Better Pipe Organ Database

The Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. Opus 517 (1922)

First Presbyterian Church: Sanctuary
900 Greensboro
Tuscaloosa, AL

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Images

1948-01-15 - Console (Photograph from an archival source: Wedding album, submitted by Ellen Potts/Ellen Potts)

1948-01-15 - Organ chambers (Photograph from an archival source: Wedding album, submitted by Ellen Potts/Ellen Potts)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Horseshoe
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys in Horseshoe Curves
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Has crescendo
Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons

Notes

2010-01-09 - Identified through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- Disposition of this organ is unknown. It was advertised in the Diapason as follows: "Wurlitzer, 1921, for sale. 14 ranks, unified plus chimes. Send queries and bids to First Presbyterian Church, 2425 9th Street, Tuscaloosa, Ala. 35401" It was replaced in 1977 by a new 3m Casavant. -Database Manager

2021-06-14 - Replaced 1897 Henry Picher's Sons organ which was sold to Hunter Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church in the same city. -Paul R. Marchesano

Documents

March 7, 1922 Article from Tuscaloosa News 3/7/1922 Tuscaloosa News article entitled "New Organ for the Presbyterian Church Arrives" -Ellen Potts
(1922-07-15) Page from Wurlitzer brochure Photographs, letter from pastor -Database Manager