Better Pipe Organ Database

Hall Organ Co. (1920)

First Church of Christ, Scientist
1615 N Street
Fresno, CA

Images

2008-03-21 - Church exterior (Photograph by historicfresno.org, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
3 manuals
25 stops
29 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2005-06-28 - Identified through information in <i>Classified List of Hall Organs</i>, published in 1929 by Hall Organ Co., West Haven, Connecticut. -Database Manager

2008-10-20 - Updated through on-line information from Thomas L. DeLay. -- Church is no longer First Scientist and is some sort of church that does not use the pipe organ. Rumors are that the organ has been water damaged. -Database Manager

2022-07-06 - The congregation moved and the buildings became the home of Power House Institutional Church of God of Christ in 1990. -Jeff Scofield

Stoplist

Source: From THE DIAPASON April 1920

   Fresno, California
   First Church of Christ, Scientist

   Hall   1920   3/25
   ________________________________________

   GREAT *                SWELL
8' Open Diapason      16' Lieblich Gedeckt
8' Gross Flute         8' Horn Diapason
8' Violoncello         8' Stopped Diapason
8' Gemshorn            8' Viole d'Orchestre
4' Octave              8' Viole Celeste
8' Tuba                8' Aeoline
   Chimes              4' Flauto Traverso
                       4' Gemshorn
   CHOIR               8' Cornopean
8' Geigen Principal    8' Oboe
8' Concert Flute       8' Vox Humana
8' Dulciana
8' Unda Maris             PEDAL
4' Flute d'Amour      16' Open Diapason
8' Clarinet           16' Bourdon
                      16' Lieblich Gedeckt
                      16' Dulciana
*  enclosed except     8' Open Flute
   Open Diapason       8' Closed Flute

 [Received from Jeff Scofield July 6, 2022]

Documents

Write-up from THE DIAPASON April 1920 Stoplist and commentary -Jeff Scofield