2007-11-14 - Identified through online information from Stephen Hall. -- New organ containing vintage pipes from two other instruments. Organ supplements larger original 1929 Austin organ in the rear gallery, provides music for smaller services where the congregation is gathered near the chancel. Both organs are in regular use for services (2007). -Database Manager
2008-09-29 - Updated through information in <i>The Windline</i> (Austin publication), Summer 2008: "The existing organ was installed when the church was built, back in the 1920's, when organs were completed almost as easily as ordering a new kitchen sink. ... Pipework for this organ combined new with old: Some existing ranks from Austin 1747, (an early demonstration organ, transplanted to a residence, then a church,) along with some pipes from an older M.P. Moller organ that the church obtained several years ago, and a clarinet & oboe from a Midmer Losh, removed from a church in New York combined with some new pipework, built and voiced in the re-organized Austin pipe-ship: a new Nazard, Principal, Diapason, to name a few." -Database Manager
2020-07-17 - Please change the places where this organ is listed as 11 ranks to 12 ranks. I checked it carefully, and it is really 12 ranks plus extensions. Perhaps the pedal Open Diapason was omitted before, but the pedal unit of Open Diapason 8 and 4 is a separate rank from the Great Open Diapason. -William L Degan
Source: Taken from console. June 23, 2020
Bristol, Connecticut
St. Joseph's R.C. Church
Austin Organs, Inc., Opus 2790, 2007 - CHANCEL ORGAN
GREAT COUPLERS
16 Bourdon (Ch Fl) 12 Uses the gallery couplers. See
8 Diapason 61 'Notes' below.
8 Viol de Gambe 61
8 Chimney Flute 61
8 Viola Celeste II (Sw) -- FINGER PISTONS
4 Principal 61 General 1 - 12
4 Flute (Ch Fl) 12 Swell 1 - 6
2 Fifteenth (Prin) 12 Great 1 - 6
8 Clarinet 61
Chimes (A 22 – F 42) (21)
TOE STUDS
Pedal 1 - 6
SWELL (Expressive) Sw to Ped (rev)
8 Concert Flute 61 Gt to Ped (rev)
8 Salicional 61 Tutti (rev)
8 Voix Celeste 61
4 Harmonic Flute (C.F.) 12
2 2/3 Nazard 61 PEDAL MOVEMENTS
2 Flautino (C.F.; 49n) -- Swell Expression (bal.)
8 Oboe 61 Crescendo (bal.)
8 Vox Humana 61
Tremolo
PEDAL
32 Resultant (from Subbass --
and Bourdon quint)
16 Subbass (GT) 12
16 Bourdon (Sw. C.F.) 12
8 Principal 32
8 Bass Flute (GT Ch Fl) --
8 Gedeckt (SW C.F.) --
4 Octave (Prin) 12
4 Rohrflute (Gt) --
16 Contra Clarinet (Gt) 12
8 Oboe (Sw) --
8 Clarinet (Gt) --
4 Oboe (Sw) --
NOTES
The couplers from the gallery organ row of stops are used, BUT the Gt/Gt 16, Gt U
Off, and Gt/Gt 4 are not wired for the chancel organ. The three Sw/Gt couplers do
work. All three swell couplers in the gallery row work.
Swell pedals on both consoles operate both swell boxes together. Default is closed
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