Better Pipe Organ Database

Estey Organ Co. Opus 2450 (1926)

First Baptist Church: Sanctuary
209 N. Louise Street
Glendale, CA

Images

2012-01-15 - Rear Gallery and Grillwork for Antiphonal (Photograph by Matt Gerhard/Database Manager)

2012-01-15 - Chancel and organ screens (Photograph by Matt Gerhard/Database Manager)

2008-10-15 - Console (Photograph by Matt Gerhard/Database Manager)

2008-10-15 - Console - Stopkeys Left Jamb (Photograph by Matt Gerhard/Database Manager)

2008-10-15 - Console - Stopkeys Right Jamb (Photograph by Matt Gerhard/Database Manager)

2025-02-21 - Church interior (Los Angeles Chapter AGO/Jeff Scofield)

2025-02-21 - Church exterior (Los Angeles Chapter AGO/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
3 manuals
29 stops
42 registers
5 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys 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 toe pistons

Notes

2007-10-22 - Identified by James R. Stettner through information from the Estey Opus List, published in The Boston Organ Club newsletter, 1973-1979. -Database Manager

2012-08-29 - Updated through online information from Matt Gerhard. -- I was the organist at First Baptist from 2008-2010. Tonally this organ is untouched. The console and action had been updated several years ago. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from console October 4, 2008 and details from esteyorgan.com Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Glendale, California
First Baptist Church

Estey Opus 2450, 1926

SWELL
  16 Bourdon
  8 Open Diapason
  8 Stopped Diapason (ext.)
  8 Salicional
  8 Voix Celeste (TC)
  8 Aeoline
  8 Quintadena
  4 Flute (ext.)
  2 Flute (ext.)
  8 Cornopean
  8 Oboe
  8 Vox Humana
  4 Clarion (ext.)
     Tremulant
     Sw to Sw 16-4
     Sw Unison Off

GREAT (enclosed with Choir)
  16 Contra Geigen
  8 Diapason (Schulze)
  8 Gemshorn
  8 Gross Flute
  8 Clarabella
  8 Viola (voiced as Cello)
  4 Octave (Schulze)
  4 Flute Harmonic
  III Mixture
  8 Tromba
     Tremulant
     Gt to Gt 16-4
     Gt Unison Off  
     Sw to Gt 16-8-4
     Ch to Gt 16-8-4

CHOIR
  8 Melodia
  8 Dulciana
  8 Unda Maris (TC)
  4 Flute d'Amour
  8 Clarinet
   Ch to Ch 16-4
   Choir Unison Off
   Sw to Ch 16-8-4

ECHO (Playable and couples with Choir)
  16 Lieblich Gedeckt
  8 Lieblich Flute (ext.)
  8 Muted Viol
  4 Flute (ext.)
  8 Vox Humana (Gottfried)
     Chimes (located in Swell chamber)
     Tremulant

PEDAL (enclosed with Choir)
  16 Open Diapason
  16 Open Diapason (Gt)
  16 Bourdon
  16 Lieblich Gedeckt (Sw)
  16 Echo Bourdon (Echo)
  8 Octave (ext.)
  8 Bass Flute (ext.)
  8 Cello (Gt) (listed as Sw on the estey site, this is incorrect)
  16 Trombone (Gt)
     Gt to Ped 8-4
     Sw to Ped 8-4
     Ch to Ped 8

 [Received from Matt Gerhard 2012-08-26.]

Websites

Opus 2450 - First Baptist Church [esteyorgan.com] - Photographs, stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)