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Howard Best (Howard M. Best III) (1994)

Independent Presbyterian Church: Sanctuary
3100 Highland Avenue S.
Birmingham, AL

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)


Images


2006-12-21 - Console from right (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

2006-12-21 - Console from left (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main


Notes

2006-03-06 - Identified through information adapted from <i>E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List</i>, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: <br><i> Cleanup and rebuild of Aeolian-Skinner Opus 516-A after a 1992 fire. Some additional ranks after Möller work in 1970s.</i> -Database Manager

2006-12-04 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

2021-08-18 - The organ was replaced by Dobson Op. 90 in 2012. Several ranks from the Skinner-Moller-[Best] organ were retained, including the antiphonal division in a slightly modified form. -Jim Cook


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