2019-04-19 - Great and Pedal Pipework (Photograph by Tim Link/Database Manager)
2019-04-19 - Console and 8' Trompette-en-chamade (Photograph by Tim Link/Database Manager)
2005-06-29 - This Organ identified through information received from Randall Dyer. New, includes 7 ranks and ivory keyboards from 1961 Schantz. Blackinton-style EP slider chests -Database Manager
2019-06-25 - Updated by Tim Link, who has heard or played the organ. The current organ of First United Methodist Church of Frankfort, KY was built by Randall Dyer and Associates of Jefferson City, TN in 1993 as No. 54, 2/37. Dyer utilized the ivory keyboards and 426 pipes from the previous organ, a 1961 12 rank Schantz. The organ before the Schantz was built by the Lucky Organ Company of Louisville, KY sometime during World War II. The first documented pipe organ at the church was built by Pilcher and Sons, also of Louisville, and was purchased in 1911. Considering that the current sanctuary was built in 1856, there were likely other instruments, but these are the only ones documented in the church literature.<br>An interesting side note: the organ case was built to accommodate the portrait of Christ, entitled “The Sacred Heart,” a copy of a work by St. Louis artist C. Bosseron Chambers. This picture had been present at the front of the sanctuary for many years and the church desired that it remain as a focal-point of the sanctuary and the new organ. They had it removed and restored by Old World Restorations of Cincinnati prior to the installation of the organ. -Database Manager
Original document from Randall Dyer. Source: Stoplist from factory records 2018-08-04
Frankfort, KY
First United Methodist Church
Organ by Randall Dyer & Assoc., Inc.
GREAT -
16' Quintadena 61 Pipes
8' Principal (facade) 61 Pipes
8' Gedackt 61 Pipes
8' Flauto Dolce (encl.w/Sw) 54 Pipes
8' Flute Celeste TC (encl.w/Sw)49 Pipes
4' Octave 61 Pipes
4' Koppelflöte 61 Pipes
2 2/3' Nasard 61 Pipes
2' Flachflöte 61 Pipes
1 3/5' Tierce 61 Pipes
IV Mixture 244 Pipes
8' Trompete 61 Pipes
Tremulant
Chimes
Cymbelstern
8' Trompette-en-Chamade TF-f54 49 Pipes
SWELL - (expressive)
8' Rohrflöte 61 Pipes
8' Viola 61 Pipes
8' Viola Celeste TC 49 Pipes
4' Principal 61 Pipes
4' Nachthorn 61 Pipes
2' Octave 61 Pipes
1 1/3' Quinte 61 Pipes
III Scharff 183 Pipes
16' Dulzian 61 Pipes
8' Oboe 61 Pipes
4' Clarion 61 Pipes
Tremulant
8' (Gt.)Trompette-en-Chamade
PEDAL
32' Resultant
16' Principal (facade 32 Pipes
16' Subbass 32 Pipes
16' (Gt.)Quintadena
8' Octave 32 Pipes
8' Subbass 12 Pipes
4' Choralbass 32 Pipes
III Mixture 96 Pipes
16' Posaune 32 Pipes
16' (Sw.)Dulzian
8' Trompete 12 Pipes
4' (Sw.)Dulzian
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