Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co.
Opus 1338, 1956

First [United] Methodist Church

Sanctuary

200 West Lampkin Street
Starkville, MS, US

15 Ranks - 933 Pipes - 3 Physical Divisions
Instrument ID: 35579 ● Builder ID: 52 ● Location ID: 31448
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Builder: Unknown
Position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
Design: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Features:
2 Manuals (61 Notes)32 Note Pedal3 Divisions12 Stops15 RegistersElectrical Key ActionElectrical Stop Action✓ Combination Thumb Piston(s)✓ Coupler Toe Piston(s)✓ Sforzando Thumb Piston(s)✓ Sforzando Toe Piston(s)

Stop Layout: Tilting/Rocking Tablets Above Top Manual
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 October 14th, 2025:

Updated through online information from Tom Fayard [October 14, 2025]: I took lessons at this church regularly in college and substituted several times. The instrument described is no longer intact and has been unfortunately replaced by a Rogers 3 manual. I think this was done sometime pre-Covid, but I'm not exactly sure. The facade pipes are still present, but the pipe chamber is empty and has speakers inside it.


Database Manager on November 2nd, 2018:

Replaced with a 3-manual Rodgers in 2016.


Database Manager on February 21st, 2015:

Updated through online information from Jeremy Adcock.


Database Manager on March 17th, 2009:

Updated through online information from Jeremy S. Adcock. -- The stop list is the original Aeolian-Skinner stoplist. The organ was releathered within the last 10 years and stop action has been upgraded to SSL. There are 32 levels of memory with 4 general pistons (thumb only) with 4 divisionals for each division, thumb and toe great/pedal reversible, thumb and toe sforzando. Chimes were added with an on/off switch playable from the Great keyboard. The pedal 8' principal is the only independent pedal stop, the others are extensions with gt/pd and sw/pd at 8' & 4'. There are super and sub couplers for sw/sw, sw/gt, and gt/gt. The organ is in an older sanctuary with carpet only in the aisles. With all the hard surfaces, the Sforzando makes this litte 15 rank gem sound like 30+ ranks.


Database Manager on June 28th, 2008:

Identified through information adapted from E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: No information.

Webpage Links: Opus 1338: First Methodist Church

Related Instrument Entries: Lincoln Pipe Organs LLC (2023)

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