Better Pipe Organ Database

Estey Organ Co. Opus 959 (1912)

First Baptist Church
Terrell, TX

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

Images

Unknown - Church Exterior (Vintage Postcard, courtesy of T. Bradford Willis, DDS (1910s)/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
12 stops
13 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: None

Notes

2007-09-04 - Identified by James R. Stettner through information from the Estey Opus List, published in The Boston Organ Club newsletter, 1973-1979. -Database Manager

2009-10-18 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ was originally in the First Baptist Church. It was used from 1912 until 1956 when the church moved into a new building and the organ stayed in the old edifice. The organ was moved to the Terrell Heritage Museum in the 1980s when the old church building was demolished. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist Source: From builder's website Date not recorded

errell, Texas
First Baptist Church

Estey Organ Co.   Opus 959   1912
2 manuals, 12 stops, 12 ranks
________________________________________

         GREAT ORGAN
      8' Open Diapason          61
      8' Melodia                61
      8' Dulciana               61
      4' Octave                 61
         Swell to Great

         SWELL ORGAN
     16' Bourdon                61
      8' Violin Diapason        61
      8' Stopped Diapason       61
      8' Salicional             61
      8' Aeoline                61
      4' Flute Harmonic         61
      8' Oboe (labial)          61
         Tremolo

         PEDAL ORGAN
     16' Bourdon                30
     16' Lieblich Gedeckt (Sw)  --
         Great to Pedal
         Swell to Pedal

         MECHANICALS
         Swell Pedal
         Crescendo Pedal
         Several hight-down pedals

         Haskell Stop Action
         Tubular-Pneumatic Action


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2018-06-07]

Websites

Opus 959 - First Baptist Church, Terrell, TX [Estey Organs web site] - Photographs, stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

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#44274 - Unknown Builder (1980s)