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Unknown Builder (1955)

Residence: Merrill Smith
Athens, TN

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

Images

July 1970 - Case and console (after being painted) (Photograph from an archival source: M. Smith, submitted by Matthew Krepps/Matthew Krepps)

1970-07-01 - Case and console (before being painted) (Photograph from an archival source: M. Smith, submitted by Matthew Krepps/Matthew Krepps)

Consoles

Main

Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
4 stops
3 divisions
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

Notes

2020-12-01 - The organ was delivered in 1929 to McConnell Erwin in Chattanooga, Tennessee - he was a blind organist who was the municipal organist for Chattanooga on the 4/76 1924 Austin at Soldiers and Sailors Municipal Auditorium. Around 1940, a Diapason rank was added to the organ and it was relocated to Brainerd Methodist Church in Chattanooga. It served there until the new 1000-seat sanctuary was completed in 1955, at which time a Baldwin Model 5 was installed in the new nave; it, in turn, was replaced by 4/68 Moller Op. 9982 in 1965. Op. 929 was sold in 1955 to Merrill Smith, Athens, Tennessee, where it remained until it was relocated to a private residence in Cleveland, Tennessee, ca. 2010. -Jeff Scofield

2024-09-24 - This entry represents the installation of a used organ in this, its 3rd home. -Jim Stettner

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