The Kimball Organ
First Presbyterian Church, Fort Worth

Robert MacDonald
Organist and Choir Director

        The organ at First Presbyterian Church is the creation of three builders. In 1917 the Kimball Organ Company installed an instrument of thirty ranks in the former church building at Fifth and Taylor. When the present structure was completed, the Kimball organ was moved to this location. Three years later, the Reuter Organ Company added a three manual console and several ranks of pipes. Between 1959 and 1983 a number of additions and alterations were completed. In February, 1995, a five manual console was installed. In July of that year, the sanctuary was closed for several months while a new floor of slate was laid, wall surfaces were hardened and new appointments were added to the room. At the conclusion of that work, twenty-five ranks of pipes were added to the chancel organ by the Garland Pipe Organ Company, under the direction of life-long member of First Presbyterian Church, Dan Garland. In 1996, an antiphonal organ of thirty-two ranks was installed in the gallery. Today the combined chancel and gallery organs total one hundred and thirty-three ranks, with a total of 7,333 pipes.