2024-06-24 - Organ facade visible at front (Church Facebook/Paul R. Marchesano)
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1998 -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - "Was Horace Bushnell Congregational, later 4th Congregational. Last organ built in the Detroit, MI Clough-Warren shop before a fire. J. T. Austin moved to CT. [Moved into this building in 1913?]" -Database Manager
2009-03-24 - Updated through on-line information from Paul Marchesano. -Database Manager
2021-03-05 - "Austin Organ Company Opus 22 was built with John Turnell Austin's Universal Airchest System by the firm of Clough and Warren of Detroit, Michigan in 1898. The design of Opus 22 was a radical departure from the norm for any organ builder of that day as well as a major turning point for John Turnell Austin. It was this installation that landed John T. Austin to Hartford. This organ featured several Austin firsts: The use of two wind pressures, adjustable combination pistons, three enclosed divisions, with three expression pedals, and a Sforzando pedal. In 1913, the organ was moved with the congregation to the present building. The organ has had some changes over the century. The Echo was not reconnected in 1913 at the time of the move. At one point, an unknown party replaced many of the original Choir ranks with ranks from the Echo division. Alterations notwithstanding, the organ retains most of its original character." -- From "A Centennial Celebration" program, celebrating the organ's centennial and presentation with OHS Historic Organ Citation No. 237, November 7, 1998. -Paul R. Marchesano
Usual full couplers Source: Centennial celebration program
GREAT ORGAN (61 notes, enclosed with CHOIR) Double Open Diapason 16, First Open Diapason 8, Second Open Diapason 8, Gross Flute 8, Octave 4, Octave Quinte 2 2/3, Super Octave 2, Mixture IV-V, Viola da Gamba 8, Gemshorn 8, Flute Harmonique 4, Trumpet 8, Clarion 4
SWELL ORGAN (61 notes, enclosed) Bourdon 16, Open Diapason 8, Flute Harmonique 8, Stopped Diapason 8, Viol d'Orchestre 8, Salicional 8, Vox Celestis 8 (TC), Flauto Traverso 4, Fugara 4, Flautino 2, Dolce Cornet III-V, Contra Fagotto 16, Cornopean 8, Oboe 8
CHOIR ORGAN (61 notes, enclosed) Contra Gamba 16, Geigen Principal 8, Concert Flute 8, Dolcissimo 8, Unda Maris 8 (TC), Quintadena 8, Spitzflöte 4, Violina 4, Dolce Celeste 4 (TC), Piccolo Harmonique 2, Clarinet 8, Regale 4
PEDAL ORGAN (32 notes) Bourdon 32, Open Diapason 16, Violone 16, Dulciana 16, Bourdon 16, Quint 10 2/3, Violoncello 8, Flote 8, Trombone 16, Fagotto 16, Tromba 8
Centennial Celebration Program, with history, photographs and stoplist Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
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Typed stoplist form the OHS PC Database Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Hartford, Connecticut Horace Bushnell Congregational (by 1998 Liberty Christian Center) 1898 Austin, Op. 22 (Stoplist: Stephen Roberts-1998 specification) GREAT ORGAN (Unenclosed) Double Open Diapason 16 First Open Diapason 8 Second Open Diapason 8 Gross Flute 8 Octave 4 Octave Quint 2-2/3 Super Octave 2 Mixture IV-V (Enclosed with Choir) Viola da Gamba 8 Gemshorn 8 Flute Harmonique 4 Trumpet 8 Clarion 4 SWELL ORGAN Bourdon 16 Open Diapason 8 Stopped Diapason 8 Viole d'Orchestre 8 Salicional 8 Vox Celestis 8 Flauto Traverso 4 Fugara 4 Flautino 2 Dolce Cornet III-V Contra Fagotto 16 Cornopean 8 Oboe 8 CHOIR ORGAN Contra Gamba 16 Geigen Principal 8 Concert Flute 8 Dolcissimo 8 Unda Maris 8 Quintadena 8 Spitzflo"te 4 Violina 4 Dolce Celeste 4 Piccolo Harmonique 2 Clarinet 8 Regal 4 PEDAL ORGAN Contra Bourdon 32 Open Diapason 16 Violone 16 Dulciana 16 Bourdon 16 Quint 10-2/3 Violoncello 8 Flote 8 (sic) Trombone 16 Fagotto 16 Tromba 8 The wind pressure of the unenclosed portion of the Great is 3 1/4"; the reeds are on higher pressure, something a little more than 5" All manual stops are 61 notes, and pedal stops are all straight, 32 note ranks. A few ranks in the Choir organ were in the original Echo organ of the 1898 installation. A few other ranks, notably the Oboe in the Swell, are later replacements. This instrument represents the full realization of John T. Austin's mechanical innovations in organ design, and it also contained some stops by the great European builders, Cavaillé-Coll (the Swell Oboe, now replaced, alas); Walcker (the Great Viola); and T.C. Lewis (the Echo Vox humana, now [1998] silent, along with the rest of the Echo division). In addition, most of the other flue voicing on the organ was done by the distinguished late 19th century voicer and organ builder, Philip Wirsching, as Dr. Ochse pointed out to us. The mechanism of the organ had been built to Austin's design by the firm of Clough and Warren in Detroit. This organ featured several Austin firsts: The use of two wind pressures, adjustable combination pistons, three enclosed divisions, with three expression pedals, and a Sforzando pedal." The organ always had electric action from the very beginning.
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