Auditorium-Armory: Auditorium
Gilmer Street SE and Courtland Street Se
Atlanta, GA
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
Images
1910 - Organ facade (Photograph from an archival source: Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)
Unknown - Console (Archival Photograph courtesy of Dan Pruitt/Database Manager)
Unknown - Auditorium interior, postcard mailed in 1917. (Vintage postcard, courtesy of William Dunklin/Database Manager)
Unknown - Auditorium Interior and Pipe Display (prior to 1937) (Image courtesy of the Atlanta Time Machine and submitted by Henry Batten/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Movable Console
- 4 manuals
- 75 stops
- 57 registers
- 6 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 (Details Unknown)
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
- Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Notes
2004-12-16 - Identified through information on the Austin Organs, Inc. web site, accessed December 16, 2004 -Database Manager
2006-11-02 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Installed in recess at back of stage with 40 foot wide pipe display; had Tuba Magna on 50" wind; console originally in orchestra pit; new console 1924; 7-rank Echo had own 2-manual console in separate smaller auditorium; main organ moved to attic chambers in 1937; building razed following sale to Georgia State University in 1979; pipes dispersed by A. E. Schlueter Pipe Organ Sales and Service. -Database Manager
2012-10-26 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Specification from <i>The New Music Review</i> (February 1910) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Atlanta, Georgia
Auditorium Armory
Austin Organ Company Opus 262 1910 4 manuals, 75 stops, 60 ranks
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"Specification of a four manual and echo organ being built by the Austin
Organ Co. of Hartford, Conn., for the Auditorium Armory of Atlanta, Ga., a
building approximately 250 ft. x 200 ft. The instrument is voiced on 5-inch,
10-inch, 15-inch and 60-inch wind pressures, has electric action throughout
with the console placed some 60 ft. in front of the main organ. The echo
organ is placed at the opposite end of the building in a smaller auditorium,
and can be used independently in that room from a separate two manual
console. The main organ occupies a space 68 ft. wide x 15 ft. in depth x
40 ft. in height."
GREAT ORGAN (II) SOLO ORGAN (IV)
16' Major Diapason 61 16' Violone 17 PD
8' Principal Diapason 61 8' Grand Diapason * 73
8' Small Diapason 61 8' Flauto Major 17 PD
8' Gross Flute 61 8' Gross Gamba 73
8' Doppel Flute 61 8' Gamba Celeste 73
8' Violoncello 61 4' Flute Ouverte 73
4' Octave 61 2' Super Octave 61
4' Harmonic Flute 61 16' Tuba 85
2' Fifteenth 61 8' Harmonic Tuba --
II Quint Mixture 122 4' Tuba Clarion --
16' Double Trumpet 61 Tremulant
8' Trumpet 61 Cathedral Chimes 20 notes
4' Clarion 61 8' Tuba Magna * (60") 73
Swell to Great 16, 8, 4 * unenclosed
Orch. to Great 16, 8, 4
Solo & Echo to Great 8 ECHO ORGAN (IV)
16' Lieblich Gedeckt 73
SWELL ORGAN (III) 8' English Diapason 73
16' Bourdon 73 8' Hohl Flute 73
8' Diapason Phonon 73 8' Viole Aetheria 73
8' Horn Diapason 73 8' Vox Angelica 61 tc
8' Viole d'Gamba 73 4' Fern Flute 73
8' Rohr Flute 73 8' Vox Humana 73
8' Flauto Dolce 73 Tremulant
8' Unda Maris 61 tc Solo & Echo 16, Unison Off, 4
4' Principal 73 Echo "on" Solo "off"
4' Flauto Traverso 73 Solo "on" Echo "off"
2' Concert Piccolo 61 Solo and Echo "on"
III Dolce Cornet 183
16' Contra Posaune 73 PEDAL ORGAN
8' Cornopean 73 64' Gravissima --
8' Oboe 73 32' Resultant Bass --
8' Vox Humana 73 32' Magnaton 44
Tremulant 16' Magnaton --
Swell 16, Unison Off, 4 16' Major Diapason 44
16' Small Diapason GT
ORCHESTRAL ORGAN (I) 16' Bourdon 44
16' Contra Viole 73 16' Violone 44
8' Geigen Principal 73 16' Lieblich Gedeckt SW
8' Concert Flute 73 16' Echo Lieblich EC
8' Quintadena 73 8' Gross Flute (M.Diap) --
8' Viole d'Orchestre 73 8' Flauto Dolce (Bdn) --
8' Viole Celeste 73 8' Violoncello (Violone) --
4' Flute d'Amour 73 32' Contre Bombarde 44
2' Flageolet 73 16' Bombarde --
16' Double Oboe Horn 85 16' Tuba Profunda SO
8' Orchestral Oboe -- 16' Fagotto OR
8' Clarinet 73 8' Harmonic Tuba SO
Tremulant Swell to Pedal 8, 4
Harp (upright piano) Great to Pedal 8
Orch. 16, 4, Unison Off Orch. to Pedal 8
Swell to Orch. 16, 8, 4 Solo & Echo to Pedal 8, 4
Solo & Echo to Orch. 8
ACCESSORIES ADJUSTABLE COMBINATIONS
Balanced Crescendo Pedal Solo & Echo 1-2-3-4-5-6
Balanced Swell Pedal Swell 1-2-3-4-5-6
Balanced Orchestral Pedal Great 1-2-3-4-5-6
Balanced Solo Pedal Orchestral 1-2-3-4-5-6
Balanced Echo Pedal Pedal 1-2-3-4
Solo to Great Reversible
Great to Pedal Reversible
Sforzando Pedal
SMALL AUDITORIUM ORGAN
"Two Manuals and Pedals derived from the main Echo Organ
operating on a two Manual and Pedal independent console."
GREAT ORGAN SWELL ORGAN
8' English Diapason 16' Lieblich Gedackt
8' Hohl Flute 8' Hohl Flute
8' Viole Aetheria 8' Viole Aetheria
4' Fern Flute 8' Vox Angelica
Great 16, Unison off, 4 4' Fern Flute
Swell to Great 16, 8, 4 8' Vox Humana
Tremolo, affecting GT and SW
PEDAL ORGAN Swell 16, Unison Off, 4
16' Lieblich Gedackt
Great to Pedal 8 ADJUSTABLE COMBINATIONS
Swell to Pedal 8, 4 Swell 1-2-3-4
Great 1-2-3-4
ACCESSORIES Pedal 1-2
Balanced Crescendo Pedal
Balanced Swell Pedal
Great to Pedal Reversible
Sforzando Pedal
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2014-09-06]
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