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Lavern Norwood (1984ca.)

First Baptist Church: Sanctuary
209 N. Walnut St.
Florence, AL

Images

2020-08-06 - Console: More toe studs (Photograph by Tommy Malcolm Quinn/Tommy Malcolm Quinn)

2020-08-06 - Console: Toe studs (Photograph by Tommy Malcolm Quinn/Tommy Malcolm Quinn)

2020-08-06 - Console: Pedal stops (Photograph by Tommy Malcolm Quinn/Tommy Malcolm Quinn)

2020-08-06 - Console: Swell stops (Photograph by Tommy Malcolm Quinn/Tommy Malcolm Quinn)

2020-08-06 - Console: Great stops (Photograph by Tommy Malcolm Quinn/Tommy Malcolm Quinn)

2020-08-06 - Console (Photograph by Tommy Malcolm Quinn/Tommy Malcolm Quinn)

2020-08-06 - Left-hand chamber (Photograph by Tommy Malcolm Quinn/Tommy Malcolm Quinn)

2020-08-06 - Right-hand chamber (Photograph by Tommy Malcolm Quinn/Tommy Malcolm Quinn)

2020-08-06 - Auditorium interior with organ chambers in chancel (Photograph by Tommy Malcolm Quinn/Tommy Malcolm Quinn)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
2 manuals
19 stops
28 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 61 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: Computerized/Digital
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2012-11-21 - This is a rebuild of an existing organ. Identified by Randy Terry, based on personal knowledge of the organ. -- Original organ by Moller installed in a church in Birmingham, Alabama, and relocated to Florence c1962 by Lavern Norwood and installed in the Sanctuary of First Baptist Church with significant tonal changes. A new great Principal chorus was installed on a new chest. A 16' Quintaten, 8' Rohrflute, 4'Harmonic Flute, and 2-2/3 Nazard were also added. The pipework for these additions is stamped "Durst." Norwood rebuilt the organ again c1984, replacing the Moller console and windchests with new units by Reuter, and added the following Reuter pipework: A III Mixture in the great; an 8' Viola and Celeste, 4' Principal, and 8' Trumpet and Oboe in the swell; an 8/4 Principal in the pedal. -Database Manager

Stoplist

from console/memory Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Florence, Alabama
First Baptist Church

Lavern Norwood, c.1984

Great:

8' Principal
8' Quintflote
8' Rohrflote (encl w/sw)
8' Dulciana  (sw)
4' Octave
4' Rohrflote (encl w/sw)
2-2/3' Twelfth
2' Fifteenth
III Mixture 1-1/3'

Swell:

8' Gedeckt (orig. Moller)
8' Viola
8' Viola Celeste
8' Dulciana (orig. Moller)
4' Principal
4' Harmonic Flute
2-2/3' Nazard
2' Blockflote
1-1/3' Larigot (ext)
8' Trumpet
8' Oboe
   Tremolo

Pedal:

16' Bourdon (orig. Moller)
16' Echo Lieblich (Bdn on low pressure)
16' Quintaton (ext Great)
8' Principal
8' Rohrflote (gt)
8' Dulciana (sw)
4' Octave (ext)
8' Trumpet (sw)

 [Received from Randy Terry 2013-06-29.]

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