Unknown - Saginaw Auditorium (Vintage Postcard (1909)/Database Manager)
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2005-01-08 - Information identifying this instrument from the Austin Organs, Inc. website, accessed December 31, 2004: http://www.austinorgans.com/organ-research.htm. -Database Manager
2010-01-04 - Updated through online information from Will Scarboro. -- Austin provided a new console in 1927. The auditorium was torn down in 1972. The disposition of the organ is unknown. -Database Manager
2017-03-02 - Updated by James R. Stettner, listing conversations with this person as the source of the information: Joe Granger.<br> According to a Facebook post by Joe Granger on February 25, 2017 - the building was dropped with the organ still mostly inside. -Database Manager
2018-04-27 - Built in 1908, the 3000-seat Saginaw Auditorium cost $100,000 and was fitted with a $25,000 pipe organ. -Database Manager
Typed Specification Source: from The American Municipal Pipe Organ website Date not recorded
Saginaw, Michigan
Saginaw Auditorium
Austin Organ Company Opus 221 1908 4 manuals, 52 stops, 52 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN SWELL ORGAN
16' Major Diapason 61 16' Contra Viole 73
8' Principal Diapason 61 8' Diapason Phonon 73
8' Small Diapason 61 8' Violin Diapason 73
8' Clarabella 61 8' Viole d'Orchestre 73
8' Viole d'Amour 61 8' Viole Celeste (TC) 61
4' Harmonic Flute 61 8' Echo Salicional 73
4' Octave 61 8' Rohrflöte 73
8' Trumpet 61 4' Violina 73
4' Flauto Traverso 73
CHOIR ORGAN 16' Contra Posaune 73
8' Geigen Principal 73 8' Cornopean 73
8' Dulciana 73 8' Oboe 73
8' Unda Maris (TC) 61 8' Vox Humana 73
8' Quintadena 73 Tremulant
4' Flute d'Amour 73
8' Clarinet 73 PEDAL ORGAN
Harp 32' Magnaton 32
Tremulant 16' Open Diapason 44
16' Violone 44
SOLO ORGAN 16' Bourdon 32
8' Grand Diapason 73 16' Contra Viole 32
8' Flauto Major 73 8' Gross Flute 32
8' Gross Gamba 73 8' Violoncello 32
4' Flute Overte 73 16' Trombone 32
8' Harmonic Tuba 73
8' Orchestral Oboe 73 ECHO PEDAL
8' Saxophone (syn) 73 16' Lieblich Gedeckt 32
Chimes
ECHO ORGAN
16' Lieblich Gedeckt 73
8' Horn Diapason 73
8' Viole Aetheria 73
8' Vox Angelica (TC) 61
8' Gedeckt 73
4' Salicet 73
4' Fern Flute 73
8' Vox Humana 73
8' Cor Anglais 73
Tremulant
ACCESSORIES COUPLERS
Adjustable Crescendo Pedal Swell to Pedal 8 4
Balanced Swell Pedal Great to Pedal 8
Balanced Choir Pedal Choir to Pedal 8
Balanced Solo Pedal (Echo?) Solo to Pedal 8
Great to Pedal Reversible Swell to Great 16 8 4
Sforzando Pedal Choir to Great 16 8 4
Solo to Great Reversible Solo to Great 8 4
Double touch pistons: Swell to Choir 16 8 4
Swell to Great On, Off Solo to Choir 8
Choir to Great On, Off Swell to Swell 16 UO 4
Cymbals Choir to Choir 16 UO 4
Triangle Solo to Solo 16 UO 4
Snare Drum
Kettle Drum COMBINATIONS
Automatic self-player with Great 1-2-3-4-5-6
Solo device Swell 1-2-3-4-5-6
Transposing device two half Choir 1-2-3-4-5-6
tones up and down, or Solo & Echo 1-2-3-4-5-6
more is possible Pedal 1-2-3-4
50 Standard music rolls
20 Solo music rolls
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2018-04-27]
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