Better Pipe Organ Database

Austin Organ Co. Opus 1586 (1929)

Heavenly Rest Episcopal Church
Fifth Avenue at 90th Street
New York City: Manhattan, NY

Images

Unknown - Console front (Photograph via Steven E. Lawson/Database Manager)

Unknown - Console angle (Photograph via Steven E. Lawson/Database Manager)

Unknown - Console seen through grillework in its normal spot (Photograph via Steven E. Lawson/Database Manager)

Unknown - Console rear shot (Photograph via Steven E. Lawson/Database Manager)

Unknown - Console with cover down (Photograph via Steven E. Lawson/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
Console position: Movable Console
4 manuals
71 stops
92 registers
9 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
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 toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Enlarged by Austin in 1961 and 1972. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Cleaned and revoiced by James Konzelman after 1993 fire, with additions (145 ranks). New 5m Guilbault-Therien console replaced Austin console which was destroyed by fire. SS console & combination action. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from <i>The New York City Organ Project</i>, NYC AGO website Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

  New York, New York
       Church of the Heavenly Rest

       Austin   Op. 1586   1929   4/75
       _________________________________________________

       GREAT (*enclosed)             CHOIR
   16' Double Diapason   61      16' Double Dulciana  61 
    8' First Diapason    61       8' Open Diapason    73
    8' Second Diapason   61       8' Viola da Gamba   73
    8' Third Diapason    61 *     8' Melodia          73
    8' Gross Floete      61       8' Flute Celeste    73
    8' Gedackt           61 *     8' Quintadena       73
    8' Viole             61 *     8' Dulciana         12
    8' Gemshorn          61 *     8' Unda Maris       61
    4' Principal         61       4' Flute d'Amour    73
    4' Harmonic Flute    61 *     4' Dolce            12
2 2/3' Twelfth           61       2' Piccolo          61
    2' Fifteenth         61       2' Dulcet           12
   IV  Mixture          244 *     1' Dulcinet         12
   16' Double Trumpet    61 *     8' Clarinet         73
    8' Trumpet           61 *     8' English Horn     73
    4' Clarion           61 *        Tremolo
       Sub                           Sub
       Unison Off                    Unison Off
       Super                         Super
                                  8' Tuba Mirabilis   SO
       SWELL                         Harp             61
   16' Bourdon           73          Celesta
    8' Open Diapason     73
    8' Second Diapason   73          ECHO
    8' Clarabella        73       8' Cor d'Nuit       73
    8' Chimney Flute     73 +     8' Viole Aetheria   73
    8' Viole d'Orchestre 73       8' Vox Angelica     61
    8' Viole Celeste     61       8' Gedackt          73
    8' Salicional        73       4' Fern Flute       73
    8' Voix Celeste      73 +     8' Oboe             73
    8' Aeoline           73 +     8' Vox Humana       61
    4' Fugara            73          Tremolo
    4' Flauto Traverso   73 +        Chimes           25
2 2/3' Nazard            61 s
    2' Flautino          61 s        PROCESSIONAL
1 3/5' Tierce            61 s       (in Choir Room)
    1' Twenty-Second     61 s     8' Pitch Diapason   49
   16' Fagotto           73
    8' Cornopean         73          PEDAL
    8' Corno d'Amore     73      32' Contra Bourdon   32
    8' Oboe              73      16' First Diapason   32
    8' Vox Humana        61 +    16' Second Diapason  GT
    4' Clarion           73      16' Bourdon          12
       Tremolo                   16' Violone          12 CH
       Antiphonal Tremulant      16' Dolce Bourdon    SW
       Sub                       16' Dulciana         CH
       Unison Off                 8' Octave           12
       Super                      8' Flute            12
                                  8' Cello            CH
       SOLO                       8' Dolce            CH
    8' Grand Diapason    73       4' Super Octave     12
    8' Major Flute       73      32' Contra Bombarde  32
    8' Major Gamba       73      16' Bombarde         12
    8' Gamba Celeste     73      16' Tuba Profunda    SO
    8' Flute Ouverte     73      16' Fagotto          SW
   16' Tuba Profunda     73       8' Tuba Harmonic    SO
    8' Tuba Mirabilis    73       4' Tuba Clarion     SO
    8' Tuba Harmonic     73
    8' French Horn       73      16' Echo Bourdon     12 EC
    8' Orchestral Oboe   73
    4' Tuba Clarion      73
       Tremolo

    +  under separate expression in main Swell expression
    s  selective mixture

      [Received from Jeff Scofield May 13, 2014]

Websites

NYC Organ Project Web Site - Specification, photographs (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)