Athens College / Athens State University: McCandless Hall: Griffin Auditorium
Athens, AL
Images
2012-01-01 - Inscription: letter K and "Organ # 24 / Athens / Ala." (Photograph by Dennis Milnar/Database Manager)
2009-01-26 - Building exterior (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)
2009-01-26 - Facade (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)
2009-01-26 - Keydesk (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)
2009-01-26 - Right stopknobs (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)
2009-01-26 - Left stopknobs (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)
2009-01-26 - Swell shoe (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)
2009-01-26 - Nameplate (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)
2009-01-26 - Pedalboard (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)
2009-01-26 - Facade pipes with traces of original colors (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)
2009-01-26 - Great pipework (first octave, C side; Open Diapason tubed to facade) (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)
2009-01-26 - Great Octave D#: inscribed name (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)
2009-01-26 - Stop trundles -- Swell (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
- Console position: Keydesk Attached
- 2 manuals
- 18 stops
- Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
- Stop action Type: Mechanical
- Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
- Pedal Type: Flat Straight
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Notes
2004-10-30 - From First Methodist Church, Athens, AL. c. 1925. Probably moved by Pilcher who allowed the Methodists $500 toward Pilcher Op. 1264 in 1925. -Database Manager
2009-01-26 - I visited the organ this afternoon; had only a short time for a superficial examination. Two combination pedals: Great forte and Great piano. Couplers on drawknobs, lower right terrace. Organ is in an addition to upstage wall of auditorium stage, an addition apparently made to the building when the organ was acquired from the Methodist church in 1925. There is an electric blower, but all the original hand-pumped mechanism is present and operative. If the Pilchers moved the organ they did a complete job of it. The only change may have been the substitution of a Voix celeste for what was more probably a tenor-c reed (Oboe?) on the swell. If that was done, it could have been completed before the move. -Database Manager
2009-01-26 - [The previous recorded date for this organ was 1905; the 1892 date is from a parishioner and staff member at the University -- undocumented at this time.] -Database Manager
Stoplist
Current stoplist (2009) from stopknobs Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Athens, Alabama
Athens State University
1892 Kilgen Organ
Current Stoplist [January 2009] from drawknobs
GT OPEN DIAPASON 8'
GT MELODIA 8'
GT DULCIANA 8'
GT OCTAVE 4'
GT FIFTEENTH 2'
SW VIOLIN DIAPASON 8'
SW STOP DIAPASON 8'
SW VOIX CELESTE 8'
SW VIOLINA 4'
SW FLUTE HARMONIQUE 4'
PED BOURDON 16'
TREMOLO
BLOWER
SWELL TO GREAT
GREAT TO PEDAL
SWELL TO PEDAL
{Jim Cook, January 26, 2009]
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