The Organs

The Pipe Organs

First Church is blessed to be one of the few churches in North America with two world class organs, totaling over 8000 pipes.

Gallery Organ
The Gallery organ was built by Rudolf von Beckerath, of Hamburg, Germany in 1972. It has 47 stops, 73 ranks, 3,719 pipes, mechanical key action and electric stop action. It is capable of playing many styles of organ music and is especially well suited to music of the renaissance and baroque periods.

Chancel Organ
The Martin-MacNevin Memorial Organ was built by W. W. Kimball, Chicago, Illinois in 1931. It has 73 stops, 66 ranks, 4,407 pipes, and electropneumatic key and stop action. This magnificent four-manual symphonic organ was rededicated September 26, 2004, after a four-year restoration effort led by the Peebles-Herzog Company of Columbus and funded by Jean MacNevin, in honor of her husband Bill.

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Jean MacNevin, former First Church choir member, saved the Kimball organ for generations to come.