Mars Hill College: Moore Auditorium
79 Cascade St.
Mars Hill, NC
Images
2023-10-05 - Whiteford nameplate (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2023-10-05 - Aeolian-Skinner nameplate (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2023-10-05 - Auditorium interior floor view (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2023-10-05 - Auditorium exterior (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2023-10-05 - Auditorium interior to rear (Photograph by Jeffrey A Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2023-10-05 - Auditorium interior to front (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2023-10-05 - Couplers (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2023-10-05 - Right stopjamb with Clavier des Bombardes stops (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2023-10-05 - Left stopjamb (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2023-10-05 - Console side view (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2023-10-05 - Console (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
June 1966 - Console (Photograph by Eric Blackwell/Eric Blackwell)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
- 4 manuals
- 45 stops
- 61 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 (Details Unknown)
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Combination action: Remote Pneumatic/Mechanical Capture
- 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
2008-06-28 - 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> Dedication recital played by David Craighead on October 13, 1961; mechanically overhauled by David Whittier in 1985; nomenclature of stops changed; extant; unaltered.</i> -Database Manager
2012-06-03 - Updated through online information from John D. Psychas II. -Database Manager
2023-10-06 - The fairly live auditorium seats 1,700 and is named after a former longtime school president. The school became Mars Hill University in August 2013. -Jeff Scofield
Stoplist
Source: From *The Diapason* Date not recorded
Mars Hill, North Carolina
Mars Hill College - Moore Auditorium
Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co., Inc. Opus 1355 1957 4 manuals, 45 stops, 61 ranks
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HAUPTWERK (II) CHOIR ORGAN (I)
16' Quintaton 61 8' Spitz Viola 68
8' Prinzipal 61 8' Pommergedeckt 68
8' Holzgedeckt 61 8' Aeoline 68
8' Spitzflöte 61 8' Schwebung 68
4' Oktave 61 4' Spitzprinzipal 68
4' Rohrflöte 61 4' Koppelflöte 68
2 2/3' Oktave Quinte 61 2 2/3' Nasat 61
2' Super Oktave 61 2' Octavin 61
IV-V Mixtur 281 1 3/5' Terz 61
Glocken 1' Sifflöte 61
III Zimbel 183
RECIT (III) 16' Sordun 68
16' Flûte Conique 68 8' Krummhorn 68
8' Geigen Principal 68 4' Rohrschalmei 68
8' Flûte à Cheminée 68 Tremulant
8' Viole de Gambe 68
8' Viole Celeste 68 PEDAL ORGAN
8' Flûte Conique 68 32' Untersatz 32
4' Prestant 68 16' Kontrabass 32
4' Flûte Harmonique 68 16' Bordun 12
2' Blockflöte 61 16' Quintaton HW
III-IV Plein Jeu 226 16' Kontra Viola 12 CH
16' Hautbois 68 16' Flûte Conique RE
8' Trompette 68 8' Prinzipal 32
8' Hautbois 12 8' Bordun 12
4' Clairon 68 8' Quintaton HW
Tremblant 4' Choralbass 12
4' Flöte 12
CLAVIER des BOMBARDES (IV) III Mixtur 96
IV-VI Grand Fourniture 312 16' Posaune 32
16' Bombarde 61 16' Bombarde BO
8' Trompette Harmonique 61 16' Hautbois RE
4' Clairon Harmonique 61 8' Trompete 12
8' Krummhorn CH
4' Klarine 12
4' Rohrschalmei CH
Glocken HW
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2014-09-07]
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