Better Pipe Organ Database

Austin Organ Co. Opus 252 (1910)

Hotel Astor: Auditorium & L'Orangerie Room
Broadway between 44th & 45th Streets
New York City: Manhattan, NY

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

Images

Unknown - Balcony console (Photograph from the collection of Jim Lewis, via the NYC AGO NYC Organ Project/Database Manager)

Unknown - Ballroom interior (Photograph from Austin brochure, collection of Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Console position: Movable Console
4 manuals
75 stops
86 registers
8 divisions
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)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe 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

2010-11-16 - Updated through online information from Connor Annable. -Database Manager

2012-03-22 - Updated through online information from Steven E. Lawson. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from <i>The New York City Organ Project</i>, NYC AGO Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

    New York, New York
    Hotel Astor

    Austin   Op. 252   1910   4/77
    _______________________________________________________________________________

    GREAT                         SWELL                        L'ORANGERIE ORGAN
16' Major Diapason     61     16' Bourdon           73  
 8' Principal Diapason 61      8' Diapason Phonon   73         SWELL
 8' Small Diapason     61      8' Violin Diapason   73     16' Lieblich Bourdon  73
 8' Viole d'Amour      61      8' Hohl Flute        73      8' Horn Diapason     73
 8' Grossflöte         61      8' Viole d'Orchestre 73      8' Rohrflöte         73
 8' Doppelflöte        61      8' Viole Celeste     73      8' Viole d'Orchestre 73
 8' Claribel Flute     61      8' Echo Salicional   73      8' Viole Celeste     73
 8' Dulciana           61      8' Vox Seraphique    73      4' Violina           73
 8' Vox Angelica       49      4' Violina           73      4' Flauto Traverso   73
 4' Octave             61      4' Flauto Traverso   73      2' Piccolo           61
 4' Harmonic Flute     61      2' Flageolet         --      8' Horn              73
 8' Trumpet            61    III  Dolce Cornet     183      8' Saxophone         73
    Harp               61     16' Contra Posaune    73         Tremulant
                               8' Cornopean         73         Chimes            OR
    ORCHESTRAL                 8' Oboe              73         Harp              OR
16' Contra Viole       73      8' Vox Humana        73
 8' Geigen Principal   73         Tremulant                    ORCHESTRAL
 8' Concert Flute      73         Sub                       8' Open Diapason     73
 8' Quintadena         73         Unison Off                8' Concert Flute     73
 8' Dulciana           73         Super                     8' Viole d'Amour     73
 8' Unda Maris         61         Harp              GT      8' Unda Maris        61
 4' Flute d'Amour      73                                   4' Octave            73
 2' Piccolo            61         SOLO                      4' Harmonic Flute    73
16' Double Oboe Horn   73     16' Violone           73      8' Clarinet          73
 8' Clarinet           73      8' Grand Diapason    73      8' Vox Humana        73
 8' Cor Anglais        73      8' Flauto Major      73         Tremulant
    Tremulant                  8' Gross Gamba       73         Chimes            30
    Sub                        8' Gamba Celeste     73         Zylophone [sic]   49
    Unison Off                 8' Melodia           73         Carillon
    Super                      8' Dulciana          73
                               4' Principal         73         PEDAL
    PEDAL                      4' Flute Ouverte     73     16' Major Bass        32
32' Magnaton           32     16' Tuba Major        61     16' Lieblich Gedeckt  SW
16' Magnaton           12      8' Harmonic Tuba     12      8' Violoncello       SW
16' Open Diapason      32      8' French Trumpet    73      8' Flute             12
16' Second Diapason    GT      8' Orchestral Oboe   73
16' Bourdon            32      4' Tuba Clarion      12
16' Violone            32         Sub
16' Lieblich Gedeckt   SW         Unison Off
16' Contra Viole       CH         Super
 8' Gross Flute        12         Chimes            30
 8' Flauto Dolce       SW
 8' Violoncello        SO
16' Trombone           32

                  [Received online from Jeff Scofield May 10, 2014]

Websites

Hotel Astor - New York City [NYCAGO Organ Project web site] - Photographs, stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)