2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1999 -Database Manager
Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
St. John's Episcopal, Chapel, Chevy Chase, MD
1990 Laukhuff/Reuter
(Stoplist: Hilbus 250:4)
Right Stops
8' Stopped Diapason
4' Chimney Flute
Left Stops
4' Wiecking Principal Treble
4' Wiecking principal Bass
2 2/3' Twelfth Treble
2 2/3' Twelfth Bass
2' Fifteenth Treble
2' Fifteenth Bass
Mechanicals
Pleno off
Pleno on
Echo pedal
Loosely based on a Snetzler organ at William & Mary. A one manual organ in the English style. It has pedals, but they have neither any independent stops nor any controls. The pedals are simply a standard 32note, AGO pedaboard which duplicates the manual keys from CC to g.
The keyboard is 58-notes, but its compass extends from GGG up to f' with GGG# missing.
There are two stop knobs on the right side of the keyboard, and six on the left. In the stoplist which follows, they have been separately grouped. The two stops on the right side of the keyboard, the Stopped Diapason 8' and the Chimney Flute 4', extend for the entire compass of the keyboard. The stops on the left consist of three ranks, each of which is divided into bass and treble giving six stops. Fe division is between B and c).
The six stops on the left also have some special mechanicals associated with them. There is a foot pedal labeled "Pleno On" which puts all six of the left stops on. The companion is "Pleno Off' which puts all six of the stops off.
More useful is the echo pedal. The three ranks of the left hand stops are fitted with two sliders. One of these sliders is connected to the stop knob associated with that rank (or actually, half rank) and operates in the traditional fashion. The second slider is connected to the Echo pedal. This allows the Echo pedal to shut off or bring on any of the left stops which happen to be drawn, without moving the knobs.
The organ was dedicated in memory of Mary Studebaker Wiecking (1860-1944) and this was memorialized by giving the name "Wiecking Principal" to the 4' principal, which is in the facade.
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