Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 3153 (1972)

First Baptist Church: Sanctuary
303 East Cedar Street
Franklin, KY

Images

2017-12-11 - Church exterior (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2012-11-10 - Builder nameplate (Photograph by Ken Stein, photographybystein.com, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2012-11-10 - Church interior to rear (Photograph by Ken Stein, photographybystein.com, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2012-11-10 - Church interior to front (Photograph by Ken Stein, photographybystein.com, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2012-11-10 - Chamber grillework and exposed pipes (Photograph by Ken Stein, photographybystein.com, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2012-11-10 - Console (Photograph by Ken Stein, photographybystein.com, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2012-11-10 - Console and exposed pipes (Photograph by Ken Stein, photographybystein.com, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
2 manuals
27 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
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2010-01-16 - Identified by Rae Bolton from information furnished by Casavant Frères, courtesy of Simon Couture. -Database Manager

2010-05-14 - Updated through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -- Trompete-en-Chamade built by Schopp added in 1987. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

    Franklin, Kentucky
    First Baptist Church

    Casavant   Op. 3153   1972   2/37

    Courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives
    St. Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada
    _________________________________________________________

    GREAT                              SWELL
 8' Prinzipal           56          8' Salizional          56
 8' Rohrflöte           56          8' Vox coelestis       49 GG
 4' Oktav               56          8' Gedackt             56
 4' Nachthorn           56          4' Prinzipal           56
 2' Oktav               56          4' Koppelflöte         56
 2' Blockflöte          56          2' Oktav               56
II  Kornett             88 tc   1 1/3' Quintflöte          56
IV  Mixtur             224         IV  Scharf             224
 8' Trompete            56          8' Oboe                56
 8' Trompete-en-Chamade 56 *        8' Krummhorn           56
                                       Tremulant
    PEDAL                           8' Trompete-en-Chamade GT
16' Subbass             32
 8' Prinzipalbass       32
 8' Bordun              32
 4' Choralbass          32
IV  Mixtur             128
16' Posaune     L/2     32
 4' Schalmei            32          *  added in 1987

[Received on line from Jeff Scofield May 14, 2010.]