Better Pipe Organ Database

Wm. King (& Son) (1893)

First Methodist Church
South Denton Street
Gainesville, TX

Images

Unknown - Church Exterior (Vintage Postcard, courtesy of T. Bradford Willis, DDS (1911)/Database Manager)

2009-07-06 - Church Exterior (Photograph by John R. Brown/Database Manager)

Unknown - Church Exterior (Vintage Postcard, image courtesy of T. Bradford Willis/Database Manager)

2009-07-06 - Sanctuary interior and organ case (Photograph by John R. Brown/Database Manager)

2009-07-06 - Chancel and organ case (Photograph by John R. Brown/Database Manager)

2009-07-06 - Organ case (Photograph by John R. Brown/Database Manager)

2009-07-06 - Organ case in profile (Photograph by John R. Brown/Database Manager)

2009-07-06 - Facade stencilling detail (Photograph by John R. Brown/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
9 stops
3 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: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: None
Has hitchdown couplers

Notes

2004-10-30 - Rebuilt Sipe-Yarborough 1963, 2-11. -Database Manager

2007-06-26 - Updated through online information from Walter W. Davis. -- Their website has two pictures of the organ and states that it originally had 363 pipes: 85 wood, 278 metal. "Replacement" (?) pipes from Holland, not total of 600 pipes. Organ still in regular use. Sought information regarding flood in Gainesville 6-18-07. Church's website indicated no damage to sanctuary. I have not seen this instrument. -Database Manager

2010-04-29 - Updated through on-line information from John R. Brown, AIA. -Database Manager

2021-02-01 - This William King organ of 1893 is the oldest pipe organ in any Methodist Church in Texas. -Jerry Bell

Stoplist

Original Stoplist Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Great (58 notes)        
8  Diapason    
8  Dulciana    
4  Octavo        

Swell (58 notes)        
8  Bass (12 pipes, 1-12)    
8  Keraulaphone (13-58)    
8  Stopped Diapason (13-58)    
4  Harmonic Flute        
   Tremolo (Swell Only, Stop located with Couplers - Exhaust Tremolo)        

Pedal (27 notes)        
16 Subbass        

Couplers        
Great to Pedal    Swell to Pedal    Swell to Great      

[Received from John Dill July 8, 2011.]

Websites

Church History - Photographs and description of the organ (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#48182 - Sipe-Yarbrough (1961)