Better Pipe Organ Database

Ballard Pipe Organ Company (2000ca.)

King of Kings Lutheran Church
13888 Dreamwood Drive
San Antonio, TX

Images

2015-02-28 - Sanctuary Interior and Chancel (Photograph by Alex Bridges/Database Manager)

2015-02-28 - Gallery Choir Loft and Pipe Facade (Photograph by Alex Bridges/Database Manager)

2015-02-28 - Pipe Facade (Photograph by Alex Bridges/Database Manager)

2015-02-28 - Console (Photograph by Alex Bridges/Database Manager)

2015-02-28 - Pedal and Swell Rocking Stop Tablets (Photograph by Alex Bridges/Database Manager)

2015-02-28 - Swell and Great Rocking Stop Tablets (Photograph by Alex Bridges/Database Manager)

2015-02-28 - Pedalboard and Swell Pedals (Photograph by Alex Bridges/Database Manager)

2015-02-28 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by Alex Bridges/Database Manager)

2015-02-28 - Swell Pipework ((including Horizontally Mounted Salicional Basses) Photograph by Alex Bridges/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
2 manuals
24 stops
3 divisions
Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: None

Notes

2015-04-18 - Organ relocated without any change. Identified by Julius Coyle, based on personal knowledge of the organ. -- -Database Manager

2015-05-03 - Updated through online information from Julius Coyle. -- After a fire in the church destroyed the previous organ, this organ was installed in 2000 or 2001. The previous home of the organ is unknown (the builder's plate gives 1997 as the installation year) but the mitering of the lowest basses of the Gedeckt rank indicate that this organ either had another home, or the Gedeckt rank was originally intended for a different organ. The lack of couplers, reeds, and mixtures means that the organ is fairly muted "at full cry", but the extensive unification means that a variety of tonal colors can be realized. The organ is located in the center of the gallery enclosed in an expression box, with pipes 1-49 of the 8' Principal rank exposed in the facade. The remaining pipes of the Principal rank is mounted in an offset chest behind the facade, in front of the swell shades. Pipes 1-21 of the 16' Gedeckt rank are located to either side of the expression box, with the lowest notes mitered. Two wooden screens block the Gedeckt pipes from view. The rest of the pipes are located in the expression box. The lowest notes of the 8' Salicional rank are mounted horizontally inside the enclosure. The Chimes are mounted on the left-hand wooden screen. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from the console February 28, 2015 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

San Antonio, Texas
King of Kings Lutheran Church

Ballard Pipe Organ Company, 1997
402 pipes, 6 ranks

Great

16' Gedeckt  B
8' Principal  A
8' Chimney Flute  B/C (1-12 from Gedeckt)
8' Salicional  D
8' Celeste  E (TC)
4' Octave  A
4' Gedeckt  B
2' Super Octave  A
2' Chimney Flute  C/B (50-61 from Gedeckt)
1 1/3' Larigot  B (55-61 repeat)
Chimes  21 bars (mounted to the left of swell box)

Swell

8' Gedeckt  B
8' Salicional  D
8' Celeste  E (TC)
4' Chimney Flute  C
4' Salicet  D
2 2/3' Nazard  B
2' Gedeckt  B
1 3/5' Tierce  F (1-12 and 50-61 repeat)
Tremulant 

Pedal

16' Gedeckt  B
8' Principal  A
8' Gedeckt  B
8' Salicional  D
4' Octave  A
4' Chimney Flute  C

Pipe Analysis

Principal - 85 pipes (A) (1-49 in facade)
Gedeckt - 97 pipes (B) (1-21 outside of swellbox, some basses mitered)
Chimney Flute  - 61 pipes (C)
Salicional - 73 pipes (D) (basses mounted horizontally)
Celeste - 49 pipes (E)
Tierce - 37 pipes (F)

Note: No couplers.

 [Received from Julius Coyle 2015-04-20.]