Better Pipe Organ Database

Austin Organs, Inc. Opus 2184 (1952)

Zion Reformed Church: Zion Reformed Church
S. Ham Lane
Lodi, CA

Images

2017-03-29 - Console (Photograph by Vic Ferrer/Database Manager)

2017-03-29 - Stoprail (Photograph by Vic Ferrer/Database Manager)

2017-03-29 - Pedalboard and expression shoes (Photograph by Vic Ferrer/Database Manager)

2017-03-29 - Church exterior (Photograph by Vic Ferrer/Database Manager)

2017-03-29 - Left chamber (Photograph by Vic Ferrer/Database Manager)

2017-03-29 - Right chamber (Photograph by Vic Ferrer/Database Manager)

2017-03-29 - Sanctuary interior (Photograph by Vic Ferrer/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
3 manuals
33 stops
47 registers
4 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)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler 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. website, accessed December 31, 2004: http://www.austinorgans.com/organ-research.htm. -Database Manager

2007-09-06 - Updated through online information from Timothy Grenz. -Database Manager

2024-08-23 - Built in 1951-1952, it was one of a limited number of Austin organs produced in the 1950’s under a joint arrangement with James Blaine Jamison and Austin‘s tonal director, Richard Piper. Mr. Jamison worked with Mr. Piper on pipe scaling and was responsible for the tonal finishing onsite. Dr. Robert Baker played the dedicatory recital on November 23, 1952. The original contract price was $34,630. -Lanny Hochhalter

Stoplist

Stoplist from <i>The American Organist</i> October 1954 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       Lodi, California
       Zion Reformed Church

       Austin   Op. 2184   1953   3/41

       GREAT                        SWELL
   16' Violone PED               8' Orchestral Flute 68
    8' Diapason 61               8' Viola 68
    8' Diapason Conique 61 *     8' Viola Celeste 56 tc
    8' Flute Harmonique 61 *     8' Dolce 68
    4' Octave 61                 8' Dolce Celeste 56 tc
    4' Quintadena 61 *           4' Prestant 68
2 2/3' Twelfth 61                4' Rohrfloete 68
    2' Fifteenth 61          2 2/3' Nasard 61
  III  Mixture 183               2' Waldfloete 61
       Sub                   1 3/5' Tierce 61
       Unison Off              III  Mixture 183
       Super                    16' Clarinet 68
       Chimes                    8' Trompette 68
                                 8' Clarinet 12
       PEDAL                     4' Clairon 68
   16' Diapason 32                  Tremulant
   16' Violone 32                   Sub
   16' Gedeckt 12 CH                Unison Off
   16' Salicional 12 CH             Super
    8' Diapason 12
    8' Gedeckt CH                   CHOIR
    8' Violone 12                8' Gedeckt 68
    4' Diapason 12               8' Salicional 68
    4' Nachthorn CH              8' Voix Celeste 56 tc
  III  Mixture 96                4' Nachthorn 68
   16' Bombarde 32               2' Octave 61
   16' Clarinet SW             III  Zimbel 183
    8' Bombarde 12               8' Fagot 68
    8' Trompette SW                 Tremulant
    4' Bombarde 12               8' Bombarde 24 PED
                                    Sub
    *  Enclosed in CH               Unison Off
                                    Super

 [Received on line from Jeff Scofield June 10, 2009.]