Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
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
2010-06-10 - Updated through on-line information from Chad Boorsma. -- This organ was replaced in 1943 by an Aeolian-Skinner Pipe Organ (Opus 1042). -Database Manager
2018-04-06 - Updated by Chad Boorsma -- The organ was dedicated on April 8, 1914, with Rev. Henry Beets giving the address and Mr. Walter C. Hartley at the console. A choir of 50 voices was also part of the program. Money raised by the young people of the church helped purchase the instrument. The organ was sold in 1943 to Calvin College in Grand Rapids (information from the church's 100th anniversary book). -Database Manager
Typed stoplist from the Dedication Program (April 8, 1914) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Grand Rapids, Michigan
LAGRAVE AVENUE CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH
Austin Organ Company Opus 489 11 ranks 1914
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GREAT: SWELL:
8' Open Diapason 73 metal 8' Violin Diapason 73 metal
8' Clarabella 73 wood 8' Rohr Flute 73 wood
8' Dulciana 73 metal 8' Salicional 73 tin
8' Viol D'Orchestra 73 tin
PEDAL: 4' Harmonic Flute 73 metal
16' Bourdon 32 wood 8' Oboe 73 reed
16' Lieblich Gedeckt 32 wood
COUPLERS TO GREAT: COUPLERS TO SWELL:
Great Sub Swell Sub
Great Unison Off Swell Unison Off
Great Octave Swell Octave
Swell Sub
Swell Unison COUPLERS TO PEDAL:
Swell Octave Great Unison
Swell Unison
Swell Octave
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