2018-07-13 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by Elizabeth Jones Hostetter/Database Manager)
2018-07-13 - Console and Pipes (Photograph by Elizabeth Jones Hostetter/Database Manager)
2018-07-13 - This entry describes a new home for an organ that was relocated without either tonal or mechanical changes.<br> Identified by Elizabeth Jones Hostetter -Database Manager
2018-07-14 - Updated by Elizabeth Jones Hostetter, who gave this as the source of the information: I just purchased this organ from the original owner's estate. I knew her and have the contract.<br>The organ is located in the middle of a large family room with high ceilings. I knew the original owner, Gayle Martin, who was a mentor to me in the 1970s when I was a young teacher. She was a nationally certified piano teacher and an outstanding and devoted member of Alabama Music Teachers Association of MTNA. She died April 19, 2018, age 97 in Gadsden, AL. I am honored to be able to now own the organ she loved since 1970. -Database Manager
2019-05-16 - Updated by Elizabeth Hostetter, who maintains the organ. <br> <br>George Miller, Miller Pipe Organ Services, Buford, GA, who moved it, closed the pipe toes, revoiced the organ, and releathered the stoppers for wood pipes in the Summer 2018. -Database Manager
2019-06-25 - Updated by Elizabeth Hostetter <br> <br> -Database Manager
2021-02-21 - Updated through online information from Elizabeth Hostetter. -- I sold the organ March 2020 to Tammy Jones, a church organist who has it in her home in Scottsboro, AL. for practice. -Jim Stettner
Digital scan of a published document, courtesy of Elizabeth Jones Hostetter. Source: Original contract with 1970 sale to Gayle Martin, Gadsden, AL 1970-06-10
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Original document from Elizabeth Jones Hostetter. Source: Stoplist taken from the console and contract specifications. 2018-07-20
Guntersville, AL Residence Organ by Wicks Organ Co. MANUAL I 8' Copula 61 pipes 4' Gemshorn 12 pipes 2' Blockflöte 12 pipes MANUAL II 8' Gemshorn 49 pipes 4' Koppelflöte 12 pipes 1 1/3' Spitzquint 12 pipes PEDAL 8' Gedeckt 4' Flöte 2' Choralbass
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