Better Pipe Organ Database

Austin Organ Co. Opus 1700 (1929)

Grace & Holy Trinity Episcopal Church
415 West 13th St.
Kansas City, MO

Images

1979-01-01 - Postcard: Front of church with organ case (right side) (Photograph by Sackett Color Productions/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
3 manuals
34 stops
46 registers
5 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 (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb 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

2010-01-01 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ was dedicated in December, 1929. Additions were made to the organ in 1959 in memory of William Alfred Johnston and William Pilcher Johnston. The organ was rebuilt in 1969-70, but did not have the desired outcome. It served until replaced by the new Kney in 1981. Subsequent disposition of the Austin is not presently known. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from <i>The Diapason</i> August 1929 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

    Kansas City, Missouri
    Grace & Holy Trinity Episcopal Church

    Austin   Op. 1700   1929   3/34
    ____________________________________________________

    GREAT                          SWELL
16' Double Diapason  61        16' Bourdon            73
 8' Major Diapason   61         8' Open Diapason      73
 8' Minor Diapason   61         8' Stopped Diapason   12
 8' Grossflöte       73 *       8' Salicional         73
 8' Viola da Gamba   73 *       8' Voix Celeste       61
 4' Octave           61         8' Erzähler           73
 2' Fifteenth        61         8' Erzähler Celeste   61
 8' Harmonic Tuba    73 *       4' Flauto Traverso    73
 8' French Horn      73 *       4' Violina            73
    Solo Tremulant          2 2/3' Nazard             61
    Sub                         2' Flautino           61
    Unison Off              1 3/5' Tierce             61
    Super                      16' Contra Oboe Horn   73
    Chimes ƒƒ                   8' Cornopean          73
    Chimes pp                   8' Oboe Horn          12
                                8' Vox Humana         61
    PROCESSIONAL & ECHO            Tremolo
 8' Open Diapason    61            Sub
 8' Chimney Flute    61            Unison Off
 8' Echo Salicional  61            Super
 4' Echo Flute       12
    Tremolo                        CHOIR
                                8' Geigen Principal   73
    PEDAL                       8' Concert Flute      73
32' Resultant        --         8' Dulciana           73
16' First Diapason   32         4' Flute d'Amour      73
16' Second Diapason  GT         2' Piccolo Harmonique 61
16' Bourdon          32         8' Clarinet           73
16' Lieblich Gedeckt SW            Tremolo
 8' Octave           12            Sub
 8' Flute            12            Unison Off
 8' Cello            GT            Super
 8' Dolce Gedeckt    SW            Harp               61
16' Oboe Horn        SW            Celesta
 8' Tuba             GT  

 *  enclosed separately as a Solo section of the Great

   [Received online from Jeff Scofield May 14, 2014]