Municipal Auditorium
100 Auditorium Circle
San Antonio, TX
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
Images
Unknown - Auditorium exterior (Photograph from an archival source: SAH Archipedia, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
1979 - Auditorium interior immediately after the fire (Photograph by Steve Campbell, San Antonio Express-News, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
Unknown - Auditorium stage and organ chambers before the fire (Photograph from an archival source: UTSA Digital Collections, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
1942-10-31 - Auditorium interior, Echo chamber on rear wall (Photograph by San Antonio Express-News, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
1950-01-01 - Console (Moller promotional photo in the private collection of Jim Lewis/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
- 4 manuals
- 117 stops
- 72 registers
- 7 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 thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2009-10-31 - Identified through information in <i>List of More than 5200 Moller Pipe Organs</i> (Hagerstown, Maryland. M. P. Möller, 1928). -Database Manager
2009-11-14 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Spacious organ chambers to each side of the stage front, with fairly open grillework; organ and 5,000-seat auditorium gutted by fire in 1979; the auditorium was restored and reopened in 1985 with the organ grilles still in place. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Stoplist copied from <i>The American Organist</i> Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
San Antonio, Texas
Municipal Auditorium
Möller Op. 4505 1927 4/73
GREAT SWELL
16' Double Open Diapason 61 16' Bourdon 73
8' First Open Diapason 61 8' Open Diapason 73
8' Second Open Diapason 12 8' Stopped Diapason 73
8' Third Open Diapason 73 8' Flute Harmonic 73
8' Doppelflöte 73 8' Viole d'Orchestre 73
8' Hohlflöte 73 8' Viole Celeste 61 tc
8' Violoncello 73 8' Salicional 73
8' Gemshorn 73 8' Salicional Celeste 61 tc
4' Octave 73 8' Violin 73
4' Flute Harmonic 73 8' Violin Celeste 61 tc
4' Gemshorn 12 4' Principal 73
2 2/3' Twelfth 61 4' Rohrflöte 73
2' Fifteenth 61 4' Salicet 12
1 3/5' Seventeenth 61 * 4' Flute Harmonic 12
1 1/3' Nineteenth 61 * 2 2/3' Nazard 61 *
1' Twenty-Second 61 * 2 2/3' Flute Twelfth 7
III Mixture (draws *) 2' Super Octave 61 *
16' Double Trombone 61 2' Flautina 5
8' Tromba 12 1 3/5' Tierce 61 *
4' Clarion 12 1 1/3' Larigot 61 *
Tremolo IV Dolce Cornet (draws *)
Sub 16' Contra Fagotto 73
Unison Off 8' French Trumpet 73
Super 8' Cornopean 73
Marimba 8' Oboe 73
Orchestral Bells 8' Vox Humana 73
Tremolo
SOLO Sub
8' Stentorphone 61 Unison Off
8' Grossflöte 61 Super
8' Gross Gamba 61 Xylophone
8' Gross Gamba Celeste 61
8' Solo Violin 61 CHOIR
4' Hohlpfeife 61 16' Contra Viole 73
16' Tuba 61 8' Open Diapason 73
8' Tuba Mirabilis 12 8' Concert Flute 73
8' French Horn 61 8' Viole d'Gamba 73
8' English Horn 61 8' Quintadena 73
8' Orchestral Oboe 61 8' Viole 73
4' Clarion 12 8' Violin 73
Tremulant 8' Dulciana 73
Sub 8' Unda Maris 61 tc
Unison Off 4' Flute d'Amour 73
Super 4' Concert Flute 12
4' Violine 12
PEDAL 3 1/5/ Dulciana Tenth 61 *
32' Resultant -- 2 2/3' String Twelfth 7
16' First Open Diapason 32 2 2/3' Dulciana Twelfth 61 *
16' Second Open Diapason GT 2' Harmonic Piccolo 61
16' Bourdon 32 2' String Fifteenth 5
16' Violone 32 1 3/5' Dulciana Seventeenth 61 *
16' Major Flute 32 1 1/3' Dulciana Nineteenth 61 *
16' Lieblich Gedeckt SW 1' Dulciana Twenty-Second 61 *
16' Contra Viole CH V Dulciana Mixture (draws *)
10 2/3' Quinte 7 8' Basset Horn 73
8' Octave 12 8' Clarinet 73
8' Flute Major 5 4' Octave Horn 12
8' Violoncello 12 Tremulant
8' Flute Dolce SW 8' Harp tc
4' Hohlpfeife SO 4' Harp 61
32' Contra Bombarde 32 Sub
16' Bombarde 12 Unison Off
16' Trombone GT Super
16' Tuba SO
16' Contra Fagotto SW ECHO
8' Trombone GT 8' Echo Diapason 73
8' Tuba SO 8' Echo Flute 73
4' Clarion SO 8' Muted Violes II 134
8' Night Horn 73
ECHO PEDAL 4' Waldflöte 73
16' Echo Bourdon 32 4' Muted Violes --
8' Echo Flute 12 8' Vox Humana 73
Chimes EC Tremulant
Chimes 25
[Received on line from Jeff Scofield November 15, 2009.]
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