The 1980 chapter of Opus 16 at St. George's Episcopal Church
Martin Ott Opus 16 is the rebuilt organ at St. George's Episcopal Church in Clarksdale, Mississippi. After Peace Lutheran closed, the builder bought its earlier instrument and offered it for another home. For St. George's, the organ received a larger case, revised scaling and voicing, plus Viola, Celeste, Fagott, and Choralbass resources.
The surviving account pairs Opus 16 with 1980. Without an event label, that pair is best read as catalogue chronology. The named place, St. George's Episcopal Church in Clarksdale, Mississippi, gives the date its context; a programme or invoice could distinguish order from completion. No present-state conclusion follows.
Clarksdale as the setting for Opus 16
Opus 16 is documented at St. George's Episcopal Church in Clarksdale, Mississippi. The church name establishes who stood behind the project, but it does not reveal the room's size, materials, or acoustic behaviour. Claims about worship use or public recital belong here only when a dated local source supplies them.
The recorded scale of Opus 16 at St. George's Episcopal Church
The Opus 16 overview lists 17 stop controls alongside 19 ranks. A rank follows the keyboard compass at a given pitch and tone, whereas a stop may engage one rank or several. A difference of 2 separates the rank and stop counts for Opus 16. Several pipe rows may answer one control, but the exact arrangement remains undocumented here. Names and pitches remain missing, so the musical reading stays deliberately limited.
A complete disposition would turn the short Opus 16 overview into a much clearer technical portrait. It could show how the recorded totals were distributed and which controls drew more than one pipe row. For St. George's Episcopal Church, such a document would also make later alterations easier to recognize. The current evidence stops with 17 stops | 19 ranks Mechanical action, so the missing detail remains a research question rather than an invitation to guess.
Action and control in the Clarksdale project: Opus 16
For Opus 16 at St. George's Episcopal Church, the project summary uses the term mechanical action. In practice, that means the key movement reaches a wind valve through physical linkage rather than an electric-only command. The page does not diagram that linkage or report its later maintenance.
Beyond the totals: one clue from St. George's Episcopal Church: Opus 16
The source adds a human and physical dimension to Opus 16: an earlier instrument was acquired after Peace Lutheran closed and it received a new case for St. George's. A church organ can carry several musical duties, but this evidence supports only the features and events it names. It does not reveal a normal registration practice or the balance between organ, choir, and congregation. The stop list and parish programmes would answer those questions separately. The listed 17-stop, 19-rank scale remains the numerical boundary for this reading.
The later chapter at St. George's Episcopal Church: Opus 16
Both manuals were enclosed except for the facade 8-foot Prinzipal. St. George's dedicated the 17-stop mechanical instrument on September 26, 2004. The source describes a substantial adaptation to the new room rather than a simple transfer, with changes to case, tonal design, and enclosure completed before the dedication.
Photographs and unanswered questions from Clarksdale: Opus 16
Opus 16 has 6 archived image references that agree with the project number. The first is images/016/016_m.jpg. Before an image is placed beside the St. George's Episcopal Church article, its subject, date, photographer, and reuse terms need verification. No complete attribution or permission statement survives in the extracted page.
The archived narrative gives Opus 16 a history, not a current inspection. A new statement from St. George's Episcopal Church could confirm whether the organ remains in Clarksdale, Mississippi and identify later work. A dated stop list would then allow a responsible comparison with the original project.