Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2014-10-24 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by John McCraney, using information found in Diapason 1963. -- This installation was in a new church, still used, constructed 1964-64. The old, original church, c. 1857, had a Hammond C-3 from at least the early 1950s until the present church was moved to.<br>The Fritzsche organ has now been replaced by a Schantz, the details of which are in the OHS Pipe Organ Database. -Database Manager
Stoplist from the Diapason, 1963 (August issue--?) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Aiken, South Carolina
St. John United Methodist Church
Paul Fritzsche, 1963--Installation 1964
[The Diapason article text mistakingly gives the date of installation as 1961, although the print below the headline says 1964, which is correct. The new church construction had not even begun in 1961.
The stoplist was slightly changed after the article was printed. I have included the stoptabs' designations along with the original proposal in brackets where applicable. I am grateful to Mr. David Salter, an organist at the church for making these annotations and corrections on the photocopy of the Diapason article.]
The organ was at the choir/pulpit/east end of the large neo-colonial, arched, beamed-ceiling somewhat cruciform church. The organ pipes were placed across the width of the nave behind and one story above the choir,
with the Swell box on one end, the Choir box on the other, and the Great and most of the Pedal pipes unenclosed in the middle. The windchests' longest sides were parallel to the east wall, with full height for the open 16' pipes. The console was supply house (Reisner or Klann) with a setterboard drawer below the Choir manual. The stoptabs were on 45-degree jambs on each side of the manuals, with the intermanual couplers above the swell manual. Intramanual couplers were placed with their respective division's stoptabs.Console placement was at the base center of the choir loft, which had several permanent riser steps; the organist-director faced the choir. Grillework covered the pipes.
GREAT
16 Gemshorn 12 [?] [Diapason article:16 Quintade 61 notes]
8 Diapason 61
8 Rohr Flute 61
8 Gemshorn 61
4 Principal 61
4 Gemshorn 12
2 2/3 Twelfth 61
2 Fifteenth 61
IV Forniture 244 [Diapason article omits; spelling from penciled-in annotation]
Cathedral Chimes (proposed)
Great to Great 4, Unison Off
Swell to Great 16, 8, 4
Choir to Great 16, 8, 4
SWELL
16 Still Gedeckt 12 [?] [Diapason article 68 notes]
8 Geigen Diapason 68
8 Gedeckt 61
8 Viola 68
8 Viola Celeste 56
4 Octave 68
4 Gedeckt Fl. [ext.of 8-?: 'Fl.' not spelled out; Diapason article states 4 Flute Conique 61]
2 2/3 Octave Quint 61
2 Block Flute 61
1 3/5 Tierce 61 [Diapason article lists this as 1 3/5 Octave Quinte 61]
1 1/3 Larigot 12 [ext. of 2 2/3-?]
III Mixture 183
8 Trompette 68
4 Clarion 12
Tremulant
Swell to Swell 16, 4, Unison Off
CHOIR
8 Concert Flute 68
8 Kleiner Erzahler 68
8 Erzahler Celeste 56
4 Koppel Fl. 61 ['Fl.' not spelled out; original states Viol 4, which is crossed out and
Koppel Fl. substituted]
2 2/3 Nasat 61
2 Fifteenth 61 [Diapason article lists 2 Flautina]
8 Clarinet 68
Tremulant
Choir to Choir 16, 4 Unison Off
Swell to Choir 16, 8, 4
PEDAL
16 Contra Bass 12
16 Violone 12
16 Bourdon [Diapason article states '32 notes' but does not state from where borrowed]
8 Metal Diapason 32
8 Flute [Diapason article states '32 notes' but does not state from where borrowed]
8 Gemshorn [Gt.]
5 1/3 Quint 32
4 Choral Bass 12
4 Clear Flute [Diapason article states '32 notes' but does not state from where borrowed]
4 Gemshorn [Gt.]
4 Gemshorn [Gt.]
2 Super Octave 12
16 Bombarde 12 [Swell 8 Trompette extension]
8 Tromba [Diapason article states '32 notes'--presumably Swell 8 Trompette]
4 Trumpet [Diapason article states '32 notes'--presumably Swell 8 Trompette]
Great to Pedal 8, 4
Swell to Pedal 8, 4
Choir to Pedal 8, 4
The organ was replaced with a Schantz in 2004. The purchaser of the Fritzsche discarded the windchests and either kept and/or partially dispersed the pipes and the console.
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