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Austin Organs, Inc. Opus 2401A (1978)

Vestavia Hills United Methodist Church
2061 Kentucky Avenue
Vestavia Hills (Birmingham), AL

Images

2006-11-06 - Console (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

2006-11-06 - Sanctuary Interior, Chancel, and Chamber Grillework (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

2006-11-06 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
3 manuals
40 stops
51 registers
5 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: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2007-05-27 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Addition of an Antiphonal Division of 7 registers, 7 speaking stops, 9 ranks, and 537. A Vox Humana was still prepared-for in the Antiphonal when I saw this organ in February, 1988. -Database Manager

2013-06-27 - Updated through online information from Quint Harris. -- In 2006 new bellows leather was installed. Repairs are currently underway to releather the entire organ (2013). Swell division was complete on June 7, 2013 -Database Manager

2017-12-04 - New 3-manual drawknob Austin console added ca. 2014. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from <i>The Diapason</i> May 1963 and visit April 1989 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       Birmingham (Vestavia Hills), Alabama
       Vestavia Hills United Methodist Church

       Austin   Op. 2401A   1963/1977    3/49  
       ___________________________________________________ 

       GREAT                            SWELL
   16' Quintaton        61           8' Hohlflote       68
    8' Principal        61           8' Viola           68
    8' Bourdon          61           8' Voix Celeste    61
    8' Gemshorn         61           4' Spitz Principal 68
    4' Octave           61           4' Rohrflote       68
    4' Spitzflote       61           2' Flautino        61
    2' Super Octave     61         III  Plein Jeu      183
   IV  Fourniture      244          16' Fagotto         68
       Sub                           8' Trompette       68
       Unison Off                    8' Fagotto         12
       Super                         4' Clairon         68
       Chimes                           Tremolo
       Tower Chimes                     Sub
                                        Unison Off
       CHOIR                            Super
    8' Nason Flute      68
    8' Dolce            68              PEDAL
    8' Dolce Celeste    56          16' Principal       32
    4' Prestant         68          16' Bourdon         32
    4' Koppelflote      68          16' Quintaton       GT
    2' Oktav            61          16' Gedeckt         12 SW
1 1/3' Larigot          61           8' Octave          32
   II  Sesquialtera    122           8' Gemshorn        GT
    8' Krummhorn        68           8' Gedeckt         SW
       Tremolo                       4' Choralbass      32
       Sub                          II  Mixture         64
       Unison Off                   16' Bombarde        32
       Super                        16' Fagotto         SW
    8' Bombarde         36 PD        8' Bombade         12
                                     4' Krummhorn       CH
       ANTIPHONAL (enclosed)
    8' Holzgedackt      61              ANTIPHONAL PEDAL
    8' Erzahler         61          16' Holzgedackt     12 AN
    8' Erzahler Celeste 49           8' Holzgedackt     AN
    4' Principal        61
    2' Waldflote        61
  III  Mixure          183
    8' Trumpet          61
    8' Vox Humana       pf
       Tremulant

      [Received online from Jeff Scofield November 8, 2012]

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