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Reuter Organ Co. Opus 1236 (1958)

First Methodist Church
120 S. State Street
Ann Arbor, MI

OHS convention: 1995

Images

2023-11-08 - Console (Photograph by Otto Jensen/Otto Jensen)

0020-04-28 - Church interior (Photograph by Church website, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

1995 - Chancel and exposed pipework (Photograph from an archival source: 1995 OHS Handbook, William T. Van Pelt, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
50 stops
36 registers
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: Adjustable Combination Pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1995. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Incorporates chests, the console and all but 5 ranks of W. W. Kimball, 1940. -Database Manager

2012-08-15 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Retained 16 ranks of the Kimball and added 28 new ranks. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Specification from factory specification and church web site Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Ann Arbor, Michigan
First Methodist Church

Reuter Organ Company   Opus 1236   1958        3 manuals, 50 stops, 44 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN                            SWELL ORGAN
     16' Quintaten           61             16' Lieblich Gedeckt    12 a
      8' Principal           61              8' Geigen Principal    73 a
      8' Rohrflöte           61              8' Gedeckt             73 a
      8' Hohlflöte (in CH)   61 a            8' Salicional          73 a
      4' Octave              61              8' Voix Celeste        73 a
      4' Spitzflöte          61              8' Flauto Dolce        68
  2 2/3' Twelfth             61              8' Flute Celeste (tc)  56
      2' Fifteenth           61              4' Geigen Octave       73 a
     IV  Fourniture         244              4' Flute Harmonic      68
      8' Trumpet             61 a            2' Blockflöte          61
         Chimes (in SW)      25 tubes      III  Mixture            183 b
         Great to Great 16                  16' Basset              68
         Great Unison Off                    8' Trompette           73
         Great to Great 4                    8' Oboe                73 a
                                             8' Vox Humana          61
         CHOIR ORGAN                         4' Clarion             68
      8' Concert Flute       73 a               Tremolo
      8' Dulciana            73 a               Swell to Swell 16
      8' Unda Maris (tc)     61 a               Swell Unison Off
      4' Fugara              73 a               Swell to Swell 4
      4' Lieblich Flöte      73 a
  2 2/3' Nasard              61                 PEDAL ORGAN
      2' Principal           61             32' Resultant (Bourdon) --
  1 3/5' Tierce              61             16' Diapason            32 a
    III  Cymbale            183             16' Bourdon             32 a
      8' Clarinet            73 a           16' Quintaten           GT
         Tremolo                            16' Lieblich Gedeckt    SW
         Chimes              GT              8' Octave              12 a
         Choir to Choir 16                   8' Bourdon             12 a
         Choir Unison Off                    8' Quintaten           GT
         Choir to Choir 4                    8' Gedeckt             SW
                                             4' Super Octave        12 a
                                             4' Bourdon             12 a
      a  Kimball ranks                       2' Bourdon             12 a
      b  Replaced III Scharf in 2012        16' Trombone            12 GT a
                                             8' Trumpet             GT *
                                             4' Clarion             GT *

         COMBINATIONS (32 levels)               COUPLERS
         General     12 (thumb & toe)           Great to Pedal 8, 4
         Great        8 (thumb)                 Swell to Pedal 8, 4
         Swell        8 (thumb)                 Choir to Pedal 8, 4
         Choir        8 (thumb)                 Swell to Great 16, 8, 4
         Pedal        8 (toe)                   Choir to Great 16, 8, 4
         General Cancel (thumb)                 Swell to Choir 16, 8, 4
         Set            (thumb)
                                                EXPRESSION
         REVERSIBLES                            Balanced Swell Pedal
         Swell to Pedal (thumb & toe)           Balanced Choir Pedal
         Great to Pedal (thumb & toe)           Crescendo Pedal with
         Choir to Pedal (thumb & toe)            indicator light
         Tutti          (thumb & toe)


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2014-12-06]

Documents

Write-up from THE DIAPASON July 1940 Stoplist and description -Jeff Scofield
(1958-04-22) Factory specifications, Reuter Organ Co. via Jeff Scofield -Jeff Scofield

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#41748 - W. W. Kimball Co. (1940)