Better Pipe Organ Database

Jeffery L. Weiler & Associates (2007)

First Church of Christ, Scientist / Music Institute of Chicago: Nichols Concert Hall
1490 Chicago Avenue
Evanston, IL

OHS convention: 2012

Images

2011-05-15 - Building Exterior (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2011-05-15 - Auditorium Interior and Chamber Grillework (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2011-05-15 - Console (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2011-05-15 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2011-05-15 - Left Stop Jamb (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2011-05-15 - Right Stop Jamb (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Movable Console
3 manuals
25 stops
33 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
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 (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2012-02-15 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Building formerly the First Church of Christ, Scientist; sold to the Music Institute of Chicago in 2001. -Database Manager

2013-11-15 - Updated through online information from Jeff Weiler. -- The organ was restored by JL Weiler, Inc. of Chicago. The console is original and has not been restored. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from <i>The Aeolian-Skinner Archives</i> website Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

    Evanston, Illinois
    Music Institute of Chicago

    Skinner   Op. 208  1914   3/22
    _____________________________________________

           GREAT                     SWELL
16'        Bourdon       17 PD   16' Bourdon          73
 8'        Diapason      61       8' Diapason         73
 8'        Philomela     PD       8' Gedackt          73
 8'        Erzähler      61       8' Salicional       73
 8'        Dulciana      61       8' Voix Celestes    73
 8'        Gedackt       SW       8' Aeoline          73
 4'        Octave        61       8' Unda Maris       61
 4'        Flute         SW       8' Unda Maris       61
 2 2/3'    Twelfth                4' Octave           73
 2'        Fifteenth              4' Flute            73
 8' Cornopean     SW              2' Flautino         61
                                 16' Posaune          73
           PEDAL                  8' Cornopean        73
16'        Diapason      32       8' Flugel Horn      73       
16'        1st Bourdon   32       8' Vox Humana       73
16'        2nd Bourdon   SW       
 8'        Octave        12          CHOIR
 8'        Still Gedeckt SW       8' Geigen Principal 73
16'        Posaune       SW       8' Concert Flute    73          
                                  4' Flute            73
                                  8' Clarinet         73
                           
Three stops on the Great (4' octave, 2 2/3' Twelfth, 2' Fifteenth) were added after the
organ was completed, possible by La Marche of Chicago. They were originally operated by
tilting tablets above the Swell manual, but are now on stop knobs on the right jamb as
part of the console re-working by Jeff Weiler and Associates.

[Received online from Jeff Scofield February 14, 2012]

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#22141 - Ernest M. Skinner Company Opus 208 (1914)