Better Pipe Organ Database

Geo. Kilgen & Son, Inc. (1887)

First Baptist Church
Sixth and Fort Streets
Los Angeles, CA

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

Images

Unknown - (ca. 1900) Choir and Organ Case (Photograph from the collection of Jim Lewis/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
3 manuals
25 stops
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)

Notes

2014-09-22 - Dedicated by Clarence Eddy on March 17, 1885. -Database Manager

2015-02-17 - Updated through online information from Jim Lewis. -- The organ was dedicated by Clarence Eddy in 1887. -Database Manager

2021-10-19 - Moved to new bldgs in 1898 (by Murray M. Harris) and 1923 (W. 6th St.). The 1923 bldg was subsequently used by several denominations after 1927. The Full Gospel Tabernacle, Los Angeles, CA owned it in 1978, & sold the organ through OCH to Holy Rosary Church R.C. in Edmonds, Washington, where the organ was renovated and installed by Richard Bond . Compass 58/27. -Scot Huntington

Stoplist

Specification from <i>Organs in the Land of Sunshine</i> by James Lewis (OHS Press: 2010) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Los Angeles, California
First Baptist Church

George Kilgen & Son   1887                3 manuals, 25 stops, 27 ranks
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       GREAT ORGAN                          SWELL ORGAN
    8' Open Diapason       58           16' Bourdon             58
    8' Viol d'Gamba        58            8' Open Diapason       58
    8' Melodia             58            8' Dolce               58
    4' Principal           58            8' Stopped Diapason    58
    4' Flute Harmonic      58            4' Violina             58
    3' Twelfth             58            4' Flute Traverso      58
    2' Fifteenth           58               Dolce Cornet III   174
    8' Trumpet             58            8' Bassoon [bass]      12
                                         8' Oboe [treble]       46
       CHOIR ORGAN
    8' Geigen Principal    58               PEDAL ORGAN
    8' Dulciana            58           16' Grand Open Diapason 27
    8' Melodia             58           16' Bourdon             27
    4' Flute d'Amour       58            8' Violoncello         27
    2' Piccolo             58
    8' Clarionet           58               MECHANICAL REGISTERS
                                            "There are four pneumatic
                                            pistons operating the
       PEDAL MOVEMENTS                      manual couplers."
    1. Forte Great Organ                    Swell to Great
    2. Piano Great Organ                    Choir to Great
    3. Reversible Great to Pedal            Swell to Choir
    4. Balanced Swell Pedal                 Great to Pedal
                                            Swell to Pedal
                                            Choir to Pedal
                                            Vox Tremolo
                                            Bellows Signal


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2016-02-02]