The organ at the Fort Payne Opera House is an assembly of this-and-that from
many different builders. The console shell comes from the Kilgen at the
Pantages Theatre in Birmingham AL. The console works are from Klann, with
the work being done by Norville Hall of Mentone AL - who probably did most
of the other assembly work. The reservoir is Moller, the blower is Wicks.
Some of the pipes are obviously Kilgen, but origins unknown - though they
resemble work that Kilgen would have done for a church, not a theater.

Barger & Nix did pro-bono repair work on the instrument in the early 1990s
in order to get the instrument at least playable again. The Tuba was in
such terrible condition that it was scrapped. It was replaced by a Trumpet
from Wicks Op. 3136, formerly located at Red Bank United Methodist Church.

2 manuals, 5 ranks

RESOURCES

Bourdon/Stopped Flute 16' - 97 pipes
Diapason 8' - 73 pipes
(original 4' Octave with no basses;
1-12 from the Violin Diapason from
the Wicks from Red Bank UMC)
String 8' - 73 pipes
Celeste 8' - 61 pipes (Kilgen)
Trumpet 8' - 61 pipes (Wicks)

ACCOMPANIMENT

8' Diapason
8' Stopped Flute
8' String
8' Celeste tc
8' Trumpet
4' Octave
4' String
4' Celeste
4' Flute
4' Trumpet
2' Piccolo (Flute)

SOLO

16' Bourdon
8' Diapason
8' Stopped Flute
8' String
8' Celeste
8' Trumpet
4' Octave
4' String
4' Celeste
4' Flute
2 2/3' Twelfth (Flute)
2' Piccolo (Flute)
1 3/5' Tierce (Flute)

PEDAL

16' Bourdon
8' Diapason
8' String
8' Flute
8' Trumpet
4' Octave
4' Trumpet

GENERAL

Tremolo

Information and stoplist courtesy of Bill Barger of Barger & Nix