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Builder: Unknown
Position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
Design: Traditional With Roll Top
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Features:
3 Manuals (61 Notes)32 Note Pedal4 Divisions14 Stops28 RegistersElectrical Key ActionElectrical Stop Action✓ Crescendo✓ Combination Thumb Piston(s)✓ Combination Toe Piston(s)

Stop Layout: Drawknobs
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination Action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Control System: Unknown or N/A

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This instrument is: Not Extant and Not Playable in this location

Jim Stettner on May 6th, 2020:

Identified through online information from parish historian, Richard Gotshall. -- The Hall organ was originally installed in Grace Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Franklin, Indiana. Grace moved to a new building at the east edge of the city in 1965 but left the organ at the old church, which was sold. The church that took over the former Grace didn't use the organ and used the console to make a new pulpit. In 1985, the pieces were purchased and moved to the new church. Cave Pipe Organ Co. of Carmel, Ind., handled the renovation and reinstallation.

When the old organ was dismantled to be replaced by a digital pipe organ, the pipes were sold piecemeal to whoever would buy them. Four ranks of polished metal pipes were retained and are visible in the sanctuary, giving the effect that the organ is a true pipe organ. Before the sale, I went into the pipe loft and selected three large wooden pipes. I then mounted that together and hung them as a sculpture in a niche in the church along with a history of the organ and a list of all organists since the early 1900s.

Related Instrument Entries: Hall Organ Co. (Opus 592, 1932)

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