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The Samples Memorial Organ was dedicated on Sunday, August 21
at a choral evensong service followed by a recital by Mr. Will Thomas, organist
of Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church in The organ was purchased and installed in
memory of a Here is a description and stoplist for the new organ: Since 1958, the Rodgers Organ Company has been
acclaimed as the “Rolls Royce” of American built electronic organs. The Rodgers
Heritage 990 (handcrafted in The “Great Division” (center manual) is the
backbone and main substance of the organ. It is characterized by the unique
Diapason sound, available at 6 separate pitch levels. This Diapason Chorus is
backed up by a chorus of assertive flutes and crowned by a three-rank mixture.
All stops from other divisions can be coupled to the Great division at 16’, 8’,
or 4’ pitch. The Great division sounds
from the main, antiphonal (front), or both speakers. The “Swell Division” (top manual) contains the
more romantic imitative sounds. The Swell is named for its being an expressive
division, having the capacity to “swell” in volume as the expression pedal is
depressed. The Swell division of this organ is under independent expression and
contains a complete Diapason chorus (voiced softer than those of the Great
division), strings and flutes (along with a chorus of each), and many solo and
chorus reeds. The Swell division sounds from either the main, antiphonal
(front), or both speakers. The “Choir Division” (bottom manual) possesses
a lighter sound, and is named for the fact that this division most often
accompanies the church choir in softer works. To this end, it has flutes and
small scaled diapasons along with celestes
for use in accompanying the solo voices of other divisions. The Choir also
serves the additional function of a “positive” division, providing a boldly
voiced 4’ Principal, 8’ Quintade,
8’ Schalmei and 4’ Quintadena necessary for
performing music of the Baroque variety. The choir division sounds from the
main (rear), antiphonal (front), or both sets of speaker cabinets. The “Pedal Division”, consisting largely of
flue stops, is the foundation on which the tonal mass of the organ rests. With its wide range of pitches and sounds,
the pedal division is complete in itself, yet couplers are provided to bring
manual sounds down to this division. The
pedal division also contains several chorus reed stops to add the “snarl” and
“fire” necessary for full organ registrations. The deepest tone (32’ Contra Violone) is found in this
division, along with a complete complement of rich 16’ stops. For added
expression flexibility, the 16’ and 8’ foundation chorus of the Swell division
is extended to the pedal. The hand-crafted solid wood console of the
Rodgers 990 is in total compliance with AGO* standards and features three
61-note beveled and tilted wood core keyboards and a 32 note concave and
radiating solid wood pedalboard.
The console features lighted drawknobs,
computer capture combination action, 14 toe studs, 16 divisional pistons, 6
general pistons, 9 position transposer,
2 balanced expression pedals, balanced crescendo pedal, sforzando piston, 22 divisional couplers, 5
intra-manual couplers, 3 reversible couplers,
two octaves of bar chimes, and note-by-note voicing capability. Sound comes from 4 main speaker cabinets (each
containing 10 speakers), two antiphonal speaker cabinets (each containing 10
speakers), two sets of · American Guild of Organists RODGERS 990
STOPLIST GREAT
DIVISION 16’ Gemshorn 8’ Principal 8’ Bourdon 8’ Gemshorn 4’ Octave 4’ Spitzflöte 2 2/3’ Twelfth 2’ Super
Octave 2’ Blockflöte III Mixture Great to Great 4’ Swell to Great 16’- 8’- 4’ Choir to Great 16’- 8’- 4’ SWELL
DIVISION 16’ Violone 8’ Geigen Diapason 8’ Rohrflöte 8’ Salicional 8’ Voix Celeste 8’ Flute
Celeste II 4’ Prestant 4’ Nachthorn 4’ Gemshorn 2’ Doublette III Plein Jeu 16’ Fagotto 8’ Trompette 8’ Oboe 8’ Vox Humana 4’ Clarion Swell
Tremulant Swell to Swell 16’- Unison Off - 4’ CHOIR
DIVISION 8’ Viola 8’ Viola
Celeste 8’ Gedeckt 8’ Aeoline 8’ Unda Maris II 8’ Quintade 4’ Principal 4’ Koppelflöte 4’ Quintadena 2 2/3’ Nazard 2’ Flachflöte 1 3/5’ Tierce 1 1/3’ Nineteenth CHOIR
DIVISION (continued) 1’ Sifflöte 8’ Krummhorn 8’ Schalmei Harp Chimes
(bars in console) Choir
/ Great Tremulant Choir to Choir 16’- Unison Off - 4’ Swell to Choir 16’- 8’- 4’ PEDAL
DIVISION: 32’ Contra Violone 16’ Principal 16’ Bourdon 16’ Violone (SW) 16’ Lieblich Gedeckt 8’ Octave 8’ Flute 8’ Gemshorn (SW) 4’ Choralbass II Mixture 16’ Bombarde (independent) 8’ Trompette (SW) 4’ Clarion
(SW) Great to Pedal 8’ - 4’ Swell to Pedal 8’ - 4’ Choir to Pedal 8’ - 4’ 4 Swell pistons 4 Great pistons 4 Choir pistons 4 Pedal pistons (duplicated by toe studs) 6 General pistons (duplicated by toe studs) 1 General Cancel piston 1 SET piston Transposer, nine pistons Swell Swell Antiphonal On Great/Choir Great/Choir Antiphonal On Swell to Great reversible (piston and toe stud) Swell to Pedal reversible (piston and toe stud) Great to Pedal reversible (piston and toe stud) Reversible Sforzando
(piston and toe stud) Balanced Crescendo Pedal with indicator lights Balanced Swell Expression with indicator lights Balanced General Expression with indicator lights |