Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2006-11-13 - Sold to Peebles-Herzog in 2000 and removed from the church. -Database Manager
2006-12-04 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager
2008-08-08 - Updated through on-line information from Ray Wood. -- I was 14 years old when this organ was originally installed in my church, St. Mary's on the Highlands, Birmingham, AL. It was later moved to Northwest Christian Church, Columbus (Upper Arlington), Ohio. I used to come over every afternoon from school to watch its installation. I have some interesting notes regarding its original installation at St. Mary's. Two stops on the Swell Division are labeled "Fagotta - 8' - " and "Contra Fagotta - 16'-". I was told by one of the pupils of the church organist, Sam Batt Owens, who also designed the organ, that Mr. Owens had the Fagotta and Contra Fagotta replaced with an Oboe and Double Oboe. Supposedly this was because he found the Fagotta/Contra Fagotta too loud. Originally the Great Division had a tremolo stop. However, the tremolo motor was mounted on a wind reservoir that hung vertically so that the tremolo motor was also in a vertical position. In that position, the motor made a sqeaking noise which could not be eliminated, so it was removed. At one point, on a return trip to St. Mary's years later, I noted that the tremolo stop knob had been removed from the console, leaving a hole where it was previously located. As I took my first organ lessons on that instrument, I still have the specifications memorized, knob for knob. It was Birmingham, Alabama's first really good pipe organ, and it spawned something of an organ building "frenzy" over the next few years. -Database Manager
Stoplist from <i>The Diapason</i> July 1956 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Birmingham, Alabama
St. Mary's-on-the-Highlands Episcopal Church
Schantz Op. 324 1957 3/39
GREAT SWELL
16' Quintaton 61 8' Rohrflöte 73
8' Open Diapason 61 8' Viola 73
8' Bourdon 61 8' Viola Celeste 61 tc
4' Octave 61 8' Flute Conique 73
4' Harmonic Flute 61 8' Flute Celeste 61 tc
2 2/3' Twelfth 61 4' Geigen Principal 73
2' Fifteenth 61 4' Hohlflöte 73
IV Fourniture 244 2' Spitzflöte 61
Tremulant III Plein Jeu 183
Sub 16' Contra Fagotta 73
Unison Off 8' Trompette 73
Super 8' Fagotta 12
Chimes 4' Clarion 73
Tremulant
PEDAL Sub
16' Contrabass 32 Unison Off
16' Bourdon 32 Super
16' Quintaton GT
8' Spitzprincipal 32 CHOIR
8' Bourdon 12 8' Nasongedeckt 61
8' Quintaton GT 8' Dulciana 61
4' Choralbass 12 8' Unda Maris 49 tc
4' Flute 12 4' Koppelflöte 61
II Mixture 64 2 2/3' Nazard 61
16' Double Trumpet 32 2' Blockflöte 61
16' Contra Fagotto SW 1 3/5' Tierce 61
8' Trumpet 12 8' Krummhorn 61
4' Clarion 12 Tremulant
Sub
Unison Off
Super
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