Better Pipe Organ Database

Unknown Builder (1965ca.)

Woodlawn Baptist Church
5600 First Ave. N.
Birmingham, AL

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

Images

1985-06-04 - Church exterior (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1985-06-04 - Console (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
3 manuals
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

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

2005-04-04 - Entire organ in one chamber, except for 44-pipe Pedal Open Wood (16'). Great 16' Bourdon and Great 8' Open were outside the shutters. -Database Manager

2006-12-04 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

2007-05-28 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- Organ originally built for 56th Street Baptist. Relocated to Woodlawn at an unknown time (possibly 1965) by an unknown person or firm. Replacement 3-man. Austin console in 1965. Tonal changes. organ removed to builder's shop for rebuilding and alterations. Perished in a fire there. -Database Manager

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#11211†* - Austin Organ Co. Opus 768 (1918)