Better Pipe Organ Database

Noack Opus 90 (1979)

Beckley [prev. Raleigh, and, First] Presbyterian Church : Sanctuary
203 South Kanawha Street
Beckley, WV

Images

2015-10-24 - Sanctuary Interior, Chancel, and Organ Case (Photograph by Brett Miller/Database Manager)

2015-10-24 - Left Stop Jam (Great and Pedal) (Photograph by Brett Miller/Database Manager)

2015-10-24 - Right Stop Jamb (Positive, Swell, Tremolo, Zimbelstern) (Photograph by Brett Miller/Database Manager)

Consoles

Keydesk

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
3 manuals
36 stops
4 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Combination action: None
Has hitchdown couplers

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1996. -Database Manager

2006-03-24 - Updated through information adapted from E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: Replaced E. M. Skinner Opus 581 (1926), previously enlarged by Lewis and Hitchcock in 1969. -Database Manager

2015-11-01 - Updated through online information from Brett Miller. -- Joan Lippincott served as consultant and performed the dedicatory recital. A Zimbelstern has been subsequently added to the instrument. Technical statements of interest taken from the 1979 dedication program: The [Great] Trumpet 8' and Clarion 4' are...typical reeds for this division, except that in this organ the Clarion breaks back to 8' and even (on c''') 16' in order to maintain its intensity all the way to the treble." "The temperament of the organ favors the more common keys, while allowing all keys to be used." "The wind pressure used is 80mm (3-1/4")." "The organ was built during February to September 1979...The technical installation was done by shop foreman Eric Kenney and Richard Aylward, with the adjustment and tonal finishing by John Farmer and Fritz Noack." -Database Manager

2018-02-26 - Updated by Timothy H. Waugh - Artist in Residence BPC, who has heard or played the organ. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from console October 24, 2015 and from 1979 dedication program Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Beckley, West Virginia
Beckley Presbyterian Church

Noack Organ Company, Op. 90   1979   3/47   2,182 pipes

        GREAT           		     POSITIVE
    16' Bourdon           		 8'  Stopt Flute
    8'  Principal		         4'  Praestant
    8'  Second Principal		 4'  Spire Flute
    8'  Chimney Flute			 2'  Gemshorn
    4'  Octave			 	 II  Sesquialtera (f)
2 2/3'  Nasard				III  Sharp
    2'  Doublet				 8'  Cremona
1 3/5'  Tierce     
II-III  Mixture
   III  Sharp
    8'  Trumpet
    4'  Trumpet              

        SWELL (enclosed)		     PEDAL
    8'  Stopt Diapason			16'  Principal
    8'  Viola				16'  Bourdon
    4' 	Principal	    		 8'  Open Bass
    4'  Claribel			 4'  Choral Bass
    2'  Octave		 		II   Mixture
1 1/3'  Larigot		       		IV   Sharp
   16'  Vox Humana			16'  Trombone
    8'  Hautbois			 8'  Trumpet
					 2'  Clarion
  
       COUPLERS

  Positive to Great		Pedal Ventil 1
  Swell to Great		Pedal Ventil 2
  Great to Pedal
  Postitive to Pedal
  Swell to Pedal		Tremolo

 [Received from Brett Miller 2015-10-29.]