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L T Sprinkle & Associates Opus 10 (1976)

Weaverville United Methodist Church: Main Sanctuary
85 North Main Street
Weaverville, NC

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

Images

Unknown - Great pipework, ca. 1978. (Photograph by Lawrence T Sprinkle/Database Manager)

1977-02-02 - Console (Photograph by Lawrence T. Sprinkle/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
3 manuals
28 stops
15 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
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 combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2012-05-24 - Identified through online information from Lawrence T. Sprinkle. -- Swell windchest original to Pilcher 892, releathered. This organ began life as Pilcher 892. It was moved to and enlarged at Central United Methodist, Asheville, NC and later moved to Trinity United Methodist, Asheville, NC. Our company removed it from Trinity in 1976. Some pipes were retained for use in the Reuter organ installed at Trinity that date. -Database Manager

2012-05-25 - Updated through online information from Lawrence T Sprinkle. -Database Manager

2012-05-31 - Updated through online information from Lawrence T Sprinkle. -Database Manager

2012-06-03 - Updated through online information from Lawrence T Sprinkle. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Builder's records Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Weaverville, North Carolina
Weaverville United Methodist Church
85 North Main Street

Lawrence T. Sprinkle  1976

Division                 Pipes    Origin

 Great  (Expressive)      
 
    16' Gemshorn           73     Wetzel
     8' Open Diapason      61     Pilcher 892
     8' Genshorn
     8' Melodia            73     Moller
     4' Octave             61     N/A
     4' Flute
 2-2/3' Twelfth            61     N/A
     2' Fifteenth          61     N/A
     8' Trumpet            61     N/A
     

 Swell   (Expressive)

     16' Gedeckt           pf
      8' Gedeckt           85     Pilcher 892
      8' Gamba             61         " 
      8' Gamba Celeste     49     N/A
      4' Principal         61     Organ Supply Industries
      4' Harmonic Flute    61     Pilcher 892
  2-2/3' Nasard          
      2' Flautina 
     16' Hautbois          73     Wetzel
      8' Houtbois
         Tremulant

 Echo  (Note 1)
 
       8' Salicional              Pilcher 892
       8' Vox Celeste                 "
       8' Echo Flute                  "
       8' Vox Humana                  "       
       

 Pedal
 
      16' Bourdon          20     Aeolian
      16' Gemshorn         Gt
      16' Gedeckt          Sw
       8' Principal        Gt
       8' Gedeckt          Sw
       8' Gemshorn         Gt
       4' Chroal Bass      32     Pilcher
      16' Contra Hautbois  Sw
       8' Hautbois         Sw
	

 Full Couplers

Note 1 Echo not fully functional when organ was placed in 
       service 1976. Later removed for larger Antiphonal div.
       Pipework stored.



 [Received from Lawrence T Sprinkle 2012-05-26.]

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