Pipe Organ Database

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Visser-Rowland Associates (Opus 53, 1983)

Location:

Residence: Richard Forrest Woods
Houston, TX US
Organ ID: 6761

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Status and Condition:

  • This instrument's location type is: Private Residences
  • The organ is no longer extant; destroyed.
  • The organ's condition is unknown.
We received the most recent update for this instrument's status from Jim Stettner on January 26, 2023.

Technical Details:

  • Chests: Slider
  • 3 ranks. 168 pipes. 2 divisions. 2 manuals. 3 stops. 4 registers.
Manual I:
  • Chest Type(s): Slider chests
  • Position: In a case at the front of the room.
  • Built by Visser-Rowland
We received the most recent update for this division from Jim Stettner on January 26, 2023.

Manual II:
  • Chest Type(s): Slider chests
  • Position: In a case at the front of the room.
  • Built by Visser-Rowland
We received the most recent update for this division from Jim Stettner on January 26, 2023.
Main:
  • Built by Visser-Rowland
  • Manuals: 2
  • Divisions: 2
  • Stops: 3
  • Registers: 4
  • Position: Keydesk attached.
  • Manual Compass: 56
  • Pedal Compass: 30
  • Key Action: Mechanical connection from key to chest (tracker, sticker or mix).
  • Stop Action: Mechanical connection between stop control and chest.
  • Console Style: Traditional style without cover.
  • Stop Controls: Drawknobs in horizontal rows on flat jambs.
  • Combination Action: No combination action.
  • Swell Control Type: No enclosed divisions.
  • Pedalboard Type: Concave radiating pedalboard meeting AGO Standards.
  • Has Hitchdown Couplers
We received the most recent update for this console from Jim Stettner on January 26, 2023.
Database Manager on October 30, 2004:

This entry represents the installation of a new organ. Identified from a builder's 1980's promotional color brochure. Later, to Alison Luedecke residence, Del Mar, CA.

We received the most recent update for this note from Jim Stettner on January 26, 2023.
Stoplist copied from Visser-Rowland promotional brochure: Open In New Tab Originally published 1980's
We received the most recent update for this stoplist from Jim Stettner on January 26, 2023.

Instrument Images:

Organ case and keydesk: Photograph from an archival source: 1980's Visser-Rowland color brochure, submitted by Jim Stettner. Taken approx. ca. 1983

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