Better Pipe Organ Database

A. B. Felgemaker Co. Opus 495 (1888)

Thankful Memorial Episcopal Church
1607 West 43rd St.
Chattanooga, TN

Images

1988-08-04 - Keydesk (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

1988-08-04 - Sanctuary Interior, Altar, and Organ Case (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

1988-08-04 - Pipe facade and console (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

1988-08-04 - Church exterior (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
12 stops
12 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2004-10-30 - From Christ Episcopal, Nashville. Reconditioned by J. F. Nordlie in 1987. -Database Manager

2005-02-21 - In September 2004 the organ was removed for restoration by J. F. Nordlie. Information taken from the website of the Chattanooga Chapter AGO http://www.parrisgraphics.com/sites/ago/pages/ThankfulMem.htm in 2004. -Database Manager

2006-10-27 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Located to the left of the chancel. -Database Manager

2007-04-28 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

2009-01-23 - Updated through online information from Eric Grane. -- Great to Pedal Reversible toe lever 2 fixed combination levers: Great forte & Great piano -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from the console Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       Chattanooga, Tennessee
       Thankful Memorial Episcopal Church

       Felgemaker   Op. 495   1888   2/12
       ___________________________________________________

       GREAT               SWELL                   PEDAL
    8' Open Diapason    8' Open Diapason       16' Bourdon
    8' Melodia          8' Stopped Diapason
    8' Dulciana         8' Aeoline
    4' Octave           4' Flute Harmonique
2 2/3' Twelfth          8' Oboe
    2' Fifteenth
       Unison Off          Bellows Signal      Pedal Check

      [Received online from Jeff Scofield  May 15, 2011]

Websites

Thankful Memorial Episcopal Church [AGO Chattanooga] - History of church and organ, photographs, stoplist and description of the organ (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)