[3]   CHOIR                 PEDAL [7]
   16 Open Diapason            16 Bourdon               8 Concert Flute [N]  32 Resultant (derived)
    8 Second Diapason           8 Open Diapason         8 Dulciana           16 Open Diapason [9]
    8 Doppel Flute              8 Stopped Diapason      8 Vox Angelica [N]   16 Violone
    8 Viol da Gamba*            8 Vox Celeste           8 Unda Maris [N]     16 Bourdon
    8 Gemshorn [N]*             4 Violone               4 Principal [6]      16 Lieblich Gedeckt
    4 Octave*               2-2/3 Nazard [4]            4 Rohr Flute          8 Principal
    4 Flauto Traverso*            Mixture III [5]       2 Harmonic Piccolo    8 Bass Flute
    2 Super Octave             16 Fagotto [R]           8 Clarinet            4 Choralbass
      Mixture IV [2]            8 Cornopean               Tremolo               Mixture III
      Scharff Mixture III [R]   8 Oboe                                       16 Posaune [8]
    8 Trumpet*                  8 Vox Humana
    8 Trumpette en Chamade [R]  4 Clarion [R]             "All usual interdivision and intra-
                                  Tremolo                  division couplers, 16,8,4."
      NOTES
    N Definately not Johnson pipes.
    R Reuter additions.
    1 Prior to latest work had an 8 First Open Diapason.
    2 c1 pipe marked "Mixture/5rks/68 scale."
    3 Prior to latest work had an 8 Violincello [N] and 8 Salicional.
    4 Originally a 4 Flute.
    5 Originally labeled "Dolce Cornet".
    6 Originally at 8-ft pitch.
    7 Original Pedal was 16 Open Diapason, 16 Bourdon (wider than present Bourdon), 8 Violincello,
      8 Bass Flute, and 16 Posaune.
    8 CCC pipe marked "W.L. Fletcher, voicer"
    9 Haskell bass pipes.

      "It is presumed that a resonable portion of the stops not otherwise qualified above or of
      obviously modern tonal conception is original Johnson pipework."
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[Received online from T. Daniel Hancock, 2012-10-08]

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