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Otto Hofmann (1979)

Consoles

Main

• Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
• Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
• 2 manuals
• 31 stops
• 3 divisions
• Key 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)
• Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
• Has combination thumb pistons
• Has combination toe pistons
• Has tutti thumb pistons
• Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2014-05-18 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by Julius Coyle, based on personal knowledge of the organ. -- -Database Manager

2014-06-06 - Updated through online information from Julius Coyle. -Database Manager

2014-06-08 - Updated through online information from Julius Coyle. -Database Manager

2024-01-30 - This instrument is being restored and hybridized with a Rodgers 351 D console. The console is now downstairs, but the organ remains in the balcony. The pipes will be played off the Great and unexpressed, but placed within the console in a way that allows the instrument to be played as Otto intended. Otto Hoffman grew up just north of here, and his family had connections to this congregation. -Tim Bauerkemper

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from the console Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

San Marcos, Texas
First Lutheran Church

Otto Hofmann, 1979
311 pipes, 4 ranks

Great

8' Prinzipal  A
8' Rohr Flöte  C
8' Gemshorn  D
4' Prinzipal  A
4' Gedeckt  B
2 2/3' Quinte  A
Blank  (plays Rohr Flöte at 2' pitch)
1 3/5' Terz  (prep.)
III-IV Mixtur  (prep.)
8' Fagot-Trumpette  (prep.)
Sw to Gt  (prep.)

Swell

8' Gedeckt  B
8' Gemshorn  D
8' Celeste T.C.  (prep.)
4' Rohr Flöte  C
4' Gemshorn  D
2' Prinzipal  A
1 1/3' Quinte  B
1' Octav  B
II Zimbel  (prep.)
8' Krumm Horn  (prep.)
Tremulant 

Pedal

16' Untersatz  (prep.)
16' Lieblich Gedeckt  B
8' Prinzipal  A
8' Gedeckt  B
5 1/3' Quinte  A
4' Prinzipal  A
4' Gedeckt  B
2' Prinzipal  A
16' Fagot-Trumpette  (prep.)
8' Fagot-Trumpette  (prep.)
4' Fagot-Trumpette  (prep.)

Pipe Analysis

Prinzipal - 85 pipes (A)
Gedeckt - 68 pipes (B)
Rohr Flöte  - 85 pipes (C)
Gemshorn - 73 pipes (D)

Note: no manual to pedal couplers. 
Gedeckt rank is 16-8, with the top 5 notes taken from the Rohr Flöte rank. 
Some of the notes in the 4' Gedeckt, 1 1/3' Quinte, and 1' Oktav are taken from the Rohr Flöte rank as well. This organ is similar to the Hofmann organ at Christ Lutheran in Austin, Texas, but much less complete.

 [Received from Julius Coyle 2014-05-29.]

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