2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1996 -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - In rear gallery. 6 gen., 5 div. combinations. [A Casavant removed from front chambers when this was installed.] [In same building as Casavant was? One reference is to a new building. Or was the Casavant moved to a new building, then replaced?] -Database Manager
2008-07-13 - Updated through online information from Michael Valentine. -- The Casavant organ was purchased by Crievewood Baptist Church and installed in their Sanctuary. -Database Manager
2011-10-10 - Updated through online information from William Dunklin. -Database Manager
2015-04-18 - Updated through online information from James R . Stettner. -- According to the church's "Ministries-->Music Ministry--> Sanctuary Organ" web page, "Work in 2002 added an electric assist to the mechanical action, as well as solid-state combination memory levels." -Database Manager
2023-02-13 - The Von Beckerath is in the same room (sanctuary) as the Casavant was. The Casavant Antiphonal division was installed in a small chapel in another building on campus. -John Lucianno
Stoplist copied from the dedication program and verified against the church website stoplist. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Nashville, Tennessee
First Presbyterian Church
RUDOLF VON BECKERATH, Opus ____, 1974 - Original Specifications
GREAT SWELL (Expressive)
16' Pommer 58 8' Rohrflöte 58
8' Principal 58 8' Gemshorn 58
8' Spielflöte 58 8' Celeste (tc) 46
4' Octave 58 4' Principal 58
4' Hohlflöte 58 4' Blockflöte 58
2-2/3' Quinte 58 2-2/3' Nasat 58
2' Octave 58 2' Octavin 58
2' Flachflöte 58 1-3/5' Tierce 58
V Mixture 1⅓' 290 1' Sifflöte 58
III Scharf ⅔' 174 V Plein Jeu 1⅓' 290
V Cornet (tg) 195 16' Dulzian 58
8' Trumpet 58 8' Hautbois 58
4' Trumpet 58 4' Musette 58
Cymbelstern Tremolo
RÜCKPOSITIV PEDAL
8' Holzgedackt 58 32' Resultant 32
8' Quintadena 58 16' Principal 32
4' Principal 58 16' Subbass 32
4' Rohrflöte 58 8' Octave 32
2' Octave 58 8' Gedackt 32
1-1/3' Larigot 58 4' Octave 32
II Sesquialtera 116 2' Nachthorn 32
IV Scharf 1' 232 III Basszinc 5⅓' 96
16' Ranket 58 VI Mixtur 192
8' Cromorne 58 32' Fagott 32
Tremolo 16' Posaune 32
8' Trumpet 32
4' Schalmei 32
COUPLERS FINGER PISTONS
Swell to Pedal General 1 - 6
Great to Pedal Swell 1 - 5
Positiv to Pedal Great 1 - 5
Positiv 1 - 5
Swell to Great Setter
Positiv to Great Cancel
Swell to Positiv
TOE STUDS
General 1 – 6
PEDAL MOVEMENTS Pedal 1 - 5
Swell Expression (bal.)
ACTION: Mech. Key VOICES: 49 STOPS: 50 RANKS: 74 PIPES: 3,665
Elec. Stop (inc. Cymbelstern)
NOTES
The organ was installed in the spring and summer of 1974. Dr. Henry Fusner played the
dedicatory recital on October 27, 1974.
It is installed in the rear gallery on the right side. All of the casework is white
with gold trim. The main case has a 5-sectional façade containing 25 burnished pipes
of 70% tin arranged: 5-5-5-5-5, and holds only the Great. The Swell division is behind
the Great with it's expression louvers extending below the bottom of the Great casework.
The Positiv is on the gallery rail. And the Pedal case is detached from the main case
to the right along the wall. It has a 2-sectional sanctuary facade containing 9 pipes
arranged 4-5. The gallery side of the Pedal case appears to only contain 3 pipes – but
may actually have 4.
Wind pressures are: Great (77mm), Swell (72mm), Positiv (65mm), and Pedal (80mm).
According to the church website (viewed Sunday, April 12, 2015), in the section of the
website citing the history of the organ it says, “the wind chests were made from the
finest, seasoned American Douglas fir wood (Beckerath believed that American wood would
be most at home in the American climate). The interior of the console is of pear wood,
with manual keys of Madagascar granadilla [sic], a wood used in oboes and clarinets.”
The general 'Sanctuary Organ' section of the website reveals, “Work in 2002 added an
electric assist to the mechanical action, as well as solid-state combination memory
levels.”
Sources: Beckerath opus list; dedication program; church website
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