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Newcomer Organ Co. (1972)

St. Luke Lutheran Church
9100 Colesville Road
Silver Spring, MD

Notes

2021-07-01 - Moller organ was rebuilt and enlarged late 1970s-early 80s, by Lewis & Hitchcock. New ranks were installed to increase the size of the instrument to be a 3-manual. The Great pipes live in window boxes in front of the two chambers (divided chancel). These appear to be custom built. The workmanship is neat, throughout. The chests in the chambers appear to be all/mostly older Moller. Because old chests were re-purposed, the layout of the pipes is a bit scattered. The church is a Tudor Gothic style, long and narrow, but a low ceiling, which hinders reverberation. Tonally the instrument is very much of its time, with an emphasis on certain high pitched ranks, but not complete enough to support them tonally. In recent years a new 3 manual Holtkamp console and new solid state relay have been installed. -Steven Bartley


Stoplist

Source: taken from console 2023

Great: 8 ranks, 11 stops
16’ Hohlflute 61 (1-12 Haskell)
8’ Open Diapason 61
8’ Harmonic Flute 49 (common bass)
4’ Octave 61
4’ Traverse Flute 12
2’ Super Octave 12
IV Mixture 244
8’ Trompette (Swell)
8’ Festival Trumpet (Echo)
8’ Echo Celeste (Echo)
Carillon
Great to Great 16
Great Unison Off
Great to Great 4
4 blank knobs

Swell: 12 ranks, 16 stops (enclosed)
16’ Quintaton 12
8’ Geigen Principal 61
8’ Rohr Bourdon 61
8’ Gamba 61
8’ Voix Celeste tc 49
4’ Geigen Octave 12
4’ Rohr Flute 12
2-2/3 Nasard (from Rohr Bourdon)
2’ Doublette 12
IV Plein Jeu 244
16’ Bombarde 61
8’ Trompette 61
8’ Oboe 61
4’ Clarion 12
Swell Tremulant
8’ Festival Trumpet (Echo)
8’ Echo Celeste (Echo)
Swell to Swell 16
Swell Unison Off
Swell to Swell 4
3 blank knobs




Positiv: 10 ranks, 13 stops
8’ Wood Flute 61
8’ Flute Celeste 110
4’ Bourdon 61
4’ Flute Celeste 24
2’ Blockflute 61
1-1/3 Larigot 61
1’ Piccolo 12
II Cornet 122
II Scharf 122
8’ Cromorne 61
4’ Musette 12
Positiv Tremulant
8’ Festival Trumpet (Echo)
8’ Echo Celeste (Echo)
Positiv to Positiv 16
Positiv Unison off
Positiv to Positiv 4
6 blank knobs

Echo: 3 ranks
8’ Echo Celeste 110
8’ Festival Trumpet tc 49

Pedal: 4 ranks, 16 stops
32’ Contra Bourdon (resultant)
16’ Subbass 32
16’ Hohlflute (Great)
16’ Quintaton (Swell)
8’ Octave 32
8’ Flute 12
8’ Flauto Dolce (Great)
4’ Super Octave 12
4’ Flute 12
2’ Principal 12
II Rauschquint 64
32’ Bombarde (resultant)
16’ Bombarde (Swell))
8’ Bombarde (Swell)
4’ Clarion (Swell)
4’ Festival Trumpet (Echo)
3 blank knobs

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