Better Pipe Organ Database

A. B. Felgemaker Co. Opus 732 (1900)

First Baptist Church
416 Vine Street
Madison, IN

OHS convention: 1993

Images

2014-12-06 - Console (Photograph by Ron Roaks/Database Manager)

2014-12-06 - Console with Bench (Photograph by Ron Roaks/Database Manager)

2014-12-06 - Pedalboard, Foot Levers, and Swell Pedal (Photograph by Ron Roaks/Database Manager)

2014-12-06 - Organ Case (Photograph by Ron Roaks/Database Manager)

2014-12-06 - Pipe Facade (Photograph by Ron Roaks/Database Manager)

2014-12-06 - Left Drawknobs and Restorer's Plate (Photograph by Ron Roaks/Database Manager)

2014-12-06 - Right Drawknobs and Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by Ron Roaks/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
14 stops
2 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1993 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Restored by Miller Pipe Organ, Louisville, KY. -Database Manager

2010-06-27 - Updated through online information from Thomas L. DeLay. -- When I visited in 1999/2000 the organ was in use and in excellent condition. -Database Manager

2011-02-21 - Updated through online information from Will Dunklin. -- Organ was removed from the church in the summer of 2010 by B Rule & Company, New Market, Tennessee. The organ went to their shop for total renovation. The original stop list was unchanged except that a period appropriate Felgemaker 8' Oboe (reed) replaced the original labial Oboe. The chests were retabled. The mechanical key and stop actions were restored. The double rise bellows and feeders were releathered. Many of the 50+ facade pipes had been mangled: some required replacement, the rest were repaired and all repainted. The church chose not to have the case stripped and refinished even though the finish on the case is relatively recent and of amateurish quality. The organ was reinstalled in the original position in January 2011. -Database Manager

2013-09-16 - Updated through online information from John C. Ball. -- The Facade pipes are ALL original and were repaired as needed by B. Rule Organ Co. The organ is in excellent condition and played each Sunday. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist (Source: The American Organist, Vol. 46, No. 5 [May 2012], p.72) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

First Baptist Church
Madison, Indiana
A.B. Felgemaker, 1900
OHS ID 7139
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  GREAT             SWELL
8 Open Diapason  16 Bourdon (TC)
8 Melodia         8 Violin Diapason
8 Dulciana        8 Aeoline
4 Octave          4 Flute Harmonique
4 Flute d'Amour   8 Oboe*
2 Super Octave
                    PEDAL
  ACCESSORIES    16 Lieblich Gedeckt
  Sw Forte       16 Subbass
  Sw Piano
  Gt Forte
  Gt Piano
  Wind Guage (dial)
  Tremolo

*Original tenor C labial Oboe replaced by full-compass 1910 Felgemaker Oboe by Bradley Rule in 2011.

[Received online from T. Daniel Hancock, 2012-05-14]

Websites

Historic Organ - First Baptist Church - Madison, Indiana - Description, history, photographs (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)