Better Pipe Organ Database

Henry Niemann (1893)

First Unitarian Church [originally First Independent Church]: Sanctuary; rear gallery
10 W Franklin Street
Baltimore, MD

OHS convention: 1991,2024

Images

1950's - Sanctuary interior with organ in rear gallery (Photograph from an archival source: Library of Congress; Historic American Buildings Survey, Maximilian Pickering, E H, photographer Boucher, Jack E., photographer, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

1991 - Organ in rear gallery (Photograph from an archival source: 1991 OHS Convention Handbook, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Unknown - Organ in Rear Gallery (Photograph by Daniel Fisher (2000s)/Database Manager)

2023 - Facade in balcony (Len Levasseur/John Roper)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
31 stops
Key action Type: Mechanical With Pneumatic Assists
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 2000. -Database Manager

2016-09-13 - Updated through online information from Daniel Fisher. -Database Manager

2016-09-19 - Updated through online information from Daniel Fisher. -Database Manager

2016-12-21 - Updated through online information from Daniel Fisher. -Database Manager

2021-08-12 - The organ was a gift of long-time parishioner Enoch Pratt. The organ has been restored by David Storey of Baltimore ca. 2017-18. -Jim Stettner

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist copied from OHS Baltimore Convention Book 1991 1991

Baltimore, Maryland
First Unitarian Church



       GREAT                                 COUPLERS (Drawknob)
16'    Double Open          58 pipes         Sw. to Ped. Coupler
8'     Open Diapason        58 pipes         Gr. to Ped. Coupler
8'     Viola di Gamba       58 pipes
8'     Dulciana             58 pipes         Sw. to Gr.
8'     Doppel Floete        58 pipes
4'     Octave               58 pipes
4'     Flute D'Amour        58 pipes         FOOT TRUNDLES
2 1/2' Twelfth              58 pipes         Undocumented
2'     Fifteenth            58 pipes

                                             PEDAL MOVEMENTS
       SWELL (Expressive)                    Swell Expression        (bal.)
16'    Bourdon Treble (TC)  46 pipes
16'    Bourdon Bass         12 pipes
8'     Violin Diapason      58 pipes
8'     Salicional           58 pipes
8'     Vox Celestis         46 pipes
8'     Stopd Diapason       58 pipes
4'     Flute Harmonic       58 pipes
III-IV Mixture             208 pipes
8'     Cornopean            58 pipes          ACTION: Mech. Key & Stop
8'     Oboe           (TC)  46 pipes
8'     Bassoon              12 pipes          STOPS: 20
       Tremulo
                                              REGISTERS: 22

       PEDAL                                  RANKS: 23
16'    Open                 27 pipes
16'    Bourdon              27 pipes          PIPES: 


[Received from Daniel Fisher 2016-09-15.]