Better Pipe Organ Database

Geo. Kilgen & Son, Inc. (1905ca.)

First Christian Church
1515 South Street
Lexington, MO

Images

Unknown - Organ case and facade, ca. 1968 (Unattribted Photographer. <i>The Tracker</i>, Vol. XII, No. 4, Summer 1968, pg. 5/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
11 stops
11 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1976. -Database Manager

2019-10-21 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- According to the 'History' page of the Presbyterian church, the First Christian congregation merged with the Presbyterian congregation at the Presbyterian Church edifice in 2009. The First Christian building was sold in 2011. Status of the organ is unknown. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Lexington, Missouri
First Christian Church (DoC)

GEO. KILGEN & SON, Opus ___, ca. 1905


GREAT (61 notes)                             COUPLERS
   8'  Open Diapason                            Sw. to Ped.
   8'  Melodia                                  Gt. to Ped.
   8'  Dulciana
   4'  Octave                                   Sw. to Gt.
   2'  Super Octave

SWELL (Expressive) (61 notes)                FOOT TRUNDLES
   8'  Stopped Diapason                         Piano - 
   8'  Salicional
   4'  Violina
   4'  Flute Harmonique                      PEDAL MOVEMENTS
   8'  Oboe Gamba                               Swell Expression             (bal.)

Pedal (27 notes)
   16' Bourdon


ACTION: Mech. Key & Stop     REGSITERS: 11     STOPS: 11    RANKS: 11     PIPES: ___


(Stoplist: from <i>The Tracker</i> 12:4:7)