St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church

College Park, MD – Opus 267, 1990, new console and digital stops, 2005

St. Andrew’s Church built their building in 1930 and contracted with Lewis & Hitchcock for Opus 164 in 1930, a two manual organ of eight ranks of pipes. As part of the centennial Celebration in 1990, the church awarded Lewis & Hitchcock the contract for Opus 267, a new three manual organ that would retain several ranks of the 1930 organ.

In 2005 a donor approached Dale Krider, Organist/Choirmaster, with a desire to add a set of Tower Chimes to the organ, plus whatever else would be useful to him. The 1990 console was not designed to be enlarged, so the plans were drawn up for a new three manual drawknob console, with an integral dolly system, which would include the Tower Chimes, playing from the tower in the rear of the church, as well as a number of new digital stops throughout the organ.

The Walker firm again provided the digital stops, many of which are copies of stops in notable organs throughout the country. The Tower Chimes are copies of Deagan Tower Chimes, which most organists know through Virgil Fox’s use of them in the Carillon de Westminster by Vierne, in the famous recording made at the Wanamaker store. A new Festival Trumpet provides a blaze of glory at the appropriate time. Other stops fill out the various divisions, including 32’ stops in the Pedal.

The new console has the control panel hidden behind a sliding panel. This controls the 224 memory levels, Transposer and other accessories.

The organ has been hailed as spectacular, and is often featured in regional events and master classes.

GREAT:

16’ Violone notes 1-12 from digital pedal, 13-61 from Choir 8′ Viola
8’ Principal 61 pipes, basses in left façade
8’ Flute Harmonique 61 notes, digital
8’ Bourdon 61 pipes, stopped metal
8’ Gemshorn from #9
3. 4’ Octave 61 pipes, basses in left façade
4’ Bourdon 12 pipes & #2
2 2/3’ Nazard from #21
2’ Fifteenth 61 pipes
1 3/5’ Tierce from #20
1 1/3’ Mixture II 122 pipes
2/3’ Scharff II 122 pipes
16’ Dulzian from #23
8’ Bombarde 17 pipes & #29
Chimes 25 tubes, in Choir box
16′ Great to Great
8’ Great Unison Off
4’ Great to Great

SWELL:

16’ Bourdon 12 pipes & #8, retained from 1930 L&H
8’ Diapason 61 pipes, retained from 1930 L&H
8’ Rohrflute 61 pipes, stopped metal with chimney
8’ Viola Pomposa 61 notes, digital
8’ Voix Celeste 61 notes, digital
8’ Gemshorn Celeste II 110 pipes, retained from 1930 L&H
4’ Principal 61 pipes
4’ Spitzflute 61 pipes
2’ Flute 12 pipes & #11
2’ Plein Jeu IV 244 pipes
16’ Bassoon 61 pipes, retained from 1930 L&H
8’ Trumpet 61 pipes
8’ Oboe 12 pipes & #13
8’ English Horn 61 notes, digital
8’ Vox Humana 61 notes, digital
4’ Clarion 12 pipes & #14
Tremolo
16′ Swell to Swell
8′ Swell Unison Off
4′ Swell to Swell

CHOIR:

8’ Viola 61 pipes
8’ Viola Celeste tc 49 pipes
8’ Gedeckt 61 pipes, stopped wood, rescaled from 1930 L&H
4’ Spillflute 61 pipes, stopped metal
2 2/3’ Nazard tc from #21
2’ Principal 61 pipes
1 3/5’ Tierce tc 49 pipes
1 1/3’ Larigot 61 pipes
1’ Cymbal III 183 pipes
16’ Dulzian 12 pipes & #23
8’ Krummhorn 61 pipes
Tremolo
Cymbalstern 8 bells
16’ Choir to Choir
8’ Choir Unison Off
4’ Choir to Choir
8’ Festival Trumpet 61 notes, digital, ordinarily non-coupling
Tower Bells 32 notes, digital

PEDAL:

32’ Bourdon 32 notes, digital
16’ Principal 12 pipes & #25, Haskell basses
16’ Subbass 32 pipes, wood, retained from 1930 L&H
16’ Violone 32 notes, digital
16’ Bourdon from #8
8’ Octave 32 pipes, basses in right façade
8’ Subbass 12 pipes & #24
8’ Rohrflute from #8
8’ Gemshorn from #9
4’ Choral Bass 32 pipes, basses in right façade
4’ Subbass 12 pipes & #24
2 2/3’ Grave Mixture II 64 pipes
1 1/3’ Rausch Quint II 64 pipes
32’ Bombarde 32 notes, digital
16’ Bombarde 32 pipes
16’ Bassoon from #13
16’ Dulzian from #23
8’ Bombarde 12 pipes & #29
8’ Trumpet from #14
4’ Clarion 12 pipes & #29
4’ Krummhorn from #23
Chimes from Great

COUPLERS:

8’ Great to Pedal
4’ Great to Pedal
8’ Swell to Pedal
4’ Swell to Pedal
8’ Choir to Pedal
4’ Choir to Pedal

16’ Swell to Great
8’ Swell to Great
4’ Swell to Great
16’ Choir to Great
8’ Choir to Great
4’ Choir to Great

16’ Swell to Choir
8’ Swell to Choir
4’ Swell to Choir

Great/Choir Manual Transfer, affecting keys and pistons
Fesitval Trumpet on Couplers

Pistons:
Under Swell: General 1-6, Sw/Ped, Sw 1-6, SFZ
Under Great: General 7-12, Gt/Ped, Gt 1-6, Sw/Gt, Ch/Gt
Under Choir: Set, Pedal 1-6, Ch/Ped, Ch 1-6, Sw/Ch, Gen Cancel

Toe Movements:
Left: Center: Right:
32’ Bdn 32’ Bomb
General 1-6 Ch/Sw/Cresc Gt/P, Sw/P, Ch/P, SFZ
General 7-12 shoes Pedal 1-6

224 Memory levels accessed by +/- pistons and through the LCD display (behind closing panel)
Transposer +/- 6 half steps through LCD display
MIDI IN/OUT/THROUGH Ports