Maryville College: Fine Arts Center - Recital Hall
Maryville, TN
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
Images
Unknown - Stage, Console, and Pipe Displays (Photograph by James R. Stettner (1985)./Database Manager)
Unknown - Console (Photograph by James R. Stettner (1985)./Database Manager)
2007-08-09 - Pedal Bourdon -- empty main pedal chest in foreground (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
2007-08-09 - Pedal division (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
2007-08-09 - Great division (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
2007-08-09 - Positiv division (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Non-Traditional Style, As Consoles by Holtkamp, Schlicker, et al
- Console position: Movable Console
- 3 manuals
- 26 stops
- 25 registers
- 4 divisions
- Key action Type: Electrical
- Stop action Type: Electrical
- Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
- Manual compass: 61 notes
- Pedal compass: 32 notes
- Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Combination action: Setterboard
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2005-11-28 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager
2007-07-21 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ was removed to on-campus storage during the week beginning August 30, 2007 by college alumnus and organ builder James R. Stettner (Puget Sound Pipe Organs) of Seattle, Washington. When the new Performing Arts Center complex is completed in 2009, the organ will be refurbished and reinstalled with all-new solid state components. -Database Manager
2012-04-30 - Updated through online information from Leonard Houston. -- A lot has happened since 2007. The Holtkamp has been restored and the dedication recital is scheduled for May 5. 2012. -Database Manager
2014-11-22 - Updated through online information from William Dunklin. -- The Fine Arts Center was torn down and the organ relocated to its replacement building, the Clayton Center for the Performing Arts. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Typed stoplist from Jim Stettner Source: Stoplist copied from the console at time of removal in 2007 October 23, 2007
Maryville, Tennessee
Maryville College - Fine Arts Center
HOLTKAMP ORGAN CO., Job No. 1655, 1951 - Original Specifications
GREAT SWELL (Expressive)
16 Quintadena 61 8 Chimney Flute 61
8 Principal 61 8 Salicional 61
8 Spitzflote 61 8 Voix Celeste (tc) 49
4 Octave 61 4 Gemshorn 61
4 Gedackt Flote 61 III Cornet [12-15-17] 183
2 Doublette 61 8 Cromorne 61
IV Mixture [19-22-26-29] 244 4 Oboe Clarion 61
Tremolo
PEDAL Swell 16
16 Subbass 32
16 Quintadena (Gt) --
8 Violon [5:4 taper] 32 POSITIV
8 Gedackt Dolce 32 8 Copula 61
4 Choral Bass 32 4 Rohrflote 61
III Mixture [12-15-19] 96 2 Piccolo 61
16 Stille Posaune 32 1 1/3 Larigot 61
III Cymbal [ - - ] 183
COUPLERS FINGER PISTONS
Swell to Pedal [8] General 1 - 4
Great to Pedal [8] Swell 1 - 4
Positiv to Pedal [8] Great 1 - 3
Positiv 1 & 2
Swell to Great [8] Cancel
Positiv to Great [8]
Swell to Positiv [8] TOE STUDS
General 1 – 4
Pedal 1 – 3
PEDAL MOVEMENTS Tutti [Hitch-down] (rev)
Swell Expression (bal.)
Crescendo (bal.)
ACTION: E-P Pitman VOICES: 25 STOPS: 26 RANKS: 34 PIPES: 1,830
E-P Unit
NOTES
The organ is installed across the front of the Auditorium. The Positiv is located
at the extreme left on the left wall and partially in front of the swellbox. The
expressive Swell is in the front, left corner. The Great is beside the Swell - to
the right and slightly lower. And the Pedal is to the right of the Great, and
slightly lower still. The 16' Quintadena and 16' Subbass are along the back wall.
The console is movable and was stored in a niche under the Great chest. It had the
combination action setterboard in the back.
This is a wonderful, extant example is Walter Holtkamp Sr.'s tonal ideal instilled
into a modest III-manual organ. Everything works well together, and the voicing is
clean. The Great 8' Spitz Flute almost takes-on the sound of a French Horn out in
the room...a very lovely effect. One unusual feature is the presence of the Swell
16' sub coupler. This was requested by the College Head of the Music department so
that the 8' Cromorne and 4' Oboe Schalmei could be sub-coupled to provide a pseudo-
rench 16-8-8-4 reed ensemble. It works surprisingly well.
In 2007, the College embarked on an ambitious program to build a new community Fine
Arts Center. The City of Maryville, Blount County, and other agencies contributed
to this project. The City of Alcoa - originally supporting the project - withdrew
its financial support. The Wilson Chapel/Theatre complex housing a 3/48, 1957
Holtkamp and the Little Chapel 1967, 2/4 Schantz; and the Fine Arts Center were all
demolished in August. The organs were removed by College alumnus James R. Stettner
between July 15 and August 15, and are stored in on-campus facilities.
While the organ was in storage, several ranks disappeared and had to be replaced.
These were: Swell Cornet III, Gemshorn 4, the entire Positive (8,4,2, 1-1/3 III),
and the Pedal 16' Subbass. New pipework was acquired from Holtkamp.
This organ was reinstalled in 2010 in the new recital hall by Bradley Rule & Co.
of nearby New Market, TN. No tonal changes were made to the organ. A new Swell
enclosure had to be made. The only mechanical change was a new solid state relay
and combination action by Musicom.
Sources: Holtkamp opus list; James R. Stettner, extant organ
Maryville College
Fine Arts Center
Maryville, TN. Documented: October 23, 2007
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