Better Pipe Organ Database

Austin Organ Co. Opus 1052 (1922)

Trinity Episcopal Church
600 Franklin St
Michigan City, IN

Images

2012-05-15 - Sanctuary interior (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)

2012-05-15 - Sanctuary interior to rear (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)

2012-05-15 - Chancel and chamber opening (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)

2012-05-15 - Console (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)

2012-05-15 - Builder name plate (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)

2012-05-15 - Church exterior (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
2 manuals
16 stops
18 registers
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 Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti 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

2005-09-09 - Online update from Larry Bluhm -- When the organ was installed, the church chancel layout was typical of an Episcopal church of the times. A split chancel choir with an organ chamber on the left (openings to the chancel and nave) and the console on the right behind the last choir stall. In the sixties, it was decided to "modernize" the chancel area by moving the choir and console to the back of the nave and leave the pipes in their original chamber. Also, the opening from the chamber to the nave was closed up with drywall. -Database Manager

2016-09-19 - Updated through online information from George L. Karst. <br>As of 9/13/2016 there is no "8' Clarabelle" stop. The Buzard service book confirms that the 8' Clarabhella [sic] was replaced by a restored Kimball 8' Trumpet. The stoplist at the console reflects this change. Additionally some of the spellings and names of stops at the console are a little different than the OHS record. -Database Manager

Stoplist

On line update from Larry Bluhm, September, 2005. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Michigan City, Indiana
Trinity Episcopal Church

AUSTIN ORGAN CO., Op. 1052, 1922 - Original Specifications

   
<u>GREAT</u>                                        <u>COUPLERS</u>
16  Bourdon                                  Swell 8                  [to Pedal]
8   Diapason                                 Swell 4                  [to Pedal]
8   Violone                                  Great 8                  [to Pedal]
8   Doppelflote
8   Clarabelle                               Swell 16                 [to Great]
8   Dulciana                                 Swell 8                  [to Great]
4   Fl. Harmonic                             Swell 4                  [to Great]

Great 16
Unison On 8                                  <u>FINGER PISTONS</u>
Great 4                                      General                       1 - 8
                                             Swell                         1 - 8
                                             Great                         1 - 8
<u>SWELL (Expressive)</u>
8   Diapason
8   Rohrflote                                <u>TOE STUDS</u>
8   Viola                                    General                      9 - 13
8   Salicional                               Gr. to Ped.                   (rev)
8   Voix Celeste                             Sforz.                        (rev)
4   Waldflote
8   Oboe
8   Vox Humana                               <u>PEDAL MOVEMENTS</u>
    Tremolo                                  Swell Expression             (bal.)
                                             Crescendo                    (bal.)
Swell 16
Unison On 8
Swell 4

                                             ACTION: Austin Universal E-P windchest 
<u>PEDAL</u>
16  Open Diapason                            VOICES: 16          STOPS: 18
16  Bourdon                (Gt)  --
8   Flote            (Bour. Gt)  --          RANKS: 16           PIPES: _____





[Received from Larry Bluhm, on line update, 2005.09.04]
[Updated by James R. Stettner December 22, 2019 from online photos]