Better Pipe Organ Database

Austin Organ Co. Opus 581 (1915)

First Presbyterian Church: Sanctuary
305 East Main Street
Durham, NC

Images

2023-01-25 - Church exterior (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

3 manuals
32 registers
5 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
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
Has combination thumb pistons

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

2014-02-27 - According to the church website, the organ was upgraded and expanded in 1964. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from <i>The Diapason</i> January 1917 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

    Durham, North Carolina
    First Presbyterian Church

    Austin   Op. 581   1915
    ___________________________________________

    GREAT (*encl in CH)        CHOIR
16' Bourdon                 8' Geigen Principal
 8' Open Diapason           8' Concert Flute
 8' Violoncello      *      8' Dulciana
 8' Grossflöte       *      8' Unda Maris
 8' Gemshorn         *      4' Flute d'Amour
 4' Octave                  8' Clarinet
 4' Harmonic Flute   *         Tremulant

    SWELL                      ECHO
16' Lieblich Gedeckt        8' Lieblich Gedeckt
 8' Open Diapason           8' Viole Aetheria
 8' Rohrflöte               8' Vox Angelica
 8' Viole d'Orchestre       4' Fernflöte
 8' Viole Celeste           8' Vox Humana
 8' Echo Salicional            Tremulant
 4' Flauto Traverso            Chimes
 2' Flageolet
 8' Cornopean                  PEDAL
 8' Oboe                   16' Open Diapason
    Tremulant              16' Bourdon
                           16' Lieblich Gedeckt
                            8' Grossflöte

[Received online from Jeff Scofield April 8, 2014]

Documents

Write-up from THE DIAPASON January 1917 Stoplist and commentary -Jeff Scofield