2018-01-04 - Church exterior (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2004-10-30 - Rebuilt and enlarged by M. P. Möller with new console in 1953. Rebuilt with new console, Skinner stops restored, by Ontko & Young in 1990. -Database Manager
2006-01-04 - 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>New M. P. Möller console in 1953; rebuilt and enlarged by Ontko and Young in 1988.</i> -Database Manager
2015-07-25 - Updated through online information from John Lanier. -- In 1952 this instrument was both releathered and enlarged by M. P. Moller with the addition of a Solo division with an additional three ranks, as well as a new four-manual console. In 1968 William Zimmer removed three or four of the original ranks from both the Great and Swell and installed a mixture on the Great and a both a 2-2/3' and a 1-3/5' mutation in the Swell division, placing both of them on off-set chests. <br> This was not satisfactory from a tonal standpoint, because it did not blend with the ensemble as a whole. Fortunately, the original Skinner pipes were placed in crates that were stored in the attic of the church, so that when Ontko restored and enlarged the instrument in 1980 these pipes were available to him to be reinstalled. -Database Manager
from Allen Kinzey Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Savannah, Georgia
First Baptist Church
Skinner Organ Company Opus 326 1920 3 manuals, 44 stops, 40 ranks
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GREAT CHOIR
16' Bourdon 17 PED 8' Diapason 73
8' First Diapason 73 8' Concert Flute 73
8' Second Diapason 73 8' Quintadena 73
8' Claribel Flute 73 8' Dulciana 73
8' Waldfloete 73 4' Flute d'Amour 73
8' Gemshorn 73 8' Clarinet 73
4' Octave 61 Tremolo
4' Harmonic Flute 61 Harp
8' Trumpet 73 Celesta
8' French Horn 73 (in SW) Sub
Cathedral Chimes EC Super
SWELL ECHO
16' Bourdon 73 8' Fern Flute 73
8' Diapason 73 8' Viol Celeste II 146
8' Stopped Diapason 73 4' Chimney Flute 61
8' Salicional 73 8' Vox Humana 73
8' Voix Celestes 73 Tremolo
8' Flauto Dolce 73 Cathedral Chimes 20 tubes
8' Flute Celeste 61 tc
4' Octave 61 PEDAL
4' Flauto Traverso 61 32' Resultant --
2' Flautino 61 16' Diapason (large) 32
III Mixture 183 16' Violone 32
16' Ophecleide 73 16' Bourdon 32
8' Cornopean 73 16' Bourdon SW
8' Oboe 73 8' Octave 12
8' Vox Humana 73 8' Flute 12
Tremolo 8' Still Gedeckt SW
Sub 16' Ophecleide SW
Super
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