Better Pipe Organ Database

J. Allen Farmer, Inc. (1978)

First Presbyterian Church
Griffin, GA

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
15 registers
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: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: None
Has coupler thumb pistons

Notes

2009-01-17 - Identified through online information from Kristin Farmer. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from Kristin Farmer. On-line update from Kristin Farmer. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Griffin, Georgia
First Presbyterian Church

Organ by Henry Pilcher's Sons

Stop list        

Great    
Open Diapason        8    
Melodia              8    
Dulciana             8  common bass with Melodia    
Octave               4         

Swell    
Violin Diapason      8    
Stopped Diapason     8    
Flute Harmonique     4    
Dolce                8  (REPLACED WITH NAZARD 2 2/3        

Pedal    
Bourdon             16        

Great to Pedal    
Swell to Pedal    
Swell to Great    
Swell to Great at Octave     

Bellows Signal    

Swell Tremulant     

Original cost $1500   with %5, $75 charge deducted/ and $50 deducted for another 
reason so church paid a final charge of  $1375.   Information from original Organ     
Contract specifying "Specification No. 25."

[Received on line from Kristin Farmer January16, 2009.]

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