First Presbyterian Church: Sanctuary
5300 Main Street
Houston, TX
Images
Unknown - Church Exterior (Vintage Postcard, courtesy of T. Bradford Willis, DDS (1950s)/Database Manager)
2016-07-17 - Console (Photograph by T. Bradford Willis/Database Manager)
2016-07-16 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by T. Bradford Willis/Database Manager)
2016-07-17 - Manuals, Expression Pedals, and Toe Studs (Photograph by T. Bradford Willis/Database Manager)
2016-07-17 - Chamber Grillework (Photograph by T. Bradford Willis/Database Manager)
2016-07-17 - Chancel (Photograph by T. Bradford Willis/Database Manager)
2024-10-21 - Left stopjamb (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
2024-10-21 - Right stopamb (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
2015-11-30 - Church Exterior (Photograph by T. Bradford Willis/Database Manager)
2015-11-30 - Church Exterior (Photograph by T. Bradford Willis/Database Manager)
2024-10-24 - Church interior from balcony (Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2024-10-24 - Church interior from floor (Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2024-10-24 - Console (Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2024-10-21 - Console center (Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2024-10-24 - Chancel (Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2024-10-24 - Console up in its perch (Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
- 3 manuals
- 60 stops
- 4 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 (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Has sequencer
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
- Has tutti thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2006-11-17 - 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> Restoration of and additions (four stops) to Aeolian-Skinner Opus 912-A (1933).</i> -Database Manager
2011-09-18 - Updated through online information from Stephen Hall. -- Schoenstein renovated the organ in 1992/93 and added nine ranks of pipes plus two digital 32' stops for the pedal. -Database Manager
2013-07-02 - Updated through online information from David McCrary. -- Console is located in the choir loft on the right hand side, not in view of the congregation. Some pipes are exposed and located across the chancel area on the left-hand side of the choir loft. -Database Manager
2013-11-18 - Updated through online information from Emory Glover. -- Opus # 912 was built and installed in 1933 for temporary use in the basement Fellowship Hall used for worship after the downtown Sanctuary burned. Opus # 912A was built from scratch for Sanctuary of the new edifice farther out Main Street in the Museum District in 1949, and the 1933 Opus # 912 was moved and installed in the Chapel. -Database Manager
2013-12-04 - Updated through online information from Emory Glover. -Database Manager
2018-02-26 - Updated by Emory Glover -Database Manager
Stoplist
Stoplist from Church website Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
First Presbyterian Church
Houston, Texas
Aeolian-Skinner Opus 912A, installed 1949
Rebuilt by Schoenstein, 1993
GREAT
16 Quintaten 61
8 Diapason I 61
8 Diapason II 61
8 Harmonic Flute 61 added by Schoenstein
8 Spitzflöte 61
8 Bourdon 61
4 Principal 61
4 Rohrflöte 61
2 2/3 Quinte 61
2 Super Octave 61
Fourniture IV 244
Cymbel III 183
8 Trompette 61
4 Clairon 61
8 Tuba -- Choir
Chimes
SWELL
16 Lieblich Gedackt 68
8 Diapason 68
8 Chimney Flute 68
8 Viole de Gambe 68
8 Viole Celeste 68
8 Flauto Dolce 68
8 Flute Celeste 56 tenor C
4 Principal 68
4 Flute Triangulaire 68
2 Flautino 61
Plein Jeu III 183
16 Contre Trompette 68 added by Schoenstein, replaced Fagotto
8 Trompette 68
8 Oboe 68
8 Vox Humana 68
4 Clairon 68
Tremolo
CHOIR
16 Dulciana 68
8 Diapason 68
8 Nason Flute 68
8 Viola 68
8 Dolcan 68
8 Dolcan Celeste 56 tenor C
4 Gemshorn 68
4 Koppelflöte 68
2 2/3 Nazard 61
2 Blockflöte 61
1 3/5 Tierce 61
Plein Jeu IV-V 295 added by Schoenstein
16 English Horn 68
8 Cromorne 68
4 Rohr Schalmei 68
Tremolo
8 Tuba 61 added by Schoenstein
PEDAL
32 Contra Bourdon -- digital
16 Principal 32
16 Bourdon 32
16 Lieblich Gedeckt -- SW
16 Quintaten -- GT
16 Dulciana -- CH
8 Principal 32
8 Flute 32
8 Still Gedeckt -- SW
5 1/3 Quint 32
4 Choralbass 32
4 Flute 32
2 Blockflöte 32
Fourniture IV 128
32 Contra Bombarde -- digital
16 Bombarde 32
16 Fagotto 32 originally in Swell
8 Trompette 12
4 Clairon 12
4 Chalumeau 32 added by Schoenstein
[Received from Stephen Hall 2011-09-18.]
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