Better Pipe Organ Database

Schantz Organ Co. Opus 321 (1956)

McCalla Avenue Baptist / Greater Warner Tabernacle AME Zion
3800 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave.
Knoxville, TN

Images

1987-09-10 - Church exterior (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

1987-09-10 - Console (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

1987-09-10 - Sanctuary interior (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
3 manuals
27 stops
16 registers
4 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: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2007-05-31 - Identified through on-line information from James R. Stettner. [Source: personal telephone communication with church staff May 29, 2007] -Database Manager

2008-03-28 - Updated through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -- The building was originally McCalla Ave. Baptist Church, which merged in 1987 with Chilhowee Hills (Bell Ave.) Baptist Church. Greater Warner Tabernacle bought the building and the organ. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the console September 1987 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

     Knoxville, Tennessee
     McCalla Avenue Baptist Church
  
     Schantz   Op. 321   1956   3/17
     _________________________________________

     GREAT                    CHOIR
  8' Open Diapason         8' Rohrfloete
  8' Rohrfloete            8' Dulciana
  4' Octave                8' Unda Maris
  2' Fifteenth             4' Flute         12
III  Mixture           2 2/3' Nazard         7
III  Scharf     pf         2' Flautino       5
     Sub               1 3/5' Tierce        pf
     Unison Off            8' Oboe
     Super                    Tremulant
                              Sub
     SWELL                    Unison Off
  8' Bourdon                  Super
  8' Viola
  8' Viola Celeste            PEDAL
  4' Principal            16' Open Diapason 12 GT
  4' Flute      12        16' Bourdon
  2' Octavin    12        16' Rohrgedeckt   12 CH
 IV  Plein Jeu  pf         8' Octave        GT
  8' Trompette             8' Rohrfloete    CH  
  4' Clarion    12         4' Super Octave  GT
     Tremulant             4' Rohrfloete    CH
     Sub                  16' Sub Trumpet   pf
     Unison Off            8' Trumpet       pf
     Super                 4' Clarion       pf

[Received online from Jeff Scofield July 14, 2011]