Better Pipe Organ Database

Geo. Kilgen & Son, Inc. (1914)

First Presbyterian Church
Lewisburg, TN

Images

2007-04-17 - Church interior (photographybystein.com/Jeff Scofield)

2007-04-17 - Church interior to rear (photographybystein.com/Jeff Scofield)

2007-04-17 - Façade pipes (photographybystein.com/Jeff Scofield)

2007-04-17 - Console (photographybystein.com/Jeff Scofield)

2007-04-17 - Left stopamb (photographybystein.com/Jeff Scofield)

2007-04-17 - Foot levers and expression shoe (photographybystein.com/Jeff Scofield)

2007-04-17 - Church exterior (photographybystein.com/Jeff Scofield)

2007-04-17 - Right stopjamb (photographybystein.com/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
11 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Not Meeting AGO Standards)

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1994. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - The pedal board has been replaced by AGO pedalboard. [The Diapason, May 1914, p. 9 shows a 1914 Tubular Kilgen for this church. An error?] -Database Manager

2005-04-13 - Reconditioned by Milnar Organ Co., Eagleville, TN in 1980. -Database Manager

2005-08-23 - Online update from Melvin Potts -- Organ is still in regular use. The original pedalboard has been replaced with an A.G.O. pedalboard; otherwise organ is in original condition. -Database Manager

2023-02-13 - Pedalboard is original and flat, not AGO. Also, the organ has always had tracker action. Milnar Organ company completed rebuild in 1977; MOC intalled new 0.45 Ventus Blower (1997), chimes (1987), motor tremolo (2000). -John Lucianno

Stoplist

Typed Specification Source: from Historic Pipe Organs of East Tennessee Date not recorded

Lewisburg, Tennessee
First Presbyterian Church

George Kilgen & Son   1914                           2 manuals, 10 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN                       SWELL ORGAN
      8' Open Diapason        61        8' Violin Diapason      61
      8' Melodia (TC)         49        8' Stopped Diapason     61
      8' Dulciana (TC)        49        8' Salicional           61
      8' Unison Bass          12        4' Flute Harmonic       61
      4' Octave               61           Tremolo
      2' Fifteenth            61
                                           PEDAL
                                       16' Bourdon              30

         COUPLERS                          COMBINATION PEDALS
         Great to Pedal                    Great Forte
         Swell to Pedal                    Great Piano
         Swell to Great


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2018-08-07]