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McConnell Pipe Organ Service (1993)

St. John Lutheran Church
4608 Brambleton Ave.
Roanoke, VA

Images

2016-06-16 - Builder's and Rebuilder's Nameplates (Photograph by Joshua Starnes/Database Manager)

Unknown - Pipework (Photograph by Joshua Starnes/Database Manager)

2016-06-16 - Great Pipework (Photograph by Joshua Starnes/Database Manager)

2016-06-16 - Console (Photograph by Joshua Starnes/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
2 manuals
28 stops
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets Above Top Manual
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2016-06-23 - Altered and relocated existing organ. Identified by Joshua W. Starnes, based on personal knowledge of the organ. <br>This organ was originally built in 1962 by Charles McManis of Kansas City, Kansas, his Opus 52, and installed in the War Memorial Chapel at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. St. John Lutheran Church of Roanoke, Virginia, purchased the instrument in 1989 from Church Organ Consultants of Lynchburg, VA. James (Jim) McConnell of McConnell Pipe Organ Service was engaged to refinish and rebuild the console, make extensive repairs to the chest and install the organ in the new church sanctuary in 1990. Realizing that the instrument was inadequate for the church's musical needs, McConnell devised a plan for additions and completion for the instrument, incorporating them into the console. The existing windchests were totally rebuilt with electric pipe valves, four complete ranks of pipes plus three octave extensions have been added, and a solid state switching relay system was installed in 1990. The organ suffered major water damage from a roof leak over the Swell division in 1993 and was repaired. -Database Manager

2018-02-26 - Updated by Joshua W. Starnes, who has heard or played the organ. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from the console June 16, 2016 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Stoplist taken from the console June 16, 2016

Roanoke, VA
St. John Lutheran Church

The Charles W. McManis Co., Opus 52, 1962
Rebuilt with Additions by McConnell Pipe Organ Service, 1993

PEDAL                   SWELL                        GREAT
16' Subbass             8' Gedackt                   16' Quintaton
16' Quintaton           8' Gemshorn                  8' Principal
8' Spitz Octave         8' Gemshorn Celeste          8' Rohrflote
8' Quintflote           4' Principal                 8' Gemshorn
4' Choralbass           4' Koppelflote               4' Octave
2' Principal            2' Super Octave              4' Gedackt
16' Basson              1 1/3' Larigot               2 2/3' Twelfth
4' Hautbois             II Sesquialtera              2' Fifteenth
                        8' Hautbois                  2' Blockflote
Great to Pedal                                       II-IV Mixture
Swell to Pedal          Tremolo                      8' Trompete
                        Swell Expression Shoe                 
                        Crescendo                    Swell to Great

19 Ranks - 1,112 pipes


 [Received from Joshua Starnes 2016-07-05.]

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#58573†* - Charles W. McManis Co. Opus 52 (1962)