First Baptist Church: Sanctuary; front
224 Main Street
Penn Yan, NY
Images
ca. 2018 - Console (Photograph by Richard Johnson (on Facebook), submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
ca. 2018 - Marr & Colton dummy pipes over chamber opening (Photograph by Richard Johnson (on Facebook), submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
ca. 1931 - Sanctuary interior after 1931 redesign - showing organ chambers in front (Photograph from an archival source: Church website photo; used with permission, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
ca. 1931 - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Vintge postcard, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Horseshoe
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
- 3 manuals
- 18 stops
- 4 divisions
- Key action Type: Electrical
- Stop action Type: Electrical
- Stop layout Type: Stop Keys in Horseshoe Curves
- 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: Adjustable Combination Pistons
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has combination toe pistons
Notes
2021-03-26 - Identified through on-line information from Richard Johnson. -- The original two manual tracker mechanism and case were removed in 1931. The pipework was transferred to electro-pneumatic chests by Marr and Colton, and a three manual horseshoe console was supplied. -Jim Stettner
2021-03-26 - This was the electrification of the existing 1871 Wm. A. Johnson organ with reconfiguring as a 3-manual instrument on new windchests in chambers across the front. According to the church website on the organ history page, *"In 1931, a "new" organ was built by the Marr and Colton firm of Warsaw, NY. However, it was not completely new, as the majority of it's pipework came from the 1871 instrument. The tracker (mechanical) action was replaced by electro-pneumatic action chests, and a new console was provided. The entire structure of the organ was changed by the removal of the 1871 casework and the installation of the pipework in three chambers across the front of the sanctuary. This 1931 rebuild resulted in an instrument with three rather weak divisions, Great, Swell and Choir, all of which were under expression."* -Jim Stettner
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