Better Pipe Organ Database

Austin Organs, Inc. Opus 2704 (1986)

Ursinus College: Bomberger Hall
601 Main St.
Collegeville, PA

Images

2019-09-20 - Organ case and Trompette-en-Chamade (Photograph by Ernie Yeagley, via Emery Brothers Facebook/Jeff Scofield)

2019-08-23 - Facade (From Ursinus College Website, courtesy of Stephen Emick/Database Manager)

2019-08-23 - Facade (From Ursinus College website, courtesy of Stephen Emick/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Movable Console
3 manuals
49 stops
72 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Manual compass: 610 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: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2004-12-21 - Information identifying this instrument from the Austin Organs, Inc. web site, accessed December 20, 2004: http://www.austinorgans.com/organ-research.htm. -Database Manager

2006-05-03 - Updated through online information from Scott Crowell. -- 3 electronic 32 foot stops added to the Pedal division by Walker Technical Services of Zionsville, Pennsylvania. In 1986 the Austin Organ was given by Mrs. Lydia Heefner of Perkasie, Pennsylvania in memory of her husband, Russell Heefner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from <i>The Diapason</i> November 1988 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

     Collegeville, Pennsylvania
     Ursinus College
     Bomberger Hall

     Austin   Op. 2704   1986   3/62
     __________________________________________________________

     GRAND ORGUE                        RÉCIT
 16' Montre                         16' Bourdon doux         12
  8' Principal                       8' Montre
  8' Flûte harmonique                8' Flûte à cheminée     
  8' Bourdon                         8' Viole de gambe
  8' Gemshorn                        8' Viole céleste
  4' Prestant                        8' Flûte dolce
  4' Flûte conique                   8' Flûte céleste
  4' Quintaton                       4' Prestant
  2' Doublette                       4' Flûte de bois
 IV  Fourniture                      2' Flûte à bec
III  Cymbale                        II  Petite Cornet
  8' Trompette                      IV  Plein Jeu
  8' Trompette-en-Chamade           16' Contre Trompette
     Tremblant                       8' Trompette
     Cloches (in Récit)              8' Hautbois
     Harpte  (in Positif)            8' Voix humaine
                                     4' Clairon
     PÉDALE                             Tremblant
 32' Montre            dg
 32' Subbass           dg               POSITIF (enclosed)
 16' Principal                      16' Flûte conique        12
 16' Montre            GO            8' Bourdon en bois
 16' Subbass                         8' Flûte conique
 16' Gemshorn          12 GO         8' Céleste
 16' Bourdon doux                    4' Prestant
 16' Flûte conique     PO            4' Flûte à fuseau
  8' Prestant                    2 2/3' Nazard
  8' Subbass           12            2' Octavin
  8' Flûte à cheminée  RE        1 3/5' Tierce
  4' Basse de chorale            1 1/3' Larigot
  4' Cor de nuit                   III  Cymbale
  2' Flûte             12           16' Contre Trompette     SW
III  Fourniture        96            8' Bombarde
 32' Contre Bombarde   12            8' Trompette            RE
 32' Contre Trompette  dg            8' Cromorne
 16' Bombarde          32            8' Hautbois             RE
 16' Trompette         RE            4' Clairon              RE
  8' Bombarde          12            4' Chalumeau à cheminée 
  4' Clairon           RE               Tremblant
  4' Hautbois          RE            8' Trompette-en-chamade GO
  4' Cromorne          PO               Clochette
     Cloches           GO               Harpe

    [Received online from Jeff Scofield March 25, 2014]