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Austin Organ Co. Opus 903 (1920)

First Baptist Church
Birmingham, AL

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)


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1920 - Edwin Lyles Taylor, church's Director of Music, at the console (Photograph from an archival source: From THE DIAPASON February 1921, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

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Notes

2004-12-15 - Information identifying this instrument from the Austin Organs, Inc. web site, accessed December 15, 2004: http://www.austinorgans.com/organ-research.htm. -Database Manager

2004-12-16 - The instrument was modified around 1940: a three-rank Mixture replaced one of the Great Diapasons, and some other changes might have been made. (Records are sketchy.) The room was enlarged and re-configured, leaving the organ in the original chambers, but moving the console to a new location against the opposite wall. In order for the choir to hear the organ from their new position, microphones were hung in the chambers and the sound relayed to the choir through small speakers. -Database Manager

2007-05-28 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- The Echo division was retained when the new Wicks was installed in 1980. -Database Manager

2022-11-12 - The organ was the first four-manual in Alabama. -Jeff Scofield


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