Better Pipe Organ Database

Harrison & Harrison (1998)

Good Shepherd Episcopal Church
231 North Church Street
Rocky Mount, NC

Images

2011 - Church front door and bell tower (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

2011 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

2014 - Chancel, altar, and organ on left (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

Jan 2019 - Chancel, organ case, reversed console and high altar. (Photograph by unknown/Andrew Scanlon)

2024-07-28 - Console (Colton Barber/Colton Barber)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Detached, Reversed Keydesk (Mechanical Action)
2 manuals
22 stops
22 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Computerized/Digital
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons

Notes

2010-07-21 - Identified through online information from Stephen Hall. -- Organ is in regular use for services and concerts per church website accessed July 2010. -Database Manager

2024-07-28 - The organ chamber on the right is not in use and was left from the original 1948 Wicks. The pipes were bought by another church but the double open pedal stop still remains. The organ chamber on the left side is the entire Harrison and Harrison organ. -Colton Barber

Stoplist

Specification from builder's web site Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Rocky Mount, North Carolina
Good Shepherd Episcopal Church

Harrison & Harrison   1998                     2 manuals, 22 stops, 27 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN                           SWELL ORGAN
      8' Open Diapason         58           8' Gedackt               58
      8' Stopped Diapason      58           8' Viola                 58
      4' Principal             58           8' Céleste               58
      4' Chimney Flute         58           4' Gemshorn              58
  2 2/3' Twelfth               58           2' Flageolet             58
      2' Fifteenth             58              Mixture III          174
  1 3/5' Seventeenth           58          16' Bassoon               58
         Mixture IV           232           8' Cornopean             58
      8' Trumpet               58                Tremulant
      8' Cremona               58
           Tremulant                           PEDAL ORGAN
           Swell to Great                  16' Bourdon               30
                                            8' Principal             30
         COMBINATIONS                       4' Fifteenth             30
         Generals  1-6   (thumb & toe)     16' Trombone              30
         Generals  7-8   (thumb)                 Great to Pedal
         Great       6   (thumb)                 Swell to Pedal
         Swell       6   (thumb)
         Pedal       4   (toe)                 Mechanical key action
         General Cancel  (thumb)               Electric stop action


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2016-02-21]

Websites

Church of the Good Shepherd, Rocky Mount, North Carolina [builder's web site] - Photographs, stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)