Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
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
2004-12-21 - Information identifying this instrument from the Austin Organs, Inc. web site, accessed December 19, 2004: http://www.austinorgans.com/organ-research.htm. -Database Manager
2010-08-24 - Updated through online information from Edward P. Dagnes. -- Organ built and installed in John Ringling's "Gray Crag" summer mansion in Alpine, NJ, 1919. Reputed cost $50.000. After death of Mr. Ringling, sold and reinstalled in new brick and stucco Catholic Church of St. Joseph the Carpenter, Roselle, NJ, approx. 1938. Believed to be in original condition. Mr. Biza, Austin technician renewed the Harmonic Tuba in 1968. Mitred resonators on 12 note pedal extension. -Database Manager
2017-04-10 - Gray Crag was completed in 1919 on the New Jersey Palisades on the east side of the Hudson River north of the George Washington Bridge. Mable Ringling died in 1929 just before the stock market crash nearly wiped Ringling out; after a disastrous second marriage that ended in a ruinous divorce, as well as misguided business decisions that resulting in his losing Gray Crag, the man once among the wealthiest in the world died in 1936 with $311 in the bank. Gray Crag was torn down in the 1950's to make way for the Palisades Parkway, with the remaining property serving as a park. -Database Manager
Typed Stoplist Source: Stoplist copied from the factory specifications Date not recorded
Alpine, New Jersey
John Nicholas Ringling Residence
"Gray Crag"
Austin Op. 858 1919 3/32
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GREAT SWELL
8' 1st Open Diapason 61 16' Bourdon 73
8' 2nd Open Diapason 61 8' Diapason Phonon 73
8' Flauto Major 61 8' Stopped Flute 73
8' Viola 61 8' Viole d'Orchestre 73
8' Melodia 61 8' Viole Celeste 73
4' Flute 61 8' Quintadena 73
8' Tuba Harmonic 61 8' Salicional 73
Sub 4' Flauto Traverso 73
Unison Off 8' Horn 73
Super 8' Oboe 73
8' Vox Humana 61
ECHO Tremolo
Sub
8' Viola Aetheria 61 Unison Off
8' Vox Angelica 61 Super
8' Dolce 61
4' Fern Flute 61 ORCHESTRAL
8' Vox Humana 61
Tremolo 8' Claribel Flute 73
Chimes 20 8' Dulciana 73
8' Unda Maris 61
PEDAL 8' Vox Celestes 61
4' Flute d'Amour 73
16' Major Bass 32 2' Piccolo 61
16' Bourdon Bass 12 GT 8' Clarinet 73
16' String Bass 12 GT 8' English Horn 73
16' Dolce Bass SW Tremolo
8' Octave 12 Sub
8' Dolce Flute SW Unison Off
16' Trombone 12 GT Super
16' Fagotto 12 SW Chimes EC
Harp 61
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