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Sam Hovsepian (1968)

First United Methodist Church
861 Middle Street
Montevallo, AL

Images

2006-02-20 - Left Stop Jamb (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2006-02-20 - Right Stop Jamb (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2006-02-20 - Coupler rail (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2006-02-20 - Nameplate (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2008-02-23 - Pedal Bourdon (Photograph by Bill McElwee/Database Manager)

2008-02-23 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Bill McElwee/Database Manager)

2008-02-23 - Pipes-Swell flues (Photograph by Bill McElwee/Database Manager)

2008-02-23 - Console (Photograph by Bill McElwee/Database Manager)

2006-02-20 - Church Building - Exterior (Photo by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2006-02-20 - Exposed Pedal Bourdon and front of church (Photo by Jim Cook, February 20, 2006/Database Manager)

2006-02-20 - Plaque on Building Exterior (Short history of the Methodist Church in Montevallo/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

3 manuals
15 stops
22 registers
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Has combination thumb pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons

Notes

2006-01-19 - Identified through information adapted from E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: E. M. Skinner Opus 489 (1924), relocated from First Presbyterian Church, Selma, Alabama without changes. -Database Manager

2012-08-27 - Updated through online information from Ric West. -Database Manager

2017-11-24 - Updated by Ric West -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist - taken from console Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Montevallo, Alabama
First United Methodist Church

Building dates from 1911
Organ installed by Sam Hovsepian, 1974
    E. M. Skinner Opus 489, Relocated from First Presbyterian Church, Selma, Alabama

STOPLIST

GREAT

   DIAPASON 8
   GEDECKT 8 SW.
   AEOLINE 8 SW.
   FLUTE 4 SW.
   CORNOPEAN 8 SW.
   CHIMES

SWELL

   BOURDON 16
   DIAPASON 8
   SALICIONAL 8
   GEDECKT 8
   AEOLINE 8
   VOIX CELESTE 8
   FLUTE 4
   CORNOPEAN 8
   VOX HUMANA 8
   TREMOLO

CHOIR

   DIAPASON 8
   CONCERT FLUTE 8
   FLUTE 4
   CLARINET 8
   TREMOLO
   CHIMES

PEDAL

   BOURDON 16
   ECHO BOURDON 16 SW.
   GEDECKT 8
   STILL GEDECKT 8 SW
   CHIMES

[Stoplist from console stopknobs, January 26, 2006 -- Jim Cook]

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#22925†* - Skinner Organ Co. Opus 489 (1924)