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Austin Organ Co. Opus 1670 (1929)

Visitation Roman Catholic Church [now St. Basil-Visitation]
843 W. Garfield Boulevard
Chicago, IL

Note: Not playable. (in this location)


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2024-06-08 - Organ in rear gallery, console covered (Church Facebook Page/Daniel Boin)

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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

2012-02-10 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

2024-04-17 - St. Basil Catholic Church was merged with Visitation. The St. Basil 1926 Reuter was destroyed with the church in 1998. Robert Rusczyk reported in April 2024 of the condition of the Visitation Austin that it is intact but not playable. -Jim Stettner


Stoplist

Stoplist from <i>The Stopd Diapason</i>, the journal of the Chicago OHS Chapter Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

    Chicago, Illinois
    Visitation R. C. Church

    Austin   Op. 1670   1929   3/28
    ________________________________________________

    GREAT (encl w/CH)           SWELL
16' Bourdon          73     16' Bourdon           73
 8' 1st Diapason     73      8' Open Diapason     73
 8' 2nd Diapason     73      8' Stopped Flute     12
 8' Doppel Flute     73      8' Viole d'Orchestre 73
 8' Gemshorn         73      8' Voix Celeste      61
 4' Octave           61      8' Echo Salicional   73
 4' Harmonic Flute   61      4' Flauto Traverso   73
 8' Tuba Mirabilis   73      2' Flautino          61
    Sub                      8' Cornopean         73
    Unison On                8' Oboe              73
    Super                    8' Vox Humana        61
    Chimes           25         Tremolo
                                Sub
    CHOIR                       Unison On
 8' Geigen Principal 73         Super
 8' Melodia          73
 8' Dulciana         73         ECHO (prepared for)
 8' Unda Maris       61      6  blanks
 4' Flute            73
 2' Harmonic Piccolo 61         PEDAL
 8' Clarinet         73     16' Open Diapason     32
    Tremolo                 16' Violone           32
    Sub                     16' Bourdon           GT
    Unison On               16' Lieblich Gedeckt  SW
    Super                    8' Octave            12
    Harp             61      8' Flute             GT
                            16' Trombone          32

[Received online from Jeff Scofield February 7, 2012]

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