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Austin Organ Co. Opus 1285 (1925)

First-Trinity Presbyterian Church
500 N 5th Ave.
Laurel, MS

Images

2017-10-30 - Church exterior (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
4 manuals
44 stops
56 registers
5 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
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: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical

Notes

2004-12-17 - Information identifying this instrument from the Austin Organs, Inc. web site, accessed December 16, 2004: http://www.austinorgans.com/organ-research.htm. -Database Manager

2008-05-24 - Updated through information in <i>E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List</i>, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997): Rebuilt by Aeolian-Skinner as Opus 1498 in the late 1960s, re-using thirty-one ranks. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: From THE DIAPASON January 1926

       Laurel, Mississippi
       First Presbyterian Church

       Austin   Op. 1285   1925   4/45
       ______________________________________________

       GREAT                      CHOIR
   16' Dbl Open Diapason tc   16' Contra Viole     73
    8' Grand Diapason    73    8' Violin Diapason  73
    8' Second Diapason   73    8' Violoncello      73
    8' Flauto Major   PD 41    8' Concert Flute    73
    8' Viole d'Gamba     73    8' Quintadena       73
    8' Gemshorn          73    8' Dulciana         73
    4' Octave (2ndDiap)  12    4' Flute d'Amour    73
    4' Waldflöte         73    8' French Horn      73
2 2/3' Octave Quint      61    8' Clarinet         73
    2' Super Octave      61    8' Vox Humana       SW
   IV  Mixture        * 122       Tremulant
    8' Harmonic Tuba     73       Cathedral Chimes GT
       Cathedral Chimes  25       Harp             61
       Harp              CH
                                  ECHO
       SWELL                   8' Viol d'Orchestra 73
   16' Bourdon           73    8' Viole Celeste    61
    8' Diapason Phonon   73    8' Voix Seraphique  61
    8' Horn Diapason     73    8' Flauto Dolce     73
    8' Stopped Diapason  73    8' Unda Maris       61
    8' Doppelflöte       73    4' Fernflöte        73
    8' Claribel Flute    73       Tremulant
    8' Salicional        73
    8' Voix Celeste      61       PEDAL
    8' Aeoline           73   32' Contra Bourdon   32
    4' Flauto Traverso   73   16' Open Diapason    32
2 2/3' Twelfth           61   16' Bourdon Grande   12
    2' Flautino          61   16' Violone          32
1 3/5' Seventeenth       61   16' Bourdon Amabile  SW
   16' Contra Fagotto    73   16' Contra Viole     CH
    8' Cornopean         73    8' Flauto Major     12
    8' Oboe              73    8' Flauto Dolce     12
    8' Vox Humana        73    8' Violoncello      GT
       Tremolo                16' Tuba Profunda GT 12
                              16' Contra Fagotto   SW
    *  also draws 2 2/3'
       and 2'       

       [Received from Jeff Scofield January 10, 2023]

Documents

Write-up from THE DIAPASON January 1926 Stoplist and commentary -Jeff Scofield

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