Better Pipe Organ Database

Petty-Madden Opus 53 (2003)

Trinity Presbyterian Church: Dobbs Chapel
3003 Howell Mill Rd.
Atlanta, GA

Images

2004-02-29 - Chapel interior (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

2004-02-29 - Console (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

2003-06-30 - Façade (Photograph from OHS Archives/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
2 manuals
19 stops
22 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat 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)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2007-11-22 - Identified through online information from Stephen Hall. -- Organ is in regular use for services (2007). -Database Manager

2008-06-22 - Updated through online information from Bynum Petty. -Database Manager

2012-07-06 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The Petty-Madden opus list gives the number of ranks as 27. The stoplist presently (July, 2012) posted on the church website has 22 speaking stops. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist (Source: The American Organist, August 2007) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

      Trinity Presbyterian Church
      Atlanta, Georgia
      Petty-Madden Organbuilders, Opus 53, 2003
      OHS ID: 31179
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      GREAT                  SWELL             PEDAL         
    8 Principal            8 Viola          16 Subbass
    8 Chimney Flute        8 Viola Celeste   8 Principal Bass
    4 Octave               8 Stopped Flute   8 Gedackt Bass
    4 Hohl Flute           4 Principal       4 Choral Bass
    2 Block Flute          4 Koppel Flute   16 Posaune
2-2/3 Sesquialtera II      2 Octave            Great to Pedal
    2 Mixture IV       1-1/3 Mixture IV        Swell to Pedal
    8 Trumpet              8 Trumpet
      Tremulant            8 Oboe            8 Level Combination Action
      Swell to Great         Tremulant       8 General Combinations
                                             4 Divisionals per Division

      Manual keys of laminated construction with polished bone covers on
      the natural keys and polished ebony on the sharps.  Pedal keys made
      of maple; sharps capped with African blackwood.  70mm (+/- 2.75")
      wind pressure throughout.
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[Received online from T. Daniel Hancock, 2012-10-22]

Websites

organs [Church web site] - Stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)