First/Valley Baptist Church
5500 Olive Drive
Bakersfield, CA
Images
2023-03-24 - Console (Photograph by Ryan J. Ballantyne, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2023-03-24 - Church interior (Photograph by Ryan J. Ballantyne, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2023-03-24 - Pipework (Photograph by Ryan J. Ballantyne, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2023-03-24 - Church interior (Photograph by Ryan J. Ballantyne, via Facebook/Jeff Scofield)
2021-05-05 - Façade pipes and chambers (Photograph by Ryan J. Ballantyne, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2021-05-05 - Console (Photograph by Ryan J. Ballantyne/Jeff Scofield)
2016-05-01 - Choir Pipework ((Though all of the Sw, Choir and Solo indicate 73 note ranks, in all cases the top octave is not present in the chests)/Database Manager)
1988-06-30 - Chancel, console, and facade (Photograph by Jim Lewis/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
- Console position: Movable Console
- 4 manuals
- 99 stops
- 129 registers
- 7 divisions
- 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 (Details Unknown)
- Has crescendo
- Combination action: Computerized/Digital
- 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
2006-11-16 - Identified through information adapted from <i>E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List</i>, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: <br><i> Rebuild and relocation of Aeolian-Skinner Opus 886 (1932).</i> -Database Manager
2008-09-17 - Updated through online information from Noboru Sato. -Database Manager
2008-10-24 - Updated through online information from Thomas L. DeLay. -- Great Reeds: 16' Bombarde, 8' Trompette, 8' Tromba, 4' Clarion are no longer with the organ. These reeds somehow made their way to the Great of the organ in St. Thomas the Apostle Anglo-Catholic church in Hollywood. Similarly the Swell reeds: 16' Bombarde, 8' Trumpet, 8' Hautbois, 8' Vox Humana, 4' Clarion are in the Turner organ in Holy Family Catholic Church ("The UN Parish") in New York City. These reeds were replaced by Stinkens reeds by the installer in 1988. -Database Manager
2016-01-01 - Updated through online information from Dr. Phillip C. Dodson.<br>
First Baptist Church Bakersfield, CA (now Valley Baptist Church). The Swell reeds (16'Bombarde and 8'Trumpet) were indeed included in the UN Parish (Church of the Holy Family) in NYC. However the 8' Hautbois was destroyed in the first shipment to California from Harvard.<br><br> The 8' Vox Humana was prepared for only and the 4' Clarion is in storage in Riverside, CA. All this is as of 12/17/2015. -Database Manager
2021-05-06 - First Baptist Church left its downtown location and moved to the large new 32-acre facility on Olive Drive and was later renamed Olive Drive Church. Membership eventually dwindled down to around 250 and they sold the facility and property to Valley Baptist Church ca. 2014. -Jeff Scofield
Stoplist
Stoplist from booklet <i>Eighty-Five Hundred Voices of Praise</i> Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Bakersfield, California
First Baptist/Olive Drive Church
Aeolian-Skinner Op. 886 1932 4/133
Robert M. Turner 1988 4/134
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GREAT SWELL
16' Montre 61 16' Violon-Basse 73
16' Bourdon 61 16' Bourdon 73
8' Montre 61 8' Diapason 73
8' Diapason 61 8' Bourdon 73
8' Principal 61 8' Flûte Creuse 73
8' Gambe 61 8' Viole de Gambe 73
8' Bourdon 61 8' Voix Céleste 73
8' Flûte Harmonique 61 8' Flauto Dolce 73
5 1/3' Grosse Nazard 61 8' Flute Celeste 61 tc
4' Octave 61 8' Flûte-en-Bois 73
4' Prestant 61 8' Bois Céleste 61 tc
4' Flûte Couverte 61 4' Prestant 73
3 1/5' Grosse Tierce 61 4' Flûte Octaviante 73
2 2/3' Nazard 61 4' Fugara 73
2' Doublette 61 2 2/3' Nazard 61
1 3/5' Tierce 61 2' Octavin 61
V Cornet 185 MC 1 3/5' Tierce 61
V Fourniture 305 III Cornet 147 tc
IV Cymbale 244 IV Fourniture 244
16' Bombarde 61 IV Cymbale pf
8' Trompette 61 16' Bombarde 73
8' Trompete 61 16' Basson pf
4' Clairon 61 8' Trompette 73
Tremulant 8' Trumpet 73
16' Chamade CD 8' Basson-Hautbois 73
8' Chamade CD 8' Voix Humaine 61
4' Chamade CD 4' Clairon 73
Zimbelstern 6 Tremulant
Harp CH Sub
Celesta CH Unison Off
Super
CHOIR 16' Chamade CD
16' Bourdon 73 8' Chamade CD
16' Dulciana 73 4' Chamade CD
8' Principal 73
8' Bourdon 73 EN-CHAMADE
8' Flûte Traversière 73 16' Chamade 61 a
8' Viole de Gambe 73 8' Chamade 61 b
8' Voix Céleste 73 4' Chamade 24 a
8' Erzähler 73
8' Erzähler Celeste 61 tc PEDAL
4' Prestant 73 32' Contre-Basse 32
4' Flûte à Fuseau 73 32' Soubasse 32
2 2/3' Nazard 61 16' Contre-Basse 12
2' Doublette 61 16' Montre 32
2' Quarte de Nazard 61 16' Montre GT
1 3/5' Tierce 61 16' Bourdon 12
1 1/3' Larigot 61 16' Flûte Ouverte 32
1' Piccolo 61 16' Violon-Basse SW
V Fourniture 305 16' Bourdon CH
III Cymbale pf 16' Dulciana CH
16' Basson 73 8' Octave 12
8' Trompette 73 8' Montre 32
8' Cromorne 73 8' Flûte Ouverte 12
8' Corno d'Amore 73 8' Bourdon 12
4' Clairon 73 8' Flûte Doux 32
Tremulant 4' Principal 12
Sub 4' Flûte 12
Unison Off V Fourniture 160
Super 32' Contre Bombarde 32
16' Chamade CD 32' Contre Basson pf
8' Chamade CD 16' Bombarde 12
4' Chamade CD 16' Posaune SO
Harp 61 16' Bombarde SW
Celesta 16' Basson pf
8' Trompette 32
SOLO 8' Basson SW
8' Diapason 73 4' Clairon 12
8' Flauto Mirabilis 73 4' Basson pf
8' Gamba 73 8' Chamade CD
8' Gamba Celeste 73 Chimes SO
4' Octave 73 Blank
4' Orchestral Flute 73 Blank
VII Grand Fourniture 427 Blank
16' Posaune 73 Blank
8' Tuba Major 73
8' Trumpet 73
8' French Horn 73
8' English Horn 73
8' Corno d'Bassetto 73
4' Tuba Clarion 73
Tremulant
Sub
Unison Off
Super
16' Chamade CD
8' Chamade CD
4' Chamade CD a balcony left side
Chimes 25 a balcony right side
[Received online from Jeff Scofield October 4, 2013]
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