J. W. Steere & Sons
Opus 345, 1892

Building and contents destroyed by fire, April 29, 2025.

Updated by William Dunklin, who has heard or played the organ.

Updated by Summer Jenkins, listing this web site as a source of information: http://www.commercialappeal.com/story/entertainment/2017/02/03/beifuss-file-can-clayborn-temple-organ-regain-its-voice/97409504/.

Updated through online information from William Dunklin.
Personal inspection of the organ in the 1980's showed the organ to have been badly vandalized, with almost every rank damaged. A subsequent visit in 2010 showed all pipes to have been removed by persons unknown. The organ was arranged Choir behind the Great. The Swell was above the Choir, with the Pedal divided evenly left and right. All were on slider chests which had been equipped with Austin external pull downs and pneumatic slider motors.

The five Pedal ranks were un-enclosed as were some of the larger Great ranks: a 16' Open Diapason, 8' Open Diapason, 8' Doppel Flute, 8' Gamba, and 4' Octave. The rest of the Great was enclosed with the choir. A set of chimes had been added inside the Choir box. The Pedal division was 5 ranks: 32' Bourdon, 16' Double Open Wood, 16' Violone (wood), 16' Bourdon, and 8' Gamba (metal).

The facade pipes were a combination of speaking and dummy pipes, originally polychromed, but later painted uniform gold.

Identified through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- From a photo, it looks like an Austin console was added at some point; congregation moved to new location in 1952; building was then used by Clayborn-Ball Temple AME Church;