1920-11-11 - Chancel and Organ Case (Photograph from *Church and Sunday-School Buildings* by P. E. Burroughs; image courtesy of Steven Lawson/Database Manager)
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2008-10-04 - Identified through a photograph that shows a broad facade, stenciled pipes, and what appears to be a console 'en fenetre': Burroughs, P. E. *Church and Sunday-School Buildings*. (Nashville: Sunday School Board, Southern Baptist Convention, 1920), p. 72 -Database Manager
2016-10-31 - The Articles of Agreement (July 21, 1890) show that this was Odell's "Scheme 51" with an added 46-note Vox Humana. Cost $5625 ($5450 + $175 for Vox Humana) -Database Manager
2024-09-07 - Updated through online information from Jerry Aultman (September 6, 2024): This organ is no longer extant. -Jim Stettner
Specification from Organ Historical Society Archives, courtesy Bynum Petty Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Dallas, Texas
First Baptist Church
J.H. & C.S. Odell Opus 287 1890 3 manuals, 28 stops, 32 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN SWELL ORGAN
8' Open Diapason 58 16' Bourdon 58
8' Viola di Gamba 58 8' Open Diapason 58
8' Gross Flöte 58 8' Salicional 58
4' Octave 58 8' Stopped Diapason 58
2 2/3' Twelfth 58 4' Violina 58
2' Fifteenth 58 4' Flauto Traverso 58
Mixture 3 ranks 174 2' Flautina 58
8' Trumpet 58 Cornet 3 ranks 174
8' Cornopean 58
CHOIR ORGAN 8' Oboe 58
8' Geigen Principal 58 8' Vox Humana (TC) 46
8' Dulciana 58
8' Concert Flute 58 PEDAL ORGAN
4' Rohr Flöte 58 16' Open Diapason 30
2' Piccolo 58 16' Bourdon 30
8' Clarinet 58 8' Violoncello 30
COUPLERS MECHANICAL ACCESSORIES
Swell to Great Swell Tremulant
Choir to Great Bellows Signal
Swell to Choir Wind Indicator
Great to Pedal Balance Swell Pedal
Swell to Pedal
Choir to Pedal PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Reversible, Swell to Great * Swell Organ Forte
Reversible, Great to Pedal * Swell Organ Piano
* over Great Organ
PNEUMATIC COMPOSITIONS
"8 pneumatic compositions on Great
organ, to be worked by piston knobs
placed under Great organ keys."
"Pneumatic compensating valves to be
applied to Great, Swell, Choir and
Pedal organs, thereby giving each
pipe a full supply of wind, and an
easy touch and quick response to
the keys."
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2016-10-31]
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