Our Organs

The Muller Organ

The pipe organ at Trinity Cathedral was built by Muller Pipe Organ Company and installed in 1999. It has 81 ranks (plus three digital voices), six divisions (three of which are enclosed), and four manuals with pedals. In 2017, Burton K. Tidwell LLC conducted a complete tonal reconstruction, at which time the flutes were revoiced and tonally finished.

In 2022, Red River Pipe Organ Company completed a number of console upgrades and loudened the great flute. Some of the console’s more unusual features now include:

  • Sostenutos on each manual
  • Moveable pedal divide (split point settable to general and pedal pistons)
  • Expression shoe which toggles between Crescendo pedal and solo expression
  • Pedal super-coupler
  • Pedal/great coupler
  • Solo/great melody coupler

Find a detailed specification here.

The Taylor and Boody Continuo Organ

In fall of 2021, a substantial memorial gift enabled Trinity to commission a custom continuo organ from Taylor and Boody Organbuilders, one of the most reputable organ firms in the United States. In January of 2024, Opus 90 arrived just in time to be unveiled at the Installation of the Right Reverend Bishop John Harmon on January 7th. Trinity dedicated the organ in a concert on March 1, 2024 in a concert featuring the Trinity Choir and members of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. It now regularly enriches early music performances in both church and concert settings.

The organ contains 239 pipes and five stops playable from one keyboard. The 8’ and 4’ Gedackt/Rohrflote can be split at middle C so that those stops only sound in one half of the keyboard, if desired. The 8’ Principal and 2 2/3’ Nasat play only in the top half of the keyboard. The 2’ Octave plays across the entire keyboard. The keyboard compass is C-d’’’ (51 notes).

Taylor and Boody is also renowned for their woodwork, so Trinity requested that their instrument include several special carvings, including the cathedral’s shield, the shields of St. Peter, and the shield of St. Paul (not to be confused with the singular shield that Sts. Peter and Paul share!). Additionally, the organ shows a depiction of St. Cecilia playing a portative organ and a portrayal of St. Michael slaying the dragon in the Book of Revelation (Taylor and Boody’s only dragon carving!).

 

 

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