Better Pipe Organ Database

Taylor & Boody Organbuilders Opus 20 (1992)

First Presbyterian Church
110 N. Adams Street
Tallahassee, FL

Images

2004-04-22 - Church exterior (Photograph by Taylor & Boody website, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2012-08-07 - Console and stopknobs (Photograph by Taylor & Boody website, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2022-02-26 - Organ and organ case (Photograph by Eric Plutz, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2004-04-22 - Church interior to rear and organ (Photograph by Taylor & Boody website, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
26 stops
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Suspended Tracker)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Combination action: None
Has hitchdown couplers

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1996 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Kellner unequal temperament. -Database Manager

2005-06-14 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ is in a solid cherry case. The facade is 5-sectional with 65 pipes arranged: 7-22-7-22-7. The 7's are towers dividing flats of 22 pipes which are divided into upper and lower flats of 11 pipes each. The Choir is in Brustwerk position and is enclosed by doors that are manually positioned. According to the Taylor & Boody website, there are only 3 prepared-for stops: the 2' Gemshorn and IV Cornet on the Great; and the IV Scharff on the Choir. When completed, the organ will have 26 registers, 26 stops, and 37 ranks. -Database Manager

2007-10-02 - The three prepared-for stops were added in 2011. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Specification from builder's web site Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Tallahassee, Florida
First Presbyterian Church

Taylor & Boody Organbuilders   Opus 20   1992
2 manuals, 26 stops, 37 ranks
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        GREAT ORGAN                        CHOIR ORGAN
    16' Bourdon           56            8' Gedackt           56
     8' Principal         56            8' Quintadena        56
     8' Rohrflöte         56            4' Principal         56
     8' Baarpijp          56            4' Spitzgedackt      56
     4' Octave            56            2' Octave            56
     4' Spielflöte        56        1 1/3' Quinte            56
     3' Nasat             56               Sesquialtera II  112
     2' Superoctave       56               Scharf IV        224 a
     2' Gemshorn          56 a          8' Dulcian           56
        Cornet IV          ? a
        Mixture IV-V       ?               COUPLERS
     8' Trompet           56               Choir to Great
                                           Great to Pedal
        PEDAL ORGAN                        Choir to Pedal
    16' Subbass           30
     8' Octave            30               MECHANICALS
     4' Octave            30               Tremulant
    16' Posaune           30               Bellows Signal
     8' Trompet           30

     a  prepared-for stops added in 2011


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2015-04-13]

Websites

Opus 20 [Builder's web site] - Photograph, description (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)