Better Pipe Organ Database

Visser-Rowland Opus 26 (1979)

Villa de Matel Convent: Chapel
6510 Lawndale
Houston, TX

Images

1980's - Organ in rear gallery (Photograph from an archival source: Visser-Rowland 1980's color promotional brochure, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

3 manuals
21 stops
21 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Push-Button Stop Controls/Luminous Pistons
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons

Notes

2008-05-25 - This entry represents the installation of a new organ. Identified from the builder's opus list and a 1980's color promotional brochure. Updated through on-line information from Jim Steinborn. -Database Manager

2024-04-18 - Updated through online information from Christopher Hathaway: The Hauptwerk Mixture is a 2’ series, not 1-1/3’ as given here. There is an electronic combination action: four general pistons duplicated by toe studs and four pistons each for Hauptwerk and Brustwerk. Manual compasses are 56 notes, pedal compass 30. The third (lowest) manual is the Hauptwerk and Brustwerk permanently coupled. -Jim Stettner

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist copied from a promotional brochure

Houston, Texas
Villa de Matel Convent

Visser-Rowland, Opus 26, 1979


    HAUPTWERK
8'  Prinzipal
8'  Rohrflöte
4'  Octav
4'  Nachthorn
2'  Waldflöte
II  Sesquialter
IV  Mixtur  1⅓'
8'  Trompete
    Tremulant


    BRUSTWERK (Expressive)
8'  Gemshorn
8'  Celeste
4'  Prinzipal
4'  Blockflöte
2'  Octav
1⅓' Larigot
IV  Scharff  1'
8'  Krummhorn
    Tremulant


    PEDAL
16' Subbass
8'  Prinzipal
4'  Choralbass
16' Still Posaune


    COUPLERS
BW + Ped
HW + Ped

BW + HW   [coupling manual]


    FINGER PISTONS
Undocumented


    TOE STUDS
Undocumented


    PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Brustwerk Expression     (bal.)