Better Pipe Organ Database

Austin Organs, Inc. Opus 2059 (1942)

First Presbyterian Church
505 S. Dewey
Bartlesville, OK

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
3 manuals
20 stops
33 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 coupler toe pistons

Notes

2005-01-08 - Information identifying this instrument from the Austin Organs, Inc. web site, accessed December 31, 2004: http://www.austinorgans.com/organ-research.htm. -Database Manager

2006-09-04 - Updated through online information from Charles Eberline. -- According to the church's web page, this organ was removed from the church in 1978 and sold to a doctor in Fort Worth[, Texas,] for $3,750. I know nothing about its current status and, with such skimpy information, am uncertain how to make a new entry for the instrument. The church now has a McManis organ (details at its web page). The Austin is the organ on which I had my first organ lessons; I think that I still have notes on the stoplist that I took then, but I have not been able to find them. However, my memory says that "34 ranks" should be "34 stops," and that the organ actually had 21 ranks of pipes, with many extensions and much borrowing. -Database Manager

2008-08-19 - Updated through online information from Charles Eberline. -- I suspect, but do not know for certain, that Op. 2059 replaced Op. 342. -Database Manager

2015-11-01 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- An ad in the "Classified" section of the -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: From THE DIAPASON May 1942

    Bartleville, Oklahoma
    First Presbyterian Church

    Austin   Op. 2059   1942   3/21
    __________________________________________________

    GREAT                          SWELL
16' Major Diapason     73      16' Gedeckt          12
 8' 1st Diapason       73       8' Diapason         73
 8' 2nd Diapason       12       8' Rohrflöte        73
 8' Salicional         73       8' Viola d'Gamba    73
 8' Melodia            CH       8' Viola Celeste    61
 4' Octave             73       8' Aeoline          73
II  Grave Mixture     122       4' Flute d'Amour    12
 8' Cornopean          73   2 2/3' Nazard            7
    Chimes             20       2' Flautino          5
                                8' Oboe             73
    PEDAL                       8' Vox Humana       61
16' Open Diapason      32          Tremolo
16' Bourdon            32
16' Lieblich Gedeckt   SW          CHOIR
16' Contra Dulciana CH 12       8' Geigen Principal GT
 8' Octave             12       8' Concert Flute    73
 8' Still Gedeckt      SW       8' Dulciana         73
 4' Flute              SW       8' Unda Maris       61
16' Contra Fagotto  SW 12       4' Hohlflöte        73
                                8' Clarinet         73
                                   Tremolo
                                   Harp Celesta   prep

       [Received from Jeff Scofield May 24, 2022]

Documents

Write-up from THE DIAPASON May 1942 Announcement, stoplist and photo -Jeff Scofield

Websites

Music - Pipe Organ [church website] - Brief notice of organ's history. (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)