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Coleman Pipe Organ (2007)

First Presbyterian Church: Sanctuary; front (side)
501 N. East Street
Benton, AR

Images

2022-03-17 - Right stop jamb (Photograph by Timothy Bovard/Tim Bovard)

2022-03-17 - Left stop jamb (Photograph by Timothy Bovard/Tim Bovard)

2022-03-17 - Manual, pedalboard, and cast iron (balanced) swell shoe (Photograph by Timothy Bovard/Tim Bovard)

2022-03-17 - Builder's nameplate (Photograph by Timothy Bovard/Tim Bovard)

2022-03-17 - Keydesk (Photograph by Timothy Bovard/Tim Bovard)

Unknown - Chancel with organ facade in background, Advent 2011. (Photograph by Lisa Hester/Database Manager)

Unknown - Stenciled facade pipes, 2013. (Photograph by Lisa Hester/Database Manager)

2013-12-03 - Organ (Photograph by Lisa Hester/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
1 manuals
9 stops
10 registers
2 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: None

Notes

2007-12-11 - Identified through on-line information from Stephen Hall. -- Present sanctuary built in 1989 replacing one previously destroyed by fire. 1884 Jardine organ moved from another location according to article in Benton Courier (dated Friday Dec 7, 2007). -Database Manager

2007-12-13 - Updated through on-line information from Stephen Hall. -- According to article in the Benton Courier (Benton AR) dated Dec 11, 2007; the instrument served in a church in upstate New York until 1979, it was then acquired by the Organ Clearing House (OCH). OCH restored the organ and moved it to the current location. The facade pipes retain the original stenciling. -Database Manager

2013-12-09 - Updated through online information from Lisa Hester. -- The 1884 Jardine & Son, 1 manual pipe organ was built in New York City for a church in Chatham, near Albany. In the 1930s it was moved to another church in the nearby town of Stuyvesant. After the Methodist Conference ordered the church closed in 1979, the church was purchased by Jane Jessup Mayer, as one of Mayer's daughter took piano lessons from Mrs. Ogden, the long-term organist at the Stuyvesant Church who was very devoted to the instrument. Mrs. Mayers used the church as a wedding chapel for a while. <br>More than twenty years later, she sold the church but retained ownership of the organ, storing it in a barn. Benton First Presbyterian became aware of the organ through the Organ Clearinghouse and the Organ Historical Society. After learning that Mrs. Mayer, who has a passion for older churches, organs, and their preservation, was interested in donating the Jardine organ to a church with a history worthy of the organ, as evident here, in 2007 the organ found its new home at First Presbyterian Church, Benton, Arkansas (dedication 12-7-2007) after being cleaned and restored by Randall Wagner at the Organ Supply Company in Erie, Pennsylvania and installed by Gary Coleman of Coleman Pipe Organs, Benton, Arkansas. -Database Manager

2022-03-18 - This instrument was relocated to its current location approx. 2005, via the Organ Clearing House originally, who reportedly obtained the instrument from a private owner in New York State. Refurbishment and some modifications were made (well) at that time including replacement of original wind reservoir (which was already missing at time of relocation) and most likely, replacement of a spurious 4' Flute (which had occupied the Trumpet slide) with the current Clarinet style reed pipes. The Coleman Pipe Organ firm provided maintenance services for the instrument until approx. 2020, but records have not yet been located to suggest the Coleman firm took part in the relocation and re-installation of the instrument, and it bears no nameplate beyond that of Geo. Jardine & Son. -Tim Bovard

2022-03-21 - The original, 27-note, flat and parallel pedalboard has radiating sharps. -Jim Stettner

Stoplist

Source: Taken from existing console knob engravings 03/17/2022

LEFT JAMB Open Diapason 8 (#1-58, basses in front facade), Boehm Flute 4 (#1-58), Principal 4 (#1-58), Flageolet 2 (#1-58), Trumpet 8 (#13-58 (original pipes have been replaced with much newer Clarinet reed stop)

Right Jamb Clarinet Flute 8 (#13-58 ), Stop Diapason Bass 8 (#1-12), Oboe Gamba 8 (#13-58), Clariana 8 (#13-58)

PEDAL (non functional though knob can still move) Pedal Bourdon 16 (#1-27)

COUPLERS Pedal Coupler

PEDAL MOVEMENTS Expression (bal.)

ACCESSORIES Bellows

Source: Stoplist taken from the installers Coleman Pipe Organ specs on the organ dedication December 7, 2007 December 7, 2007

Benton, Arkansas
First Presbyterian Church

Jardine & Son, 1884

      MANUAL (Expressive - 58 notes)
8 Ft. Open Diapason              58  Basses non-expressive en facade
8 Ft. Clariana.            (TC)  46
8 Ft. Clarinet Flute.      (TC)  46
8 Ft. Stop Dia. Bass             12
4 Ft. Principal                  58
4 Ft. Boehm Flute.               58
2 Ft. Flageolet                  58
8 Ft. Oboe Gamba.          (TC)  46
8 Ft. Trumpet.             (TC)  46  Replaced with newer Cremona      
      Tremulant.

      PEDAL (27 notes)
16 Ft. Pedal Bourdon.            27

COUPLERS
Pedal Coupler

FOOT TRUNDLES
None

PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Expression                   (bal.)

ACCESSORIES
Bellows.


[Received from Lisa Hester 2013-12-08.]
[Updated/Corrected by James R. Stettner 2022-03-20 - from OHS Database photos.]

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