Austin Organ Co. Opus 1058-A (1937ca.)

Images

Unknown - Console after 1972 Austin Organ Company rebuild (Archival source not identified by contributor: Brad Cunningham (1972)/Database Manager)

Unknown - Swell Division Chamber (Archival source not identified by contributor: Brad Cunningham (1972)/Database Manager)

Unknown - Great-Choir-Pedal Division Chamber (Archival source not identified by contributor: Brad Cunningham (1972)/Database Manager)

Unknown - Swell Division (Archival source not identified by contributor: Brad Cunningham (1972)/Database Manager)

Unknown - Church Exterior (Vintage Postcard, courtesy of T. Bradford Willis, DDS (1910s)/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Notes

2004-12-16 - Identified through information on the Austin Organs, Inc. web site, accessed December 16, 2004 -Database Manager

2008-01-11 - Updated through on-line information from John McCraney. -- The church built a new colonial/Georgian church in west Augusta; the original building is still downtown, but the organ has been removed. Whereabouts of pipes unknown. Console rebuilt as two manual by Schantz and used with antiphonal division in balcony. Otherwise, the new build has a new 4-manual Schantz c. 1990. -Database Manager

2013-07-04 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Built as factory showroom/shop organ in 1921; moved by Austin to First Baptist Church ca. 1937. Replaced in new building in 1990 by 4/86 Schantz Op. 1978, reworking the Austin console for use as the Antiphonal console. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from the console early 1970s Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Augusta, Georgia First Baptist Church 1902-1975 sanctuary 802 Greene Street Austin Organs Inc., Op. 1058 Date instrument was built is unknown The story I recall as a young boy about the First Baptist Austin Organ Op. 1058 is that a deacon from First Baptist Church travelled to Hartford, Connecticut and purchased the organ from the Austin factory floor. Sure enough, if you research the Austin opus list, one finds that the organ was built for Austin Organs Inc., three manuals, 33 ranks. While it is unknown what year the organ was built, we know it had arrived in Augusta by 1937. It was dedicated for service in the First Baptist Church downtown Greene Street sanctuary on Sunday, March 21, 1937. I have in my possession a copy of the program. It was told to me as a teen that Virgil Fox was the organist for the dedication. However, no name is given in the program. The 1902 sanctuary was closed in 1975 and the organ remained sitting in the sanctuary for a year or two until the sanctuary was sold. The organist of First Baptist Church at that time petitioned to take possession of the organ. The deacons sold the organ to the organist for one dollar and gave one week for its removal. Most of the organ was removed. Pipes were stored at the organist's house and sold a few years later to someone in Florida, if my memory is correct. The console was returned to First Baptist Church for use as an antiphonal organ console in the new West Augusta sanctuary on Walton Way, reconfigured for use by Schantz Organ Company of Orville, Ohio. Here is the Opus 1058 stop list: Great 8 Open Diapason 8 Gross Flute 8 Concert Flute 8 Violin Cello 8 Dulciana 4 Harmonic Flute 8 Harmonic Trumpet Chimes Swell 16 Bourdon 8 Viola 8 Stopped Flute 8 Viole Orchestra 8 Viole Celeste 8 Salicional 4 Flute 2 Harmonic Piccolo 8 English Horn 8 Vox Humaine Tremolo Choir 8 Gross Flute (Gt) 8 Concert Flute (Gt) 8 Violin Cello (Gt) 8 Dulciana (Gt) 8 Unda Maris 4 Harmonic Flute (Gt) 8 Harmonic Trumpet (Gt) 8 Clarinet Chimes Harp Tremolo Pedal 16 Open Diapason 16 First Bourdon 16 Second Bourdon 16 Violone 8 Flute (Gt) 8 Violin Cello Echo (Great) 8 Open Diapason 8 Flauto Dolce 8 Dolce 4 Flauto Traverso Echo (Choir) 8 Flauto Dolce 8 Dolce 8 Vox Angelica 8 Oboe Gamba 4 Flue D'Amour Tremolo Echo (Pedal) 16 Echo Flute Couplers in their respective divisions: 16 Great to Great Great Unison Off 4 Great to Great 16 Swell to Great 8 Swell to Great 4 Swell to Great 16 Choir to Great 8 Choir to Great 4 Choir to Great 16 Swell to Swell Swell Unison Off 4 Swell to Swell 16 Choir to Choir Choir Unison Off 4 Choir to Choir 16 Swell to Choir 8 Swell to Choir 4 Swell to Choir 8 Pedal to Pedal 8 Great to Pedal 4 Great to Pedal 8 Swell to Pedal 4 Swell to Pedal 8 Choir to Pedal [Received from Brad Cunningham 2013-06-25.]

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