Better Pipe Organ Database

Norville Hall (1950s[?])

St. Paul's Episcopal Church
408 Dallas County 4
Carlowville
Minter, AL

Images

2023-07-18 - Console (Photograph by Matt Rhodes/Matt Rhodes)

2005-11-05 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2005-11-05 - Note on reservoir re: electrification (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2005-11-05 - Diagonal view of room - original façade (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2005-11-05 - Console (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2005-11-05 - Diagonal view of room - original façade (second view) (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2005-11-05 - Chancel from rear aisle -- console on left, organ on right (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2005-11-05 - Harmonic Flute 4' c - with notations scratched in face (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2005-11-05 - Harmonic Flute 4' c - another view (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2005-11-05 - Swell pipes (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
2 manuals
3 divisions
Key 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)
Has crescendo

Notes

2007-01-14 - According to church history, the organ is Erben's Opus 463, purchased and moved from First Christian Church in Selma during the 1920s. First Christian apparently acquired the organ from St. Paul's Episcopal in Selma, which replaced it (the Erben) with Roosevelt #466 in 1890. The date of the Erben's electrification here in Carlowville has not been documented, but the work appears to have be done in the 1950s. Jay Mitchell refurbished the organ's mechanics and pipework in 1987. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

Carlowville, Alabama
St. Paul's Episcopal Church

1868 Erben/Norville Hall

Stoplist [from console]

GREAT
      8'  OPEN DIAPASON
      8'  CONCERT FLUTE
      8'  DULCIANA
      4'  OCTAVE
          SWELL TO GREAT 16'
          SWELL TO GREAT 8'
          SWELL TO GREAT 4'
          GREAT TO GREAT 2'

          TREMOLO

SWELL
      8'  VIOLIN DIAPASON
      8'  STOPPED DIAPASON
      4'  FLUTE HARMONIC
  2 2/3'  NAZARD
      2'  FLAUTINA
          SWELL TO SWELL 16'
          SWELL TO SWELL 4'

PEDAL
     16'  BOURDON
      8'  FLUTE
      4'  FLUTE DAMOUR
         GREAT TO PEDAL 8'
         GREAT TO PEDAL 4'
         SWELL TO PEDAL 8'
         SWELL TO PEDAL 4'