First Baptist Church: Sanctuary
209 East South Street
Longview, TX
Images
Unknown - Church exterior (Vintage Postcard, courtesy of T. Bradford Willis, DDS (1950s)/Database Manager)
2017-11-09 - Console (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
2017-11-09 - Console to right (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
2017-11-09 - Console to left (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
2017-11-09 - Great Chamber Interior (Photograph by Mark McGuire/Database Manager)
2017-11-09 - North chamber grille (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
2017-11-09 - Gallery chamber grille (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
2017-11-09 - Chancel and window (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
2017-11-09 - Sanctuary interior (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
2017-11-09 - Sanctuary interior angle (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
2017-11-04 - Church exterior (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
Unknown - Church exterior (Postcard courtesy of T. Bradford Willis/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- 4 manuals
- 59 stops
- 70 registers
- 5 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 crescendo
- Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
Notes
2004-10-30 - Contract dated 1949. -Database Manager
2008-05-23 - 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> Installed in 1951; extant; unaltered.</i> -Database Manager
Stoplist
From Allen Kinzey via <i>The Aeolian-Skinner Archives</i> Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Longview, Texas
First Baptist Church
Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co., Inc. Opus 1174 1949 4 manuals, 59 stops, 85 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN (II) SWELL ORGAN (III)
16' Quintaten 61 16' Gedeckt 73
8' Principal 61 8' Geigenprinzipal 73
8' Flute Harmonique 61 8' Gedeckt 12
8' Spitzflöte 61 8' Viole de Gambe 73
4' Octave 61 8' Viole Celeste 73
4' Flute Couverte 61 8' Flute Celeste II 134
2 2/3' Twelfth 61 4' Principal 73
2' Fifteenth 61 4' Flute Triangulaire 73
VI Fourniture 366 2 2/3' Nasard 61
IV Cymbal 244 2' Octavin 61
Chimes III Plein Jeu 183
8' Harp (TC) CH III Scharf 183
4' Celesta CH 16' Bombarde 73
8' Trompette 73
CHOIR ORGAN (I) 8' Hautbois 73
8' Concert Flute 73 4' Clairon 73
8' Viola 73 Tremulant
8' Viola Celeste 73
8' Dolcan 73 PEDAL ORGAN
8' Dolcan Celeste (TC) 61 32' Bourdon 5
8' Gamba Celeste II 146 16' Contrebasse 32
4' Spitzprinzipal 73 16' Bourdon 32
III Kleinmixtur 183 16' Viola 32
16' Fagot 73 16' Gedeckt SW
8' Trompette 73 16' Quintaten GT
8' English Horn 73 8' Principal 32
8' Cromorne 73 8' Spitzflöte 32
Tremulant 8' Bourdon 12
8' Harp (TC) -- 8' Viola 12
4' Celesta 8' Gedeckt SW
4' Choralbass 32
POSITIV ORGAN (I) 4' Nachthorn 32
8' Nason Flute 61 III Fourniture 96
4' Nachthorn 61 32' Bombarde 12 SW
2 2/3' Nasard 61 16' Ophicleide 32
2' Blockflöte 61 16' Bombarde SW
1 3/5' Tierce 61 8' Posaune 12
1' Sifflöte 61 4' Clarion 12
16' Gallery Bourdon 12 GAL
BOMBARDE ORGAN (IV)
8' Trompette Harmonique 61
4' Clairon Harmonique 61
IV-VI Cornet 311
GALLERY ORGAN (IV)
8' Bourdon 73
4' Principal 73
IV Fourniture 244
Chimes GT
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2014-09-20]
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