Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 3211 (1974)

First Baptist Church: Sanctuary
123 Church Street NE
Decatur, AL

Images

2021-09-27 - Builder nameplate (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2021-09-27 - Console after move to chapel (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2021-09-27 - Church interior (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2007-10-29 - Church exterior (Photograph by Ken Stein, photographybystein.com, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2007-10-29 - Church interior to rear (Photograph by Ken Stein, photographybystein.com, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2007-10-29 - Church interior to front and organ chamber (Photograph by Ken Stein, photographybystein.com, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2007-10-29 - Console and choir loft (Photograph by Ken Stein, photographybystein.com, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
2 manuals
31 stops
27 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2009-10-11 - Identified by Rae Bolton from information furnished by Casavant Frères, courtesy of Simon Couture. -Database Manager

2010-03-08 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the factory specifications Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       Decatur, Alabama
       First Baptist Church

       Casavant   Op. 3211   1974   2/36

       Courtesy of Casavant Frères Archives
       Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada

       GREAT                 SWELL                     PEDAL
   16' Quintaden 56       8' Salizional 56         16' Prinzipal 32
    8' Prinzipal 56       8' Vox Coelestis 49 GG   16' Subbass 32
    8' Bordun 56          8' Rohrflöte 56          16' Quintaden GT
    4' Oktave 56          8' Erzähler 56            8' Oktave 32
    4' Waldflöte 56       4' Prinzipal 56           8' Gedacktpommer 32
2 2/3' Nasat 56           4' Koppelflöte 56         4' Oktave 12
    2' Blockflöte 56      2' Oktave 56             IV  Mixtur 128
1 3/5' Terz 56        1 1/3' Quintflöte 56         16' Posaune 32 *
   IV  Mixtur 224        IV  Scharf 224            16' Dulzian SW
    8' Trompete 56       16' Dulzian 56             8' Trompete 12
                          8' Oboe 56
                             Tremulant              *  1-12 half-length

[Received on line from Jeff Scofield March 08, 2010.]