Augusta, Georgia
First Baptist Church 
1902-1975 sanctuary
802 Greene Street

Austin Organs Inc., Op. 1058
Date instrument was built is unknown

The story I recall as a young boy about the First Baptist Austin Organ 
Op. 1058 is that a deacon from First Baptist Church travelled to Hartford, 
Connecticut and purchased the organ from the Austin factory floor. Sure 
enough, if you research the Austin opus list, one finds that the organ 
was built for Austin Organs Inc., three manuals, 33 ranks. 

While it is unknown what year the organ was built, we know it had arrived 
in Augusta by 1937. It was dedicated for service in the First Baptist 
Church downtown Greene Street sanctuary on Sunday, March 21, 1937. I have 
in my possession a copy of the program. It was told to me as a teen that 
Virgil Fox was the organist for the dedication. However, no name is given 
in the program.

The 1902 sanctuary was closed in 1975 and the organ remained sitting in 
the sanctuary for a year or two until the sanctuary was sold. The organist 
of First Baptist Church at that time petitioned to take possession of the 
organ. The deacons sold the organ to the organist for one dollar and gave 
one week for its removal. Most of the organ was removed. Pipes were stored 
at the organist's house and sold a few years later to someone in Florida, 
if my memory is correct. The console was returned to First Baptist Church 
for use as an antiphonal organ console in the new West Augusta sanctuary 
on Walton Way, reconfigured for use by Schantz Organ Company of Orville, 
Ohio.

Here is the Opus 1058 stop list: 

Great
8 Open Diapason
8 Gross Flute
8 Concert Flute
8 Violin Cello
8 Dulciana
4 Harmonic Flute
8 Harmonic Trumpet
Chimes

Swell
16 Bourdon
 8 Viola
 8 Stopped Flute
 8 Viole Orchestra
 8 Viole Celeste
 8 Salicional
 4 Flute
 2 Harmonic Piccolo
 8 English Horn
 8 Vox Humaine
   Tremolo

Choir
8 Gross Flute (Gt)
8 Concert Flute (Gt)
8 Violin Cello (Gt)
8 Dulciana (Gt)
8 Unda Maris
4 Harmonic Flute (Gt)
8 Harmonic Trumpet (Gt)
8 Clarinet
  Chimes
  Harp
  Tremolo

Pedal
16 Open Diapason
16 First Bourdon
16 Second Bourdon
16 Violone
 8 Flute (Gt)
 8 Violin Cello

Echo (Great)
8 Open Diapason
8 Flauto Dolce
8 Dolce
4 Flauto Traverso

Echo (Choir)
8 Flauto Dolce
8 Dolce
8 Vox Angelica
8 Oboe Gamba
4 Flue D'Amour
  Tremolo

Echo (Pedal)
16 Echo Flute

Couplers in their respective divisions:

16 Great to Great
   Great Unison Off 
 4 Great to Great
16 Swell to Great
 8 Swell to Great
 4 Swell to Great
16 Choir to Great
 8 Choir to Great
 4 Choir to Great

16 Swell to Swell
   Swell Unison Off 
 4 Swell to Swell

16 Choir to Choir
   Choir Unison Off
 4 Choir to Choir
16 Swell to Choir
 8 Swell to Choir
 4 Swell to Choir

8 Pedal to Pedal 
8 Great to Pedal
4 Great to Pedal
8 Swell to Pedal
4 Swell to Pedal
8 Choir to Pedal

 [Received from Brad Cunningham 2013-06-25.]