Organ Specification – Halbert Gober Organ, 2007
Greenville, SC
The Gober organ at St. James Episcopal Church is a two-manual tracker action instrument with mechanical stop action. It is tuned in Kellner, a well-temperament, which gives a different sound and character to the various major and minor keys. There is not a combination action.
GREAT
Praestant 8’
Stopt Diapason 8’
Octave 4’
Recorder 4’
Fifteenth 2’
Mixture V
Trumpet 8’
SWELL
Chimney Flute 8’
Viola da Gamba 8’
Celeste 8’ tenor C
Principal 4’
Traverso 4’
Nasat 2 2/3’
Fife 2’
Tierce 1 3/5’
Cymbal IV
Oboe 8’
PEDAL
Subbass 16’
Principal 8’
Choralbass 4’
Trombone 16’
Tremulant, normal couplers, available via toe stud only
Suspended action
Mechanical stop action
Key compass 56/30
Key coverings bone and ebony
Modified flat pedalboard
Case of fumed quartersawn white oak in traditional mortise-and-tenon,
frame-and-panel construction; double panels in Swell section of case
Great and Swell on same level in main case; 8' height permits complete basses of 8' stops
including Viola da Gamba and Oboe as well as large swell shutters full width of case
Dimensions: main case, 18ft h x 4 1/2ft d; width 11ft (upper), 6 1/2ft (lower)
pedal (behind), 9ft w x 2 1/2ft d