Better Pipe Organ Database

Visser-Rowland Associates Opus 35 (1981)

Second Baptist Church: Hankamer Chapel; front
6400 Woodway
Houston, TX

Images

ca. 1981 - Organ case at front, right (Photograph from an archival source: Builder's 1980's promotional brochure, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2013-07-16 - Organ Case (Photograph by Kenneth Warren/Database Manager)

2013-07-16 - Visser Rowland Console (Photograph by Kenneth Warren/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Detached, Reversed Keydesk (Mechanical Action)
3 manuals
9 stops
9 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: No Enclosed Divisions
Combination action: None
Has hitchdown couplers

Notes

2023-01-26 - This entry represents the installation of a new organ. Identified from a builder's promotional brochure and the opus list. The detached, reversed console has 3-manuals with the bottom being a coupling manual for Hauptwerk + Positiv. Manual-to-Pedal couplers are via hitch-downs. -Jim Stettner

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist taken from the console October 5, 2011

Houston, Texas
Second Baptist Church

Visser-Rowland, Opus 35, 1981

Manuals:  3; 56 note; Brustwerk (Upper);  Hauptwerk (Middle);  permanently coupled BW+HW (Lower)
Pedal:   32 note, concave, radiating
Action: Mechanical

    HAUPTWERK (unenclosed)
8’  Rohrflöte		
4’  Prinzipal		
2’  Waldflöte		
III Mixtur  1⅓'

    BRUSTWERK (unenclosed)
8’  Gedeckt		
4’  Kleinflöte		
2’  Prestant		
1⅓’ Larigot			

    PEDAL
16’ Subbass		

    INTER-DIVISIONAL COUPLERS
Hauptwerk to Pedal    (h-d)
Positiv to Pedal      (h-d)

Positiv to Hauptwerk  (coupling manual)


[Received from Kenneth Warren 2013-04-21.]