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Reuter Organ Co. Opus 935 (1951)

First Baptist Church
Florence, SC

Images

2014-03-08 - Console (Photograph by Carson Myers/Database Manager)

2014-03-08 - Church interior - Chancel (Photograph by Carson Myers/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
4 manuals
46 stops
65 registers
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Computerized/Digital
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2005-11-24 - Identified from the Reuter Opus List, provided by Chris Leaver, Reuter Organ Co., November, 2005. -Database Manager

2014-03-26 - Updated through online information from Carson Myers. -Database Manager

2018-03-29 - Received a new 4-manual Schantz console in 1986 as Schantz #1838. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from <i>The American Organist</i> August 1952 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       Florence, South Carolina
       First Baptist Church

       Reuter   Op. 935   1951   4/52

       A photo of this console was used in Reuter sales
       catalogs for a number of years; it was also seen
       in many encyclopedias when you looked under PIPE
       ORGAN, used to show what a console looked like.
       ___________________________________________________

       GREAT (encl w/CH)              SWELL
   16' Principal        61        16' Flute Conique     73
    8' Diapason         61         8' Geigen Diapason   73
    8' Principal        12	   8' Rohrflöte	        73	
    8' Bourdon          61	   8' Salicional        73
    8' Gemshorn         61         8' Voix Celeste      61
    4' Octave           61         8' Spitzflöte        73
    4' Flute Harmonic   61         4' Geigen Principal  73
2 2/3' Quint            61	   4' Flute ⌂		73				
    2' Super Octave     61	   2' Super Octave	61
   IV  Fourniture      244	 III  Plein Jeu        183
       Sub			  16' Contra Fagotta	12
       Unison Off		   8' Trompette		73
       Super			   8' Flugel Horn	73
       Chimes           SO	   8' Vox Humana	61
				   4' Clarion	        61
       CHOIR			      Tremolo
    8' Concert Flute    73	      Sub
    8' Viola            73	      Unison Off
    8' Dulciana         73	      Super
    8' Unda Maris       61
    4' Nachthorn        73	      PEDAL
2 2/3' Nasard           61	  16' Diapason		32
    2' Blockflöte       61	  16' Major Bass	32
1 3/5' Tierce           61	  16' Principal		GT
    8' English Horn     73	  16' Rohrbordun	SW
    8' Clarinet         73    10 2/3' Sub Quint		 7
       Tremulant		   8' Octave 		32
       Sub			   8' Major Flute	 5
       Unison Off		   8' Principal		GT
       Super			   8' Rohrflöte		SW
       Chimes           SO	   8' Cello		SO
       Harp		       5 1/3' Quint	         7
				   4' Choralbass	 5
       SOLO-ECHO		   4' Super Octave	GT
    8' Claribel Flute   73	   4' Flute	        12
    8' Violoncello      73	  II  Mixture	        64
    8' Cello Celeste    61	  16' Bombarde	 	SO
   16' Bombarde         61	  16' Fagotta		SW
    8' Harmonic Trumpet 12	   8' Trumpet		SO
    8' French Horn      73	   4' Clarion		SO
    4' Harmonic Clarion 12	      Chimes		SO
       Tremulant
       Chimes           21
    8' Viola-Diapason   61
    8' Flauto Dolce     61
    8' Flute Celeste    49
    8' Vox Humana       61
       Tremulant
       Solo-Echo Sub
       Solo-Echo Unison Off
       Solo-Echo Super

      [Received online from Jeff Scofield July 12, 2012]

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