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Austin Organ Co. Opus 1853 (1935)

Beth Israel Temple
701 Farmington Avenue
West Hartford, CT

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Unknown - Console, 2012. (Photograph by Michael Petruzzi/Database Manager)

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Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 2000. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - "in a 1934 building. Earlier building had an 1870 Wm. Johnson, Op. 313, 2-22. Organ listed as failing in 2003 and funds were being raised for a restoration. The key failure results from expected deterioration of fine leather materials used in the construction of 622 small bellows that service the pipes" -Database Manager

2014-06-29 - Echo severely damaged by air-conditioning installers in 1975, disconnected and pipes removed by Austin; Chimes action replaced and Ramshorn releathered in 2002; work in 2003 by Austin Organ Service Co. included reactioning the main organ windchests, rebuilds of the large wind pressure regulator bellows and two expression engines, as well as miscellaneous repairs. -Database Manager


Stoplist

Stoplist copied from undocumented source Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       West Hartford, Connecticut
       Temple Beth Israel

       Austin   1935   Op. 1853   4/45
       __________________________________________________

       GREAT (*encl w/CH)             SWELL
   16' Open Diapason     73       16' Bourdon          73
    8' 1st Open Diapason 73        8' Open Diapason    73
    8' 2nd Open Diapason 73 *      8' Stopped Diapason 73
    8' Violoncello       73 *      8' Salicional       73
    8' Claribel Flute    73 *      8' Voix Celeste     61
    8' Gemshorn          73 *      8' Aeoline          73
    4' Octave            73        4' Octave           73
    4' Harmonic Flute    73 *      4' Orchestral Flute 73
2 2/3' Twelfth           61        2' Flautino         61
    2' Super Octave      61       16' Posaune          73
  III  Grave Mixture    183        8' Horn             73
    8' Trumpet           73 *      8' Oboe             73
       Sub                         4' Clarion          73
       Unison Off                     Tremolo
       Super                          Sub
       Chimes            25           Unison Off
                                      Super
       ECHO
    8' Gedeckt           73           CHOIR
    8' Muted Viole       73        8' Violin Diapason  73
    8' Vox Angelica      61        8' Viola da Gamba   73
    4' Chimney Flute     73        8' Concert Flute    73
    8' Vox Humana        61        8' Flute Celeste    61
       Sub                         8' Dulciana         73
       Unison Off                  8' Unda Maris       61
       Super                       4' Flute d'Amour    73
    8' Ramshorn G-G25    25        2' Piccolo          61
       Chimes ƒ                    8' Clarinet         73
       Chimes p                    8' Corno d'Amour    73
                                      Tremolo
       PEDAL                          Sub
   32' Resultant         --           Unison Off
   16' Open Diapason     32           Super
   16' 2nd Open Diapason GT        8' Harp             61
   16' Bourdon           32        4' Harp Celesta     --
   16' Violone           12 GT
   16' Lieblich Gedeckt  SW        The organ also has a
    8' Octave            12        Shofar stop, but the
    8' Major Flute       12        stoplist available did
    8' Violoncello       GT        not say on which manual
    8' Minor Flute       SW        it played.
   16' Trombone          12 SO
   16' Posaune           SW
    8' Trumpet           GT

      [Received from Jeff Scofield June 29, 2014]

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