Better Pipe Organ Database

Austin Organ Co. Opus 1197 (1924)

First Baptist Church: Sanctuary
228 N. Main St.
Fall River, MA

Images

April 2016 - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2019-10-09 - Front Choir loft with twin organ cases (Photo from an archival source: Church Facebook page. Submitted by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
29 stops
32 registers
4 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)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2005-01-07 - Information identifying this instrument from the Austin Organs, Inc. web site, accessed December 29, 2004: http://www.austinorgans.com/organ-research.htm. -Database Manager

2014-05-05 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Updated by Matthew Dion, based on personal knowledge of the organ. -- -Database Manager

2014-06-06 - Updated through online information from Matthew Dion. -- This organ is located in the front of the church in a Balcony. Organ has three manuals: Swell, Great, and Choir. They are all enclosed swell alone and then great/choir. Pedal I believe is unenclosed and maybe some of the great? -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from <i>The Diapason</i> August 1923 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       Fall River, Massachusetts
       First Baptist Church

       Austin   Op. 1197   1924   3/29
       _____________________________________________________

       GREAT                            SWELL
   16' Open Diapason      61        16' Bourdon           --
    8' Principal Diapason 61         8' Open Diapason     73
    8' Small Diapason     61         8' Stopped Flute     73
    8' Melodia            61         8' Viole d'Orchestre 73
    4' Octave             61         8' Vox Celeste       61
    4' Harmonic Flute     61         8' Aeoline           73
2 2/3' Twelfth            61         4' Flauto Traverso   73
    2' Fifteenth          61         4' Violina           73
    8' Tromba             61         8' Cornopean         73
       Sub                           8' Oboe              73
       Unison Off                    8' Vox Humana        61
       Super                            Tremulant
                                        Sub
       CHOIR                            Unison Off
    8' Diapason           73            Super
    8' Concert Flute      73
    8' Flute Celeste      61            PEDAL
    8' Quintadena         73        16' Open Diapason     32
    8' Dulciana           73        16' Bourdon           32
    4' Flute              73        16' Gedeckt           SW
    8' Clarinet           73    10 2/3' Quint              7
       Tremulant                     8' Flute              5
       Sub
       Unison Off
       Super

      [Received online from Jeff Scofield July 14, 2014]