Better Pipe Organ Database

Roy A. Redman (Organ Co.) Opus 76 (1997)

First Presbyterian Church
8001 Mesa Drive
Austin, TX

Images

2023-08-30 - Keydesk (Photograph by Chris Gugleta/Chris Gugleta)

2023-08-30 - Pipe display (Photograph by Chris Gugleta/Chris Gugleta)

2023-08-24 - Right stopjamb (Photograph by Chris Gugleta/Chris Gugleta)

2023-08-24 - Left stopjamb (Photograph by Chris Gugleta/Chris Gugleta)

2015-12-01 - Pipe Display and Console (Photograph by David C. Schroth, Jr./Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
32 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
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 (Details Unknown)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Computerized/Digital
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - The original builder was M. P. Möller (1900, Opus 263). -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Rebuit by Hofmann in the 1950s. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Later placed in storage, then installed in the present building in 1978 by Rubin Frels. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist copied from detailed organ photos

GREAT Gedeckt 16, Prestant 8, Rohr Flote 8, Dulciana 8, Octave 4, Holz Gedeckt 4, Quinte 2⅔, Principal 2, Mixture IV, Cromorne 8, blank, Cymbelstern, blank

SWELL (Expressive) Gedeckt 8, Spitz Gamba 8, Celeste 8, Principal 4, Rohr Flote 4, Nasat 2⅔, Spitz Flote 2, Terz 1⅗, Quinte 1⅓, Octave 1, Trompette 8, Tremolo, blank, blank

PEDAL Prestant 16, Subbass 16, Singend Gedeckt 16, Quint Bass 10⅔, Octave 8, Bourdon 8, Choral Bass 4, Mixture III, Fagott 16, Schalmei 4, blank

COUPLERS Swell to Pedal, Great to Pedal, , Swell to Great

FINGER PISTONS General (1 - 10), Swell (1 - 6), Sw/Pd (rev), Sw/Gt (rev), Great (1 - 6), Gt/Pd (rev), Sforz (rev), Set, Cancel

TOE STUDS General (1 - 10), Pedal (1 - 4), Gt/Pd (rev), Sw/Pd (rev), Sw/Gt (rev), Sforz (rev)

PEDAL MOVEMENTS Swell Expression (bal.), Crescendo (bal.)

Websites

First Presbyterian Church of Austin, Texas: History of the Organ - Narrative history through 2002, with all forms of the stoplist through 2002. (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

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