Unknown - Chancel with console on the left (Photograph by Beverley Studio (ca. 1950) ; image courtesy of Bob Moody/Database Manager)
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2013-05-01 - Altered and relocated existing organ. Identified by Bob Moody, based on personal knowledge of the organ. -- The organ was orignaly a cinema organ installed in the Strand Theater in Staunton VA. With the advent of "talking pictures" the owner of the theater, a Mr. Myrtle, gave the organ to the Baptist Church which had built a new building in 1929 without an organ but with space for one. Mrs. Myrtle had played for the movies, and the Myrtles were members of the Baptist Church. Miss Pearl Keister was the first church organist to play this instrument. Pete Wetzel worked for Klann Organ Supply and did organ work "on the side." He installed a Klann console and relay and reconfigured the specification for church use, omitting the traps. I helped remove the organ in 1961 in preparation for the installation of a new organ by Charles McManis. -Database Manager
accurate stop list from memory Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Staunton Virginia USA First Baptist Church 1935-1961 Unit organ with individual chromatic unit chests for each rank. Chests sat in two frames in the chamber. A tuning manual was installed. Ranks: Diaphone 1-12 16' offset. Diapason 8. Bourdon 1-12 16' offset. Concert flute 8 Tibia 8 (stopped). Violina 8. Vox Humana 8 (separate tremolo). Trumpet 8 (Harmonic from #13) Pedal: Diaphone 16 Bourdon 16 Diapason 8 Bourdon 8 Tibia 8 Swell to pedal 8 & 4 Great to pedal 8 & 4 Swell and Great had identical stop lists except for couplers. Bourdon 16 Diapason 8 Flute 8 Tibia 8 Violina 8 Diapason 4 Flute 4 Tibia 4 Violina 4 Flautino 2 Vox Humana 8 (tremolo automatic. Knife switch in chamber for tuning.) Trumpet 8 Swell couplers: Swell to Swell 16 Swell to Swell 8 (actually functioned as unison off)( Swell to Swell 4 Great couplers: Swell to Great 16 Swell to Great 8 Swell to Great 4 Great to Great 16 Great to Great 8 (actually functioned as unison off) Great to Great 4 Tremolo--to right of other stop keys and not in combination action. Combination action was mechanical hold-set Klann. Non-functional from 1955. The little brass flat rocker springs all fell off and were in the bottom of the action box. The Swell to Swell 8 and Great to Great 8 turned the unison off when depressed. [Received from Bob Moody 2013-05-04.]
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