First Baptist Church
1373 Grant Street
Denver, CO
OHS convention: 1998
Images
2015-06-09 - Church exterior (Photograph by Martin Doering via https://die-orgelseite.de, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2015-06-09 - Right stopjamb (Photograph by Martin Doering via https://die-orgelseite.de, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2015-06-09 - Left stopjamb (Photograph by Martin Doering via https://die-orgelseite.de, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2015-06-09 - Console (Photograph by Martin Doering via https://die-orgelseite.de, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2015-06-09 - Church interior to rear (Photograph by Martin Doering via https://die-orgelseite.de, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2015-06-09 - Church interior and chancel ceiling chambers grilles (Photograph by Martin Doering via https://die-orgelseite.de, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2009-09-27 - Console (Photograph by Photograph by Bryan Dunnewald, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2009-09-27 - Console (Photograph by Photograph by Bryan Dunnewald, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2009-09-27 - Chancel showing side and ceiling grilles (Photograph by Bryan Dunnewald/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- 4 manuals
- 89 stops
- 99 registers
- Key action Type: Electrical
- Stop action Type: Electrical
- Manual compass: 61 notes
- Pedal compass: 32 notes
- Has crescendo
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has combination toe pistons
- Has coupler thumb pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
- Has tutti thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2004-10-30 - The original builder was Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. (1945, Opus1047). -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1998. -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Built as Op. 1047 (1945) for residence of Senator Emerson Richards, Atlantic, City, N.J. New Great and Positiv chests and 51 new ranks added. These included the short-lived 1926 Midmer-Losh Diapason Chorus division from St. Mark's Episcopal in Philadelphia, Penn. -Database Manager
2008-03-12 - Updated through information adapted from <i>E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List</i>, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: <br><i>Extant.</i> -Database Manager
2008-09-25 - Updated through online information from Greg Wimpey. -- Church website indicates 126 ranks, 8000 pipes; Aeolian-Skinner archive site indicates 124 ranks, 6192 pipes. -Database Manager
2009-10-08 - Updated through online information from Bryan Dunnewald. -Database Manager
2019-07-24 - Updated by Benjamin Ehrlich, listing this web site as a source of information: https://www.fbcdorgan.org/. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Stoplist from <i>The American Organist</i>, February 1946, with updates from Allen Kinzey Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Denver, Colorado
First Baptist Church
Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co., Inc. Opus 1047-A 1948 4 manuals, 89 stops, 114 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN (II) SWELL ORGAN (III)
16' Spitzflöte 61 16' Contra Dulciana 61
8' Principal 61 8' Diapason 61
8' Spitzprincipal 61 8' Salicional 61
8' Bourdon 61 8' Dolcan 61
4' Principal 61 8' Voix Celeste (TC) 49
4' Rohrflöte 61 8' Muted Strings II 110
2 2/3' Quint 61 8' Orchestral Cellos II 110
2' Super Octave 61 8' Dolcan 61
IV Fourniture 244 8' Stopped Diapason 61
III Cymbal 183 4' Octave 61
Chimes SO 4' Flute d'Orchestre 61
4' Salicet 61
CHOIR ORGAN (I) 4' Dulcet 61
16' Contre Basse 61 4' Dolce Celeste II 122
16' Lieblich Gedeckt 61 2 2/3' Nasard 61
8' Viola 61 2' Fifteenth 61
8' Viola Celeste (TC) 49 2' Dulcinett 12
8' Gamba 61 1 3/5' Tierce 61
8' Gamba Celeste (TC) 49 V Mixture 305
8' Orchestral Violes II 110 III Carillon 183
8' Aeoline 61 16' Double Trompette 61
8' Aeoline Celeste (TC) 49 16' English Horn 61
8' Dulciana SW 8' Trumpet 61
8' Melodia 61 8' Clarinet 61
8' Unda Maris (TC) 49 8' Oboe 61
8' Singend Gedeckt 61 8' Vox Humana 61
4' Gambette 61 4' Clarion 61
4' Blockflöte 61 Tremulant
2 2/3' Twelfth 61
2' Spillflöte 61 PEDAL ORGAN
1 3/5' Tierce 61 32' Soubasse 12
III Dolce Cornet 183 16' Open Bass 32
III Sesquialtera 183 16' Principal Bass 32
16' Bass Clarinet 61 16' Montre 32
8' Petite Trompette 61 16' Violone 32
8' Rohrschalmei 61 16' Bourdon 32
4' Hautbois 61 16' Gedeckt Bass 32
2' Regal 61 16' Soubasse 32
Tremulant 8' Spitz Principal 32
8' Gedeckt Pommer 32
SOLO ORGAN (IV) 8' Gemshorn 32
8' Flauto Mirabilis 61 8' Gamba 32
4' Flute Harmonique 61 4' Octave 32
16' Trombone 61 4' Flute Ouverte 32
8' Tuba 61 4' Flute Couverte 32
8' French Horn 61 2' Rohrflöte 32
8' Orchestral Oboe 61 1' Blockflöte 32
4' Clarion 61 VII Grand Cornet 224
Tremulant 32' Basson 12
Chimes 16' Trombone 32
16' Bassoon 32
8' Trumpet 32
4' Clarion 32
2' Kornett 32
16' Contre Bass CH
16' Dulciana SW
8' Dulciana SW
16' English Horn SW
8' Clarinet SW
4' Hautbois CH
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2016-04-03]
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