National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers: Protestant Chapel
Lamont St. and Veterans Way
Johnson City, TN
Images
2021-11-29 - Vox Humana and enclosure mounted on the swell box rear wall (Photograph by William Dunklin/William Dunklin)
2021-11-29 - 4' Flute Traverso (not harmonic) hand written note on cap and block is April 24. Presumably April 24, 1922. (Photograph by William Dunklin/William Dunklin)
Unknown - Moller opus 3355, Great Open Diapason 8' 42 scale, Note F, dated 1922 (Photograph by William Dunklin/William Dunklin)
2021-11-29 - Interior of swell box showing diatonic pipe layout (Photograph by William Dunklin/William Dunklin)
2021-11-29 - Organ facade (Photograph by William Dunklin/William Dunklin)
Unknown - Chapel (Photograph from an archival source: stateoffranklin.net, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- 2 manuals
- 7 stops
- 12 registers
- 3 divisions
- Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
- Stop action Type: Electrical
- Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
- 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
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
Notes
2009-09-30 - Identified through information in <i>List of More than 5200 Moller Pipe Organs</i> (Hagerstown, Maryland. M. P. Möller, 1928). -Database Manager
2021-11-28 - The Home is still in operation and is part of the Quillen College of Medicine at East Tennessee State University, Johnson City. -Jeff Scofield
2021-12-02 - Moller opus 3355 and 3356 were ordered as a pair. The facility is a protestant chapel and a Roman Catholic chapel which, in effect, share a common narthex. Opus 3355 was installed in the protestant chapel's chancel. Opus 3356 was installed in the Roman Catholic chapel's rear balcony.
Organ 3355 has 1-15 of the Open Diapason in the center flat of the facade. All other facade pipes are dummies.
Both organs are slated for removal during a major facility renovation in 2022.
Both organs were originally tubular pneumatic. Both were given new consoles and electro-pneumatic primaries on the original chests during the 1960s. Both organs appear to have become dereletic in the 1980s.
The plan as of this writing is for 3355 to be removed to expose central window in the chancel. Ultimate fate of this organ TBD. -William Dunklin
Stoplist
Source: Courtesy of the OHS Archives
Johnson City, Tennessee
National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
Möller Op. 3355 1922 2/7
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GREAT COUPLERS
8' Open Diapason 61 Swell to Pedal [8]
8' Stopped Diapason (Sw) -- Great to Pedal [8]
8' Dulciana (Sw) --
8' Viole D'Orchestre (Sw) -- Swell to Great 16,[8],4
4' Flute Traverse (Sw) --
Great 4' FINGER PISTONS
Swell & Pedal 1 - 3
Great & Pedal 1 - 3
SWELL (Expressive)
8' Gedeckt 61
8' Viole D'Orchestre 61 TOE STUDS
8' Dolce (tc) 49 Gt. to Ped. (rev)
4' Flute 61
8' Vox Humana 61
Tremulant PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression (bal.)
Swell 16' Crescendo (bal.)
Swell 4'
NOTES
PEDAL 1-12 of the Dulciana/Dolce
16' Bourdon 32 are from the Dtopped Diap-
16' Lieblich Gedeckt * -- ason/Gedeckt.
* Bourdon on soft wind
[Received from Jeff Scofield November 27, 2021]
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