2021-07-09 - Identified from a document by Ronald J. Swedlund on the history of the organs of St. Paul's Methodist Church up through 1949. *"In 1944, St. Paul’s member Joseph Denniston, along with Butterfield Company of Detroit, donated the 1923 Barton organ from Monroe’s Family Theatre. Designed to accompany silent films and renamed the Denniston organ, this two-manual instrument spoke through a tripartite screen—designed by the architectural firm Bennett and Straight (Dearborn, Michigan)—featuring lattice-filled arches. In 1946, St. Paul’s members Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Betz donated indoor Deagan cathedral chimes “in memory of loved ones.” Named Betz Memorial Chimes and played from a keyboard near the organ console, these chimes were electronically amplified outdoors, from the church’s tower."* -Jim Stettner
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