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Edwin A. Spencer (1926)

First Baptist Church
75 N. Marengo Avenue
Pasadena, CA

Images


Unknown - Sanctuary Interior, Chancel, and Twin Organ Cases (Photograph (1926) from the collection of Jim Lewis/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main


Notes

2011-06-24 - Identified through online information from Jim lewis. -- Spencer's largest instrument. Four-manuals. Two 16' cases flank the center baptistry. -Database Manager

2013-12-23 - Console replaced with a new Wicks console in 1957; organ completely rebuilt by Robert Muench 1977, with mechanical and tonal changes. -Database Manager


Stoplist

Stoplist from <i>The King of Instruments in the Crown City 1888-2000</i> by James Lewis Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       Pasadena, California
       First Baptist Church

       Spencer Organ Co.   1926
       __________________________________________________

       GREAT                        SWELL
   16' Dbl Open Diapason        16' Bourdon
    8' 1st Open Diapason         8' Open Diapason
    8' 2nd Open Diapason         8' Violin Diapason
    8' 3rd Open Diapason         8' Stopped Diapason
    8' Gross Floete (PD)         8' Major Flute
    8' Doppel Floete             8' Concert Flute
    8' Gemshorn                  8' Flute Celeste
    4' Octave                    8' Salicional
    4' Harmonic Flute            8' Voix Celeste
2 2/3' Twelfth                   8' Aeoline
    2' Fifteenth                 4' Violina
   IV  Mixture     (prep)        4' Gedackt
    8' Harmonic Trumpet          4' Traverse Flute
    4' Harmonic Clarion      2 2/3' Nazard
       Chimes                    2' Flautino
                                16' Fagotto
       CHOIR                     8' Cornopean
   16' Double Dulciana           8' Oboe
    8' Geigen Diapason           8' Vox Humana
    8' Viola                     4' Oboe Clarion
    8' Melodia                      Tremolo
    8' Dulciana
    8' Unda Maris                   PEDAL
    4' Flute                    32' Contra Bourdon
    4' Dulcet                   16' Open Diapason  (wood)
2 2/3' Dulciana 12th            16' Contra Bass
    2' Dulciana 15th            16' Metal Diapason   (GT)
    2' Piccolo                  16' Major Bass
    8' Clarinet                 16' Bourdon
    8' Orchestral Oboe          16' Lieblich Gedackt (SW)
       Tremolo                  16' Double Dulciana  (CH)
                                 8' Octave           (GT)
       SOLO                      8' Flute
    8' Stentorphone              8' Violoncello
    8' Tibia Plena               4' Choral Bass      (GT)
    8' Gross Gamba              32' Trombone       (prep)
    8' Viol d'Orchestre         16' Trombone
    8' Viol Celeste             16' Fagotto          (SW)
    8' Tuba Mirabilis            8' Fagotto          (SW)
    8' English Horn                 
       Tremolo                      ECHO (prepared for)

   (Received online from Jeff Scofield December 23, 2013] 

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