Better Pipe Organ Database

Schantz Organ Co. Opus 309 (1957)

St. John's Episcopal Church
413 W. Cumberland Ave.
Knoxville, TN

Images

1987-09-10 - Nave and Antiphonal Cases (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

1987-09-10 - Sanctuary Interior and Chancel (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

1987-09-10 - Great Pipe Display (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

1987-09-10 - Console and Left Stop Jamb (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

1987-09-10 - Console and Right Stop Jamb (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
3 manuals
38 stops
26 registers
5 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
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
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2007-05-30 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The Swell, Choir and Pedal are in chambers on the left side of the sacntuary at the front. The Great is exposed in an elevated position against the far wall of the left transept. And the Antiphonal is in two divided, crenelated cases on the back wall of the nave. -Database Manager

2008-03-29 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Antiphonal located in small twin cases to each side of the large rear window; Great functionally displayed in west transept and balance of organ in chamber in the NW corner of the choir and nave; rebuilt and enlarged by Schantz as 3/39 Op. 2143 in 1998. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from <i>The Diapason</i> May 1957 and visit May 1989 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

     Knoxville, Tennessee
     St. John's Episcopal Church

     Schantz   Op. 309   1957   3/32
     _________________________________________________

     GREAT                           SWELL
  8' Open Diapason    61          8' Hohlfloete     61
  8' Rohrfloete       61          8' Viola da Gamba 61
  4' Octave           61          8' Viola Celeste  49
  2' Super Octave     61          4' Principal      61
III  Fourniture      183          4' Hohlfloete     12
  8' Trumpet          61        III  Mixture       183
    (added later date)            8' Trompette      61
     Unison Off                   8' Vox Humana     61
     Super                        4' Clarion        12
     Chimes                          Tremulant
                                     Sub
     ANTIPHONAL                      Unison Off
  8' Bourdon          61             Super
  4' Principal        61
  2' Blockflöte       61             CHOIR
III  Mixture         183          8' Rohrfloete     61
                                  8' Dulciana       61
     PEDAL                        8' Unda Maris     49
 16' Contrabass       32          4' Koppelfloete   61
 16' Bourdon          32      2 2/3' Nasat          61
 16' Rohrbourdon      12 SW       2' Flute          12
  8' Octave           12      1 3/5' Tierce         61
  8' Bourdon          12          8' Krummhorn      61
  8' Rohrfloete       SW             Tremulant
  4' Super Octave     12             Sub
 16' Double Trompette 12 SW          Unison Off
  8' Trompette        SW             Super
  4' Clarion          SW
     Chimes           GT

    [Received oneline from Jeff Scofield  July 14, 2011]

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#34196†* - Schantz Organ Co. (1998)