Better Pipe Organ Database

Austin Organs, Inc. Opus 2654 (1981)

St. Simon's Episcopal Church: Church
717 Kirchoff Road
Arlington Heights, IL

Images

2016-07-21 - Console (Photograph by Randell Franklyn Busby/Database Manager)

2016-07-21 - Pipe Facade (Photograph by Randell Franklyn Busby/Database Manager)

2016-07-21 - Altar and Pipe Facade (Photograph by Randell Franklyn Busby/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
2 manuals
30 stops
23 registers
3 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 (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb 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

2009-07-31 - Updated through on-line information from Gerard Montana. -- Console has stops for a prepared Antiphonal division designed to be placed in rear gallery. The three ranks of reeds in the Swell are independent and provide a powerful crescendo. -Database Manager

2011-09-19 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from <i>The Stopd Diapason</i> www.ohschicago.org Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

     Arlington Heights, Illinois
     St. Simon Episcopal Church

     Austin   Op. 2654   1981   2/31
     _________________________________________________________________

     GREAT                   SWELL                      PEDAL
  8' Principal   61       8' Rohrflöte        61    32' Resultant   --
  8' Bourdon     61       8' Gemshorn         61    16' Principal   12 GT
  8' Gemshorn    SW       8' Gemshorn Celeste 49    16' Gedeckt     12 SW
  4' Octave      61       4' Prestant         61     8' Octave      32
  4' Spitzflöte  61       4' Koppelflöte      61     8' Rohrflöte   SW
  2' Waldflöte   61       2' Octavin          61     4' Choral Bass 32
 IV  Fourniture 244   1 1/3' Quint            61   III  Mixture     96
  8' Krummhorn   49      II  Sesquialtera     98    16' Posaune     32
     Sub                III  Plein Jeu       183    16' Fagotto     SW
     Unison Off          16' Fagotto          61     4' Krummhorn   GT
     Super                8' Trompette        61
     Chimes      pf       4' Clairon          61        ANTIPH PEDAL (pf)
     Cymbelstern             Tremolo                16' Holzgedeckt
                             Sub                     8' Holzgedeckt
     ANTIPHONAL (pf)         Unison Off
  8' Holzgedeckt             Super
  4' Principal
  2' Fifteenth
III  Mixture
  8' Trompete

          [Received online from Jeff Scofield  September 17, 2011]

Documents

(1981-01-01) Austin promotional flyer -Jeff Scofield