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Austin Organ Co. Opus 1865 (1934)

Bard College: Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Annandale Road
Red Hook: Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Images

2015-10-05 - Chapel exterior (Photograph by School website, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2009-08-20 - Chapel exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Wikipedia, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

1934 - Console (Photograph by THE DIAPASON February 1935, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
3 manuals
33 stops
50 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
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: Remote Pneumatic/Mechanical Capture
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb 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

2014-02-02 - Prof. Carl A. Garabedian and J. B. Jamison designed the organ; it was completed by Austin in 1955, with some changes from the original stoplist; it then had 63 ranks. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from <i>The Diapason</i> September 1934 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

        Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
        Bard College, Chapel of the Holy Innocents

        Austin   Op. 1865   1934   3/46
        ___________________________________________________

        Stops without pipecounts are prepared-for

        GREAT                         SWELL
    16' Diapason        61        16' Salicional         73
     8' 1st Diapason    61         8' Geigen             73
     8' 2nd Diapason    61         8' Rohrflöte          73
     8' 3rd Diapason    CH         8' Salicional         12
     8' Concert Flute   CH         8' Viole da Gambe     73
     8' Viola           CH         8' Viole Celeste      73
     8' Harmonic Flute  61         4' Octave Geigen      73
     4' Octave          61         4' Chimney Flute      73
     4' Principal       CH         4' Salicional         12
     4' Open Flute             2 2/3' Nasard             
 2 2/3' Twelfth         61         2' Flautino           61
     2' Fifteenth       61     1 3/5' Tierce
 III-V  Kornett        269         V  Plein Jeu         305
    IV  Harmonics      244        16' Fagotto            73
   III  Mixture        183         8' Trumpet            73
        Chimes                     8' Fagotto            12
                                   8' Oboe               73
        PEDAL                      8' Vox Humana
    16' Wood Diapason   32         4' Clarion            73
    16' Metal Diapason  GT            Tremolo
    16' Contrebass
    16' Salicional      SW            CHOIR
    16' Spitzflöte      CH        16' Spitzflöte         73
10 2/3' Quint                      8' Diapason
     8' Wood Octave     12         8' Concert Flute      73
     8' Metal Octave               8' Spitzflöte         12
     8' Melodia                    8' Spitzflöte Celeste 61
     8' Cello                      8' Viola              73
     8' Salicional      SW         8' Aeoline
     8' Spitzflöte      CH         4' Principal          73
 5 1/3' Twelfth                    4' Flauto Traverso
     4' Fifteenth              2 2/3' Twelfth            61
     4' Melodia                    2' Fifteenth          61
     2' Twenty-Second          1 3/5' Seventeenth
    32' Fagotto                    8' Trompette
    16' Trombone        32         8' Clarinet           73
    16' Fagotto         SW         4' English Horn
     8' Trumpet         12            Tremolo
     8' Fagotto         SW         8' Tuba
     4' Clarion         12
        Chimes

       [Received online from Jeff Scofield February 2, 2014]

Documents

Write-up, concert commentary and console photo Console and write-up -Jeff Scofield

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#52303 - Austin Organs, Inc. Opus 1865 (1955)