Better Pipe Organ Database

Austin Organ Co. Opus 1507 (1927)

Bowdoin College: Chapel
14 Campus Road N
Brunswick, ME

OHS convention: 1992

Images

2012-09-02 - Chapel Interior (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)

2012-09-02 - Pipe facade (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)

2012-09-02 - Chapel Exterior (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)

2017-07-14 - Organ Case and Facade Pipes (Photograph by Harold Stover/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Movable Console
3 manuals
37 stops
44 registers
4 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 combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1992 -Database Manager

2005-09-09 - On-line update from Ray Cornils -- Austin Organ Company, cleaned, restored and slightly modified this organ in the late 1990s. The Swell mixture was repitched, an 8' Salicional, 4'Octave and 2'Principal (part of the newly re-pitched III Mixture) replaced a couple of ranks in the Swell. Tonal finishing work was done by Bon Smith of Austin Organ Service. -Database Manager

2010-02-15 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from 1992 <i>OHS Convention Handbook</i> Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       Brunswick, Maine
       Bowdoin College - The Chapel

       Austin   Op. 1507   1927   3/38

       GREAT (*encl w/CH)                 SWELL
   16' Bourdon 61                     16' Lieblich Gedeckt 73
    8' First Diapason 61               8' Open Diapason 73
    8' Second Diapason 61 *            8' Stopped Flute 73
    8' Gross Flute 61 *                8' Viole d'Orchestre 73
    8' Violoncello 61 *                8' Viole Celeste 73
    4' Octave 61                       8' Muted Viole 73
    4' Wald Flute 61 *                 4' Gemshorn 73
2 2/3' Twelfth 61                      4' Harmonic Flute 73
    2' Super Octave 61                 2' Flageolet 61
    8' Harmonic Tuba 61 *             II  Mixture III 122 *
       Sub                            16' Contra Fagotto 73
       Super                           8' Trumpet 73
       Chimes f                        8' Oboe 73
       Chimes p                        8' Vox Humana 73
                                          Tremolo
       PEDAL                              Sub
   32' Resultant Bass --                  Super
   16' Open Diapason 32
   16' Bourdon 32                         CHOIR
   16' Violone 12 GT                   8' Geigen Principal 73
   16' Lieblich Gedeckt SW             8' Concert Flute 73
    8' Gross Flute 12 (Open Dia)       8' Flute Celeste 61 tc
    8' Violoncello GT                  8' Dulciana 73
    8' Flauto Dolce 12 (Bourdon)       8' Unda Maris 73
   16' Tuba Profunda 32                4' Chimney Flute 73
   16' Fagotto SW                      2' Piccolo 61
    8' Tuba 12                         8' Clarinet 73
                                       8' Cor Anglais 73
    *  Though labeled III, it             Tremolo
       actually only has 122              Sub
       pipes, 12-17                       Super
                                          Celestial Harp

[Received on line from Jeff Scofield February 15, 2010.]

Documents

(1927-02-10) Cyrus H. K. Curtis Will Give $30,000 Organ to Bowdoin Hartford Courant article on the Cyrus Curtis gift of an organ for the Bowdoin College Chapel -Craig A. Otto