Better Pipe Organ Database

Austin Organ Co. Opus 1415 (1926)

First Presbyterian Church
554 McCallie Avenue
Chattanooga, TN

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

Images

ca. 1950 - Church Exterior (Photograph from church archives via David Cooper/Database Manager)

ca. 1950 - Sanctuary Interior and Chancel (Photograph from church archives via David Cooper/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
3 manuals
30 stops
41 registers
5 divisions
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe 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

2005-06-22 - Replaced by a 1971 3/49 Möller, Op. 10629. -Database Manager

2006-10-26 - Updated through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

2006-10-27 - Updated through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

2012-01-30 - Updated through online information from David Finch. -- This entire organ went to county dump 1969. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from the original contract courtesy of David Cooper Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

    Chattanooga, Tennessee
    First Presbyterian Church

    Austin   Op. 1415   1926   3/30
    ____________________________________________________

    GREAT                          SWELL
 8' Open Diapason     73       16' Bourdon            73
 8' Viol d'Gamba      73        8' Diapason Phonon    73
 8' Gross Flute       41        8' Tibia Clausa       73
 4' Octave            73        8' Viole d'Orchestre  73
 4' Wald Flute        73        8' Viole Celeste      61
 8' Harmonic Tuba     73        8' Echo Salicional    73
    Sub                         4' Flauto Traverso    73
    Unison Off              2 2/3' Nasard             61 
    Super                       2' Flautino           61 
    Chimes (Deagan A) 25    1 3/5' Tierce             61 
                              III  Mixture            -- 
    ECHO                          (2 2/3, 2 and 1 3/5)
 8' Viola             73       16' Bassoon            61
 8' Flauto Dolce      73        8' Cornopean          73
 8' Unda Maris        61        8' Oboe               12
 8' Vox Humana        61        8' Vox Humana         61
    Tremolo                        Tremolo
                                   Sub
    PEDAL                          Unison Off
32' Sub Bass          --           Super
16' Open Diapason     32
16' Bourdon Grande    32           CHOIR
16' Bourdon Amabile   SW        8' Violin Diapason    73
 8' Flauto Major      12        8' Concert Flute      73
 8' Flauto Dolce      12        8' Dulciana           73
 8' Violoncello       GT        4' Rohr Flute         73
16' Tuba Profunda     12 GT     8' French Horn        73
16' Bassoon           SW        8' Clarinet           73
                                   Tremolo
                                   Sub
                                   Unison Off
                                   Super

   [Received online from Jeff Scofield  May 15, 2011]

Documents

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

Websites

First Presbyterian Church [AGO Chattanooga] - History, stoplist [of the Austin and its MÃ¶ller replacement], photographs of the church (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)