Better Pipe Organ Database

Austin Organ Co. Opus 479 (1914)

St. Paul's Episcopal Church: Church
199 Carroll Street
New York City: Brooklyn, NY

Images

1915 - Church exterior (Photograph by Brooklyn Public Library via the NYC AGO NYC Organ Project, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2010-09-09 - Church interior to gallery and organ façade (Photograph by Steven E. Lawson via the NYC AGO Organ Project, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
38 stops
42 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)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination 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

2007-06-15 - Updated through on-line information from Thomas Lee Bailey. -- The organ was damaged but not destroyed by a fire in the late 1980s. It was rebuilt with a new console and a few tonal alterations and additions, but much of the original was left intact. A new Great mixture was among the additions. In 2003 a new swell mixture was added. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from <i>The Diapason</i> December 1913 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

    Brooklyn, New York
    St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Carroll Gardens

    Austin   Op. 479   1914   3/38
    ___________________________________________________

    GREAT                           CHOIR
16' Major Diapason     61        8' Geigen Principal 73
 8' Principal Diapason 61        8' Concert Flute    73
 8' Small Diapason     61        8' Dulciana         73
 8' Major Flute        61        8' Unda Maris       61
 8' Violoncello        61        4' Flauto d'Amour   73
 4' Octave Diapason    61        2' Piccolo          61
 4' Harmonic Flute     61        8' Clarinet         73
 8' Harmonic Tuba      61 a         Tremolo
    Chimes             25           Harp             54

    SWELL                           CHOIR ROOM
16' Bourdon            73        8' Open Diapason    49 c
 8' Open Diapason      73
 8' Horn Diapason      73           CHANCEL GREAT
 8' Stopped Diapason   73        8' Open Diapason    61
 8' Orchestral Viole   73        8' Muted Viole      61
 8' Viole Celeste      73        8' Dulciana         61
 8' Echo Salicional    73
 4' Violina            73           CHANCEL SWELL
 4' Traverse Flute     73        8' Melodia          61
 2' Flageolet          61
16' Posaune            73           CHANCEL PEDAL
 8' Cornopean          73       16' Subbass          32
 8' Oboe Horn          73
 8' Vox Humana         73 b         PEDAL
    Tremolo                     32' Resultant Bass   --
                                16' Open Diapason    32
 a  enclosed                    16' Bourdon          32
 b  separate box/tremolo        16' Violone          32 d
 c  says Open Diapason          16' Lieblich Gedeckt SW
    or Dictaphone                8' Gross Flute      12
 d  façade                       8' Octave Flute     12

   [Received online from Jeff Scofield March 16, 2014]

Websites

St. Paul's Episcopal - Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn [NYCAGO organ Project web site] - History and description, stoplist, photographs (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)