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Bradley Rule / B. Rule & Co. (2000ca.)

Covenant Church / Covenant Baptist
4949 Caroline St.
Houston, TX

Images

2012-06-23 - Fa?ade (Photograph by Carl McAliley/Database Manager)

2012-06-23 - Case from the side (Photograph by Carl McAliley/Database Manager)

2012-06-23 - Keydesk and Bench (Photograph by Carl McAliley/Database Manager)

2012-06-23 - Keydesk and Pedalboard (Photograph by Carl McAliley/Database Manager)

2012-06-23 - Keydesk Detail -Left Stop Jamb (Photograph by Carl McAliley/Database Manager)

2012-06-23 - Keydesk Detail -Right Stop Jamb (Photograph by Carl McAliley/Database Manager)

2012-06-23 - Reservoir Bellows (Photograph by Carl McAliley/Database Manager)

2012-06-23 - Great (Photograph by Carl McAliley/Database Manager)

2012-06-23 - Swell (Photograph by Carl McAliley/Database Manager)

2012-06-23 - Sanctuary and Fa?ade (Photograph by Carl McAliley/Database Manager)

2012-06-23 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Carl McAliley/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 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: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)

Notes

2004-10-30 - Relocated from Christ Episcopal, Lexington, Kentucky. The Great Dulciana stop was replaced by a 2' Principal to expand the Great principal chorus. The Swell Oboe, originally starting at Tenor C, was expanded one octave lower to be full compass, the bass octave being built to the same scale and measurements of Hook & Hastings Oboe pipes of that period. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 2004. -Database Manager

2005-02-08 - Information taken from http://www.covenanthouston.org/music.htm#2 in 2005. -Database Manager

2006-11-22 - Relocated from Christ Episcopal, Lexington, Kentucky and rebuilt by Bradley Rule. Dedicated 18 June 2000. The organ matches the description of Size No. 36 as described in a H & H brochure dated 1881. -Database Manager

2009-10-25 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist from Carl McAliley Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Houston, Texas
Covenant Church

1893 Hook & Hastings Opus 1556
Restored with tonal changes by Bradley Rule, 2000

STOPLIST

Hook & Hastings organ, Opus 1553
Covenant Church, Houston, TX 77004
 
Great:
8' Open Diapason (lower 18 pipes in case), zinc, common metal
8' Melodia, open wood
8' Stopped Diapason Bass, stopped wood
4' Octave (lower 5 pipes in case), zinc, common metal
2' Fifteenth, spotted & common metal [Replaced original Dulciana]
 
Swell:
8' Stopped Diapason, stopped wood 
8' Unison Bass, stopped wood
8' Viola, zinc, common metal 
4' Flute (harmonic from middle C), zinc, common metal 
8' Oboe, zinc, spotted & common metal [1-12 new]
 
Pedal:
16' Sub Bass, stopped wood

Couplers:
Swell to Great
Swell to Great 4’
Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal
 
Tremolo
bellows signal
balanced swell pedal
hand pump/feeder bellows

[Received via e-mail January 22, 2009]

Websites

Covenant Church [Organ page] - Description, history, stoplist, photograph (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

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