Unknown - Console schematic drawing (Photograph by W Leigh Fleury/W Leigh Fleury)
Unknown - Church Exterior (Vintage Postcard, courtesy of T. Bradford Willis, DDS (1909)/Database Manager)
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1996. -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - [Formerly Christ Church? This organ on the Austin list for First Presbyterian, Augusta, GA.!!] Rebuilt by Wicks 1989, 3-28. (1/90 for - new stop list.??) -Database Manager
2013-09-10 - Updated through online information from Keith Zimmerman. -- In mid 2013, the church purchased a new organ from Cornell Zimmer. Zimmer removed the 1927 Austin as part of the contract. -Database Manager
2013-10-09 - Updated through online information from Keith Zimmerman. -- Response from the Cornell Zimmer company to my inquiry: 28 ranks from this Austin were incorporated into the new organ. -Database Manager
2022-10-18 - Contract [see documents tab] lists Solo on and off Echo couplers, but no specification or expression shoe is listed for a Solo Organ. Contract date, 6 August 1926, organ promised by 20 December 1926. Cost: $15,750. Terms: $3250 upon installation and completion, balance to be divided into four equal payments, payable annually thereafter. -Paul R. Marchesano
Source: Taken from contract
Great Organ (61 notes) Open Diapason 8 (73 pipes, metal), Hohl Flute 8 (73 pipes, wood), Gamba 8 (73 pipes, metal), Gemshorn 8 (73 pipes, metal), Octavo 4 (73 pipes, metal), Harmonic Flute 4 (73 pipes, metal), French Horn 8 (73 pipes, reed)
Swell Organ (61 notes, enclosed) Lieblich Gedackt 16 (73 pipes, wood), Open Diapason 8 (73 pipes, metal), Rohr Flute 8 (73 pipes, wood), Viole d'Orchestre 8 (73 pipes, tin), Salicional 8 (73 pipes, metal), Flauto Traverso 4 (73 pipes, wood), Fern Flute 4 (73 pipes, metal [pencil line drawn through stop name on contract]), Cornopean 8 (73 pipes, reed), Oboe 8 (73 pipes, reed), Tremolo
Choir Organ (61 notes, enclosed) Geigen Principal 8 (73 pipes, metal), Melodia 8 (73 pipes, wood), Flute Celeste 8 (73 pipes, wood), Dulciana 8 (73 pipes, metal), Quintadena 8 (73 pipes, metal), Flute d'Amour 4 (73 pipes, wood), Piccolo 2 (61 pipes, metal), Harp (49 notes), Tremolo
Echo Organ (61 notes) Aetheria 8 (73 pipes), Unda Maria [sic] 8 (73 pipes), Vox Humana 8 (61 pipes), Chimney Flute 4 (73 pipes ["Chimney" crossed out, replaced with "Fern"]), Clarinet 8 (73 pipes, reed), Viole Celeste 8 (73 pipes), Deagan Chimes [Class A] (25 tubes), Tremolo
Pedal Organ (32 notes) Resultant 32 (32 notes, wood), Open Diapason 16 (32 pipes, wood), First Bourdon 16 (32 pipes, wood), Second Bourdon 16 (32 notes, wood), Cello 8 (32 notes, metal), Flute 8 (12 notes, 20 pipes, wood)
Couplers Great Sub, Unison, Octave, Swell to Great Sub, Unison, Octave, Choir to Great Sub, Unison, Octave, Swell Sub, Unison, Octave, Choir Sub, Unison, Octave, Swell to Choir Sub, Unison, Octave, Echo On, Echo Off, Solo to Echo Sub, Unison "Off", Octave, Echo "On" and Solo "Off", Solo and Echo "On", Solo "On" and Echo "Off", Swell to Pedal Unison, Octave, Great to Pedal Unison, Choir to Pedal Unison
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