First Baptist Church: Sanctuary
159 N. Bellefield Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA
Images
2019-10-23 - Church interior (Photograph by Erikson Corbin via church Facdbook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
1980-06-30 - Sanctuary interior and organ case (Photograph from a 1981 Moller brochure in the collection of James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
1995-09-25 - Church exterior (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
1995-09-25 - Sanctuary interior and organ (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
1995-09-25 - Console (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
1995-09-25 - Console (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
- 3 manuals
- 42 stops
- 35 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)
- Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
- Has tutti thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2009-06-03 - Identified through information in <i>List of More than 5200 Moller Pipe Organs</i> (Hagerstown, Maryland. M. P. Möller, 1928). -Database Manager
2009-11-23 - Updated through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -- New console and possibly other work done by Möller in 1959; a beautiful Bertram Goodhue building with great acoustics, completed in 1911. -Database Manager
2014-03-28 - Updated through online information from Joseph Tuttle. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Stoplist from <i>The Diapason</i> April 1911 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
First Baptist Church
Möller Op. 1212 3/39 1911
1911 Stoplist
GREAT SWELL
16' Open Diapason 16' Bourdon
8' Open Diapason 8' Open Diapason
8' Stentorphone 8' Stopped Diapason
8' Gross Flute 8' Salicional
8' Gamba 8' Vox Celestis
8' Gemshorn 8' Quintadena
4' Octave 4' Traverse Flute
4' Flute Harmonique V Mixture
16' Tuba Sonora 8' Cornopean
8' Tuba Sonora 8' Oboe
4' Clarion 8' Saxophone
8' Vox Humana
PEDAL
32' Open Diapason 5 CHOIR
16' Open Diapason (w) 16' Dulciana
16' Open Diapason (m) 8' Open Diapason
16' Bourdon 8' Melodia
16' Violone 8' Unda Maris
16' Dulciana 4' Flute d'Amour
16' Lieblich Gedackt 2' Piccolo
8' Gros Flute (w) 8' Clarinet
8' Stentorphone (15")
8' Cello
16' Tuba (15")
1959 Stoplist
GREAT SWELL
16' Quintaton 8' Gedeckt
8' Open Diapason 8' Salicional
8' Hohl Flute 8' Viole d'Orchestre
8' Gemshorn 8' Voix Celeste
8' Gamba 4' Prestant
4' Octave 4' Flute Harmonique
2 2/3' Twelfth 2 2/3' Nazard
2' Fifteenth 2' Blockflöte
III Mixture 1 3/5' Terz
8' Trumpet III Mixture
4' Clarion 16' Dulzian
Sub 8' Oboe
Unison Off 4' Regal
Super Tremolo
Blank Sub
Unison Off
CHOIR Super
16' Dulciana
8' Open Diapason PEDAL
8' Melodia 32' Double Open Diapason 5
8' Dulciana 12 16' Large Open Diapason
8' Unda Maris 16' Small Open Diapason
4' Flute d'Amour 16' Bourdon
2' Piccolo 16' Dulciana CH
8' Clarinet 16' Quintaten GT
Tremolo 8' Principal
Sub 8' Violoncello
Unison Off 4' Principal 12
Super 8' Trumpet GT
Harp Blank
[Received on line from Jeff Scofield November 23, 2009.]
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