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Hillgreen, Lane & Co. Opus 515 (1918)

First Baptist Church
New Kensington, PA

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
8 stops
12 registers
2 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2013-04-06 - An original installation. Identified by Bruce Schutrum, based on personal knowledge of the organ. -- In the early 1960s the console was gutted and replaced with Klann components - manuals, stopboard and combination action, pedalboard and two toestuds, swell, great and crescendo shoes. All wiring was replaced. This was done by a local service man. In 1973 the organ was replaced with a 13 rank Tellers -Database Manager

2013-04-13 - Updated through online information from Bruce Schutrum. -Database Manager

2018-07-22 - Information from Hillgreen, Lane & Co. opus list, compiled by Bynum Petty Contract: April 1918. 61-note manual compass (Câ€“c4), 30-note pedal compass (Câ€“f1). 73-note Swell chest. Electro-pneumatic action. Two organ chamber openings towards auditorium, 5 ft. square each. Low-voltage generator. Electric blower. Price: $1,800. -Database Manager

2018-07-23 - Relocated by Hillgreen, Lane & Co., to Antioch Baptist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1952. -Database Manager

2022-01-12 - This instrument was not relocated to another church in Cleveland. The original instrument with rebuilt console remained in the church until it was replaced in 1973 by the Tellers Organ Company. -Bruce R. Schutrum

Stoplist

Original document from Bruce Schutrum. Source: Stop list taken from console 2018-04-17

New Kensington, Pennsylvania
First Baptist Church

Organ by Hillgreen, Lane & Co.   Op. 515   1918

	GREAT
8' Open Diapason
8' Grosse Floete (Doppel flute construction)
8' Dulciana
4' Flute (ext GF)
2' Flautino (ext GF)
   Tremulant
   Swell to Great 16'
   Swell to Great 8'
   Swell to Great 4'
   Great to Great 4'

        SWELL
8' Open Diapason
8' Gedackt
4' Rohr Floete
8' Salicional
8' Voix Celeste
   Tremulant
   Swell to Swell 16'
   Swell Unison Off
   Swell to Swell 4'

       PEDAL
16' Bourdon (ext GF)
 8' Flute (GF)
    Great to Pedal 8'
    Swell to Pedal 8'

        PEDAL MOVEMENTS
    Balanced Swell Pedal 
    Balanced Great Pedal
    Crescendo Pedal 
    Great to Pedal Reversible Toe Lever
    Full Organ Reversible Toe Lever

       FINGER PISTONS
   Great and Pedal 1-2-3 (adjustable)
   Swell and Pedal 1-2-3 (adjustable)
   Coupler Cancel (Red Piston) 

       ACCESSORIES
   Crescendo Pedal Dial
   Wind Dial

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