Better Pipe Organ Database

Austin Organ Co. Opus 92 (1903)

St. Elizabeth Center: Christ the King Chapel
2835 W 32nd Avenue
Denver, CO

OHS convention: 1998

Images

1997-05-04 - Console and Organ Case (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
2 manuals
10 stops
11 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has hitchdown couplers

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1997 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Chapel formerly called Chapel of Our Merciful Saviour. Gt. 4' Gemshorn replaced by a stopped wood 4' flute as of 1998. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1998 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Originally Oakes Home (Episcopalian) for tuberculosis patients which closed in 1941. Sold in 1943 to RC order of nuns and operated as a home for the elderly. The chapel was originally known as Chapel of Our Merciful Savior, but was renamed when the property was transferred. Gt. 4' Gemshorn now replaced by a stopped wood 4' Flute. -Database Manager

2015-09-22 - Updated through online information from Gerald J Curcio. -- The organ is still in its original state including all the mechanisms associated with the Austin Universal Chest system. Many of the pneumatics no longer work because of the deteriorated leather. Much of the chest and console mechanism is out of adjustment to the extent that the instrument, until recently, has been unplayable. The Catholic Church has authorized restoration of the instrument to its original state. Currently, repairs have returned the organ to a playable condition with much remaining to be completed. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from The Tracker Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

   Denver, Colorado
   The Gardens at St. Elizabeth's
   Christ the King Chapel

   Austin   Op. 92   1902/1903   2/10
   ______________________________________________________________

   GREAT                   SWELL                       PEDAL
8' Open Diapason 61     8' Geigen Principal 61     16' Bourdon 30
8' Concert Flute 61     8' Gedecktflöte     61      8' Flute   12
8' Dulciana      61     8' Salicional       61
4' Gemshorn      61     4' Harmonic Flute   61
   Sub                  8' Flue Oboe        61
   Unison Off              Tremolo
   Super                   Sub
                           Unison Off
                           Super

          [Received online from Jeff Scofield March 26, 2014]