Robert M. Turner
1985
Originally Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. (Opus 886, 1932)
First/Valley Baptist Church
5500 Olive Drive
Bakersfield, CA, US
133 Ranks
Instrument ID: 24644 ● Builder ID: 6324 ● Location ID: 21873
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CONSOLES
Builder: Unknown
Position: Movable Console
Design: Traditional Without Cover
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Features:
4 Manuals (61 Notes)32 Note Pedal7 Divisions99 Stops129 RegistersElectrical Key ActionElectrical Stop Action✓ Crescendo✓ Combination Thumb Piston(s)✓ Combination Toe Piston(s)✓ Coupler Thumb Piston(s)✓ Coupler Toe Piston(s)✓ Sforzando Thumb Piston(s)✓ Sforzando Toe Piston(s)Stop Layout: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination Action: Computerized/Digital
Control System: Unknown or N/A
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DETAILS
This instrument is: Extant and Playable in this location
First Baptist Church left its downtown location and moved to the large new 32-acre facility on Olive Drive and was later renamed Olive Drive Church. Membership eventually dwindled down to around 250 and they sold the facility and property to Valley Baptist Church ca. 2014.
Database Manager on January 1st, 2016:
Updated through online information from Dr. Phillip C. Dodson.
First Baptist Church Bakersfield, CA (now Valley Baptist Church). The Swell reeds (16'Bombarde and 8'Trumpet) were indeed included in the UN Parish (Church of the Holy Family) in NYC. However the 8' Hautbois was destroyed in the first shipment to California from Harvard.
The 8' Vox Humana was prepared for only and the 4' Clarion is in storage in Riverside, CA. All this is as of 12/17/2015.
Database Manager on October 24th, 2008:
Updated through online information from Thomas L. DeLay. -- Great Reeds: 16' Bombarde, 8' Trompette, 8' Tromba, 4' Clarion are no longer with the organ. These reeds somehow made their way to the Great of the organ in St. Thomas the Apostle Anglo-Catholic church in Hollywood. Similarly the Swell reeds: 16' Bombarde, 8' Trumpet, 8' Hautbois, 8' Vox Humana, 4' Clarion are in the Turner organ in Holy Family Catholic Church ("The UN Parish") in New York City. These reeds were replaced by Stinkens reeds by the installer in 1988.
Database Manager on September 17th, 2008:
Updated through online information from Noboru Sato.
Database Manager on November 16th, 2006:
Identified through information adapted from E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn:
Rebuild and relocation of Aeolian-Skinner Opus 886 (1932).
Related Instrument Entries: Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. (Opus 886, 1932) , M. P. Möller (Opus 6127, 1932ca.)
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