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Austin Organ Co. Opus 443 (1913)

First Presbyterian Church / Downtown Presbyterian Church
154 Fifth Avenue North
Nashville, TN

Images

Unknown - Chancel, Console, and Pipe Facade (Photograph courtesy of Austin Organ Company and supplied by Paul Dessau/Database Manager)

Unknown - Sanctuary Interior, Chancel, and Pipe Facade (Photograph courtesy of Austin Organ Company and supplied by Paul Dessau/Database Manager)

Unknown - Church Exterior (Postcard Image (ca. 1910) submitted by William Dunklin/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals

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

2005-08-23 - On-line update from Melvin Potts -- Aeolian-Skinner console added 1946. Organ was substantially rebuilt and altered by the Milnar Organ Company in early 70s. -Database Manager

2012-09-17 - Updated through online information from William Dunklin. -- To clarify, this facility was built as First Presbyterian in 1850. In 1955, the majority of the congregation moved to the suburbs and took the name First Presbyterian with them. The minority of the congregation bought the old building and chose the new name Downtown Presbyterian. Downtown Presbyterian's building was designed by William Strickland in Egyptian Revival style. The first organ was built by E. & G G Hook with a case in the same exotic style. The Austin case replaced the Hook case and it too is in Egyptian Revival style. -Database Manager

2013-02-26 - Updated through online information from Paul Dessau. -- email from Austin organs--"The Organ contract was signed and the organ installed in 1913, later renovated in 1972 by Milnar Pipe Organ Service." -Database Manager

Stoplist

Taken from console sometime in late 1960s Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Nashville, Tennessee
Downtown Presbyterian Church

Austin Opus 443 (1913); Aeolian Skinner console 1946

GREAT						        ECHO
Major Diapason 16					Violoncello 8’
Principal Diapason 8’					Unda Maris 8’
Small Diapason 8’					Flauto Dolce 8’
Gross Flute 8’						Vox Humana 8’
Gross Gamba 8’					        Chimes
Octave 4’
Harmonic Tuba 8’
Chimes							PEDAL
							Lieblich Gedeckt 16’(Sw)
							Violone 16’
SWELL						        Open Diapason 16’
Bourdon 16’						Bourdon 16’
Viole Celeste 8’					Gross Flute 8’
Stopped Flute 8’					Violoncello 8’
Diapason Phonon 8’					Harmonic Tuba 16’
Echo Salicional 8’					Contra Fagotto 16’(Sw)
Viole d’ Orchestre 8’
Horn Diapason 8’
Flauto Traverso 4’
Contra Fagotto 16’
Cornopean 8’
Oboe 8’


CHOIR
Concert Flute 8’
Geigen Principal 8’
Quintadena 8’
Dulciana 8’
Flute d’ Amour 4’
Harmonic Piccolo 2’
Clarinet 8’


 [Received from Melvin Potts 2012-08-08.]

Documents

Contract for a new organ Stop specifications, with penciled scale notes -Database Manager

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