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
2016-06-13 - Updated through online information from G. Mark Caldwell. -Database Manager
2017-10-20 - Updated by G. Mark Caldwell, who has heard or played the organ.<br> October, 2017 The organ when I first saw it about 5 years ago, had had its original console removed and I assisted a couple of other colleagues in the installation of a Rodgers interface unit to play most of the organ's assets through a 4-manual Rodgers digital instrument. Since that time, the church has built a new facility, and has abandoned and sold its downtown Bartlesville campus. They took the Rodgers instrument with them and installed it in their new facility and left the Austin in place, unused. The Rodgers interface equipment is still in place, inside the air box of the existing Austin. My colleague from Edmond, OK has bought the reed ranks for inclusion in another instrument to be installed in a church in Edmond, OK, and he and I will be returning to the downtown facility in the near future to inventory the remaining Austin pipework in order to assist the building owner in selling and parting out the remaining Austin components. Most of the flue pipework from the original Austin is still in place, as is the later-added Trompette en Chamade in the rear gallery of the auditorium. This pipework will be listed for sale in the very near future, and the remaining Austin mechanicals will be available to whoever wishes to take the time to remove it. It is basically a single about 5-6-foot high, 3-division (Swell/Choir/Great) airbox with a single regulator and the usual Austin actions on the top with various Pedal and manual offsets controlled by internal valves and external chests. -Database Manager
2021-07-14 - Five ranks (305 pipes) were sold in 2020 to be used by Ron Pearson for Kerr Chapel, FIrst Presbyterian Church, Tulsa, where they would replace old pipework. -Jeff Scofield
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