Better Pipe Organ Database

Austin Organs, Inc. Opus 2373 (1961)

Concordia Lutheran Church
41 Pitkin Street
Manchester, CT

Images

2010-11-07 - Rear gallery showing the detached console position and the central exposed Great pipework (Photograph by Unknown, submitted by John Anderson/John Anderson)

2019-06-09 - This was taken while the exposed Great division was still shrouded in plastic to avoid damage from further roof leaks. (Photograph by John Anderson/John Anderson)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
2 manuals
20 stops
28 registers
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)
Has crescendo
Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb 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

2017-12-04 - Updated by John Anderson, who has heard or played the organ.<br> As of October, 2017, the organ requires extensive repairs due to water damage to the chests from a leaking roof. Several ranks are unusable due to dead notes and/or high likelihood of ciphering. -Database Manager

2020-09-26 - As of the last time I played the instrument (January 26, 2020), all stops were functioning with a few scattered dead notes, with the exception of those stops marked "DEAD" in the stoplist. Those had not worked before the water damage occurred, either. The roof leaks proved to be very difficult to track down and the organ remained draped in plastic -- although still playable -- for well over a year. -John Anderson

2020-09-26 - As you sit at the console facing the pipework, the Great division is centrally located with its Principal chorus exposed. The rest of the Great division sits behind and is under expression. The Swell division is fully under expression and sits to the right of the Great, behind acoustic cloth drapery. The small bit of the Pedal division that is independent sits to the left of the Great, behind acoustic clouth drapery. -John Anderson

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from the console September 13, 2015 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Manchester, Connecticut
Concordia Lutheran Church

Austin Organs, opus 2373, 1961

GREAT: (enclosed)            SWELL: (enclosed           PEDAL:

8   Principal                8   Rohrflöte              16  Principal
4   Octave                   8   Viola                  16  Viola (DEAD)
2   Fifteenth                8   Voix Celeste           16  Gedeckt
III Fourniture               4   Principal               8  Octave
8   Bourdon                  4   Koppelflöte             8  Rohrflöte (Swell)
8   Dolce                    2   Blockflöte              4  Fifteenth
8   Dolce Celeste        1 1/3   Quint                  II  Mixture (DEAD)
4   Spitzflöte             III   Plein Jeu              16  Trompette
8   Krummhorn                8   Trompette               4  Krummhorn (Great)
     Great/Great 16          4   Clairon (DEAD)             Great/Pedal 8
     Great/Great 4               Tremulant                  Great/Pedal 4
     Great Unison Off            Swell/Swell 16             Swell/Pedal 8
     Swell/Great 16              Swell/Swell 4              Swell/Pedal 4
     Swell/Great 8               Swell Unison Off
     Swell/Great 4               Great/Swell 8

 [Received from John Anderson 2015-09-14.]