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Visser-Rowland Associates (1984)

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Houston Texas Stake: Memorial Ward Chapel
1101 Bering Drive
Houston, TX

Images

2017-05-10 - Organ Case, Facade Pipes and Console (Photograph by Corwin Slack/Database Manager)

2017-05-10 - Key Desk and Stop Tabs (Photograph by Corwin Slack/Database Manager)

2017-05-10 - Manuals and Pedalboard (Photograph by Corwin Slack/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
2 manuals
21 stops
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - The original builder was Geo. Kilgen & Son. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Origin of the Kilgen unknown. Rebuilt by Visser-Rowland in 1984. -Database Manager

2017-05-18 - Updated by Corwin Slack, who has heard or played the organ.<br> In 2016 Visser-Rowland Associates made the following changes: The updates are new slider motors, Solid State DC power supply, a Peterson 8 level combination action, and stop tablets, and a new 8' Trumpet, and replacement of the Krumhorn with an 8' Oboe. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed specification Source: from console photos by Corwin Slack Date not recorded

Houston, Texas
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Memorial Ward Chapel

Visser-Rowland Associates   1984         2 manuals, 21 stops, 26 ranks
Rebuild of Rubin S. Frels   1975
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         GREAT ORGAN                       SWELL ORGAN
      8' Principal           61         8' Gedeckt            61
      8' Holzgedeckt         61         8' Gemshorn           61
      8' Spitzgambe          61         8' Celeste            61
      4' Octave              61         4' Spitzflöte         61
      4' Rohrflöte           61     2 2/3' Nasat              61
      2' Principal           61         2' Waldflöte          61
  1 1/3' Mixture IV         244     1 3/5' Terz               61
      8' Trumpet             61       2/3' Zimbel III        183
         Swell to Great                 8' Oboe               61

         PEDAL ORGAN
     16' Subbass             44
      8' Principal           44
      8' Gedeckt (fr. Sub)   --
      4' Choralbass          32
     16' Fagott              32
         Swell to Pedal
         Great to Pedal

         Swell Expression Pedal            COMBINATIONS (8 levels)
                                           Generals   8
         Manuals: mechanical action        General Cancel
         Pedal: electric action            Sforzando
         Stops: electric action


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2017-11-25]

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