Better Pipe Organ Database

Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. Opus 1497 (1966)

First Baptist Church / Downtown First Baptist Church
401 Pine Street
Texarkana, TX

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
3 manuals
34 stops
24 registers
4 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)

Notes

2008-07-03 - 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> -Database Manager

2013-10-09 - Updated through online information from Douglas K. Morgan. -Database Manager

2013-10-09 - Updated through online information from Douglas K. Morgan. -- Church now called Downtown First Baptist Church. Old congregation built a new church in the suburbs, and it is called First Baptist Church. A Schlicker organ was installed there. The Aeolian-Skinner is still in its original installation. Douglas K. Morgan, formerly with Aeolian-Skinner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist Source: from Allen Kinzey Date not recorded

Texarkana, Texas
First Baptist Church

Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co., Inc.   Opus 1497   1966   3 manuals, 23 stops, 34 ranks
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         Stops without pipe counts are prepared-for
 
         GREAT ORGAN                              SWELL ORGAN
     16' Quintade                             16' Contre Viole             73
      8' Principal                61           8' Principal
      8' Bourdon                  61           8' Rohrflöte                61
      8' Gemshorn                 61           8' Viole de Gambe (fr. 16') --
      4' Octave                   61           8' Viole Celeste            61
      4' Rohrflöte                61           8' Aeoline                  61
      2' Flachflöte               61           4' Prestant                 61
         Sesquialtera II (TC)     98           4' Koppelflöte              61
         Fourniture IV-VI        300           2' Octavin                  61
         Cymbale III             183       1 1/3' Larigot                  61
      8' Trompete                                 Plein Jeu IV            244
                                              16' Hautbois                 61
         CHOIR-POSITIV                         8' Trompette                61
      8' Principal                             8' Hautbois                 12
      8' Cor de Nuit                           4' Clairon                  61
      8' Erzähler                                 Tremulant
      8' Erzähler Celeste
      4' Principal                                PEDAL ORGAN
      4' Spillflöte                           16' Principal                56
  2 2/3' Nasat                                16' Subbass                  44
      2' Octave                               16' Quintade (Gt)            --
  1 3/5' Terz                                 16' Contre Viole (Sw)        --
      1' Sifflöte                         10 2/3' Quinte
         Scharf IV                             8' Octave (fr. Prin)        -- *
      8' Krummhorn                             8' Gedeckt (fr. Subbass)    -- *
         Tremulant                             8' Viole (Sw)               --
                                               4' Choralbass (fr. Prin)    -- *
                                               4' Querflöte
                                               2' Blockflöte
                                                  Mixture IV
                                              32' Kontra Posaune
                                              16' Posaune                  56
                                               8' Trompete (fr. Posn)      --
                                               4' Klarine (fr. Posn)       --
                                               4' Rohrschalmei
                                                  * temporary


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2018-07-25]

Websites

Opus 1497: First Baptist Church - Texarkana, TX - [Aeolian-Skinner Archives web site] (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)