Better Pipe Organ Database

J. W. Steere & Sons (1917)

Lee Street Methodist Church: Sanctuary
Lee Street
Americus, PA

Images

2023-06-25 - Church exterior (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2019-03-11 - Chancel choirloft and organ façade pipes (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2017-10-16 - Facade (Photograph by Keith Williamson/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
7 stops
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Setterboard
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - The entire organ in in a central chamber with a façade of dummy pipes in front of the swell shades. The façade pipes have been sprayed with a gold colored paint. -Database Manager

2005-04-22 - The reservoirs have been releathered. -Database Manager

2005-04-22 - The entire organ in in a central chamber with a façade of dummy pipes in front of the swell shades. The façade pipes have been sprayed with a gold colored paint. -Database Manager

2015-02-09 - Updated through online information from Gloria Spence. -- I have played this organ off and on since 1983 to the present time. -Database Manager

2017-10-25 - Updated by Keith Williamson, who has heard or played the organ. -Database Manager

2018-11-17 - Updated by Larry Pruett, the builder. <br> <br>This organ was releathered and restored to its original condition by Columbia Organ Works in 2006. All pipework and mechanism is original. A new blower was installed in the organ chamber as part of the restoration. -Database Manager

2018-12-16 - Updated by Larry Pruett, the builder. <br> <br>This organ was releathered and restored to its original condition by Columbia Organ Works in 2006. All pipework and mechanism is original. A new blower was installed in the organ chamber as part of the restoration. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist; some miscellaneous notes. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Americus, Georgia
Lee St. United Methodist Church

Organ by J. W. Steere & Son Organ Co., Springfield, Mass.
c. 1917

Great
    8'  Diapason           1-12, wood (tubed off); 13-61 linen lead
    8'  Dulciana           Zinc basses
    8'  Melodia            1-12 stopped wood; 13-61 open wood with lead 
                                tuning flaps

Swell
    8'  Gedeckt            stopped wood
    8'  Salicional         slotted; zinc basses  
    4'  Flute harmonic     Metal; harmonic from #25

Pedal
   16'  Bourdon


Enclosed in a single chamber.  Facade of dummy pipes.

Plaque above keydesk reads:
   IN MEMORIAM
   Sarah Margaret Culpepper
   1905-1917
   Minnie Sue Culpepper
   1914-1917
   Presented by
   Mrs. Jerry Mugivan
   and 
   Mrs. Bert Bowers

According to the church secretary, the Mugivans owned a circus.  The 
organ was donated to the church after one of the circus vehicles ran
out of control and killed the two children, who had attended the circus
and were walking home.
Jim Cook.  4/23/2005

Documents

Write-up from THE DIAPASON November 1917 Stoplist and commentary -Jeff Scofield