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The Ross King Company, Inc. (1994)

Ridglea Presbyterian Church: Chapel
6201 Camp Bowie Blvd.
Fort Worth, TX

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Images

2014-06-07 - Chapel (original church) exterior (Photograph by John T. Roberts - Historic Fort Worth, Inc./John T. Roberts)

Consoles

Main

2 manuals
10 stops
24 registers
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes

Notes

2007-02-28 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Attractive 5-sectional façade at the front with 24 pipes arranged: 3-6-6-6-3. Prepared-for 6 additional registers. Added from 1991 to 2000 as funds permitted. Completed in 2000. Now 24 registers, 10 speaking stops, and 12 ranks. -Database Manager

2013-05-07 - Updated through online information from Scott Crowell. -- The church also has a 3-manual, 62-rank Ross King organ (built in 2006) in its sanctuary. -Database Manager

2018-02-23 - Updated by Dr. Gregory Hamilton, who has heard or played the organ. -Database Manager

2020-11-24 - The organ has been relocated to the church's new facility on Southwest Blvd. and now functions as the sanctuary instrument. -Jim Stettner

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist from <i>The American Organist</i>, January 1993, and builder's web site ca. 1993

Fort Worth, Texas
Ridglea Presbyterian Church - Chapel

Ross King Company   1991
2 manuals, 10 stops, 12 ranks
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           GREAT ORGAN           source
 1.     8' Principal       80
 2.     8' Rohr Flute      49     2 + 5
        4' Octave          --     1
        4' Flute           --     2 + 5
 7. 2 2/3' Nazard (TC)     49 a   7
        2' Super Octave    --     1
 8. 1 3/5' Tierce          37 a   8
 9.        Mixture III    183 a   9

           SWELL ORGAN
        8' Rohr Flute             2 + 5
 3.     8' Gemshorn (TC)   49     3
 4.     8' Celeste (TC)    49     4
 5.     4' Flute           --     2 + 5
        2' Blockflute      32     2 + 5
    1 1/3' Larigot         --     7
10.     8' Trumpet         73 a   10
           Tremulant

           PEDAL ORGAN
 6.    16' Subbass         32     6
       16' Gedeckt         -- b   6 + 2
        8' Principal       --     1
        8' Gedeckt         --     2
        4' Octave          --     1
        4' Flute           --     2
       16' Trumpet         --     10
        8' Trumpet         --     10
        4' Trumpet         --     10

        a  added from 1991-2000
           as funds permitted
        b  Each of the 12 Subbass pipes
           plays from 2 valves. The
           Gedeckt 16' stop plays those
           same pipes at a softer
           volume by opening only one
           valve per pipe.

           COUPLERS
           Swell to Great 8, 4
           Swell to Swell 16, 4
           Great to Pedal
           Swell to Pedal


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2015-12-03]

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