Better Pipe Organ Database

M. P. Möller Opus 9683 (1962)

Beecher Hills Baptist / Providence Missionary Baptist Church: Sanctuary
2430 Beecher Road, SW
Atlanta, GA

Note: Not playable. (in this location)

Images

2013-06-26 - Chancel and pipe display (Photograph by Bob Rose/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
22 stops
31 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)
Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2009-01-02 - Identified from factory documents and publications courtesy of Stephen Schnurr. -Database Manager

2009-05-13 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

2011-10-14 - Updated through online information from Connor Annable. -Database Manager

2013-05-23 - Updated through online information from Larry Verlander. -- I was a member when the organ was installed and was organist for several years. The church has been sold ... . -Database Manager

2013-07-01 - Updated through online information from Bob Rose. -- I visited the church on Tuesday June 25, 2013. We were members in this church until 1969. Beecher Hills Baptist Church was sold in 1993 to Providence Baptist Church. The organ is still unaltered in the original building and needs to be brought up to date electronically etc. -Database Manager

2013-11-07 - Updated through online information from Larry Verlander. -- The console is currently stored in a hallway leading from the main sanctuary and is not longer playable. Displayed pipes are still in place but unusable. -Database Manager

2015-03-29 - Updated through online information from Leonard A. Brown. -- I was the last person to play this organ in the late 1990s. The church, Providence Missionary Baptist was renovated; however it did not include the repair of the organ. Our music which is contemporary does not seem to lend itself to the pipe organ. The future of the organ isn't very bright. Obtaining funding in the form of a grant might save the instrument. A smaller console may work. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the factory specifications Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Atlanta, Georgia
Beecher Hills Baptist Church

Möller   Op. 9683   1962   3/26

       GREAT (*exposed)          CHOIR
    8' Diapason 61            8' Nasonflöte 61
    8' Bourdon 61 *           8' Erzähler 61
    8' Gemshorn 61            8' Erzähler Celeste 49
    4' Octave 61 *            4' Koppelflöte 61
2 2/3' Twelfth 61 *           2' Blockflöte 61
    2' Fifteenth 61 *         8' Krummhorn 61
  III  Fourniture 183 *          Tremulant
       Sub                       Sub
       Super                     Unison Off
       Chimes 21                 Super
       (present Deagan)
                                 PEDAL
       SWELL                 16' Bourdon 32
   16' Rohrbourdon 61        16' Rohrbourdon SW
    8' Rohrflöte 12           8' Principal 32
    8' Viole de Gambe 61      8' Bourdon 12
    8' Viole Celeste 49       8' Rohrflöte SW
    4' Principal 61           4' Octave 12
  III  Plein Jeu 183          4' Bourdon 12
    8' Trompette 61          16' Trompette 12 SW
    4' Schalmei 61            8' Trompette SW
       Tremolo                4' Trompette SW
       Sub
       Unison Off                ANTIPHONAL
       Super                  5  Blank Knobs

 [Received on line from Jeff Scofield May 13, 2009.]