Grace United Church of Christ
121 E. Orange Street
Shippensburg, PA
Images
2023-08-28 - Original pneumatic relay for Pedal stop borrow, slated to be removed and replaced by solid state (Photograph by Andrew Moore via Facebook, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)
2023-08-28 - Airbox, stop and power note pneumatics (Photograph by Andrew Moore via Facebook, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)
2023-08-28 - Austin brass plate on airlock door (Photograph by Andrew Moore via Facebook, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)
Unknown - Console (Photograph by Andrew Moore (2017)/Database Manager)
Unknown - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by Andrew Moore (2017)/Database Manager)
Unknown - Deagan Tower Bell Console (Ten Notes) (Photograph by Andrew Moore (2017)/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
- 2 manuals
- 17 stops
- 18 registers
- Key action Type: Electrical
- Stop action Type: Electrical
- Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
- 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
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has combination toe pistons
- Has coupler thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2004-12-21 - Information identifying this instrument from the Austin Organs, Inc. website, accessed December 20, 2004: http://www.austinorgans.com/organ-research.htm. -Database Manager
2009-07-07 - Updated through online information from Daniel Dorty. -- This organ is has been virtually untouched since being installed and needs some restoration work done to the action, a few notes do not play, or have a slight delay, making it hard to play more complicated literature in this organ. Funds are being raised by the church to have the organ restored. -Database Manager
2023-09-14 - Information from Andrew Moore via Facebook:
I’m working on a 1925 Austin that had the Great division enlarged by three ranks at some point in the middle of the last century. It was done with Austin parts and was clearly done by someone who was at the least a representative of the company.
The added ranks: 4’ Octave, 2 2/3’ Twelfth and 2’ Fifteenth are actually stamped “Principale, Duodecima, and Decima” All have more European style mouths and are fairly well voiced to fit in the context of the original organ. -Paul Marchesano
Stoplist
Original document from Andrew Moore. Source: Stoplist Taken From Console March 2017 2017-09-23
Shippensburg, PA
Grace United Church of Christ
Organ by Austin Organ Co. 1926
PEDAL
1. 16' Open Diapason
2. 16' Bourdon (Swell)
3. 8' Swell To Pedal
4. 4' Swell To Pedal
5. 8' Great To Pedal
GREAT (Enclosed, Right)
6. 8' Open Diapason
7. 8' Clarabella
8. 8' Dulciana
9. 4' Harmonic Flute
10. 4' Octave
11. 2 2/3' Twelfth
12. 2' Fiftheenth
13. 8' Trumpet
14. Tremolo (Fan)
15. Chimes
17. 16' Great
18. Great Unison Off
19. 4' Great
20. 16' Swell To Great
21. 8' Swell To Great
22. 4' Swell To Great
SWELL (Enclosed, Left)
23. 16' Bourdon
24. 8' Open Diapason
25. 8' Rohr Flute
26. 8' Salicional
27. 8' Vox Celeste
28. 4' Flute D'Amour
29. 8' Oboe
30. 8' Vox Humana Seperate chest and trem.
31. Tremolo (Fan)
32. 16' Swell
33. Swell Unison Off
34. 4' Swell
CONTROLS
- 8 Great Divisional Pistons under Great manual
- 8 Swell Divisional Pistons under Swell manual
- 8 General Pistons Pistons on Typewriter Keys above Swell
- General Cancel
- Setter Piston
- Swell Expression Shoe
- Great Expression Shoe
- Crescendo Shoe with indicator light
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