Better Pipe Organ Database

Austin Organ Co. Opus 1487 (1927)

Fairmont Avenue Methodist / Bethlehem Baptist Church
20th Street & Fairmount Avenue
Richmond, VA

Images

2012-04-28 - Church Exterior (Photograph by John DeMajo/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
2 manuals
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes

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

2009-10-26 - Updated through information from the Richmond, Virginia AGO web site. -- Church relocated to Bayard Road. Building sold to Bethlehem Baptist Church. -Database Manager

2012-05-20 - Updated through online information from Stephen Hall. -- All ranks except the Open Diapason (facade) are enclosed in a single swell box. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from http://www.churchesofvirginia.org Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

   Richmond, Virginia
   Fairmont Ave. Methodist Church/Bethlehem Baptist Church

   Austin   Op. 1487   1927   2/8
   _______________________________________________________

   GREAT               SWELL                 PEDAL
8' Open Diapason    8' Stopped Flute     16' Bourdon 12 SW
8' Melodia          8' Cello             16' Violone 12 SW
8' Dulciana         8' Salicional
                    8' Vox Angelica
                    4' Harmonic Flute
                       Tremolo

  [Received online from Jeff Scofield December 6, 2012]

Websites

Bethlehem Baptist Church, formerly Fairmont Ave Baptist Church, Richmond, VA. - Photograph, stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)