Better Pipe Organ Database

Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. Opus 1158 (1948)

First Presbyterian Church / Alhambra True Light Presbyterian Church
Alhambra, CA

Images

2023 - Chancel (Website/Jim Lewis)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
2 manuals
15 stops
20 registers
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Setterboard
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2005-09-25 - On-line update from Peter Bates -- Organ has angled wooden boards in front of the chambers that direct the sound into a heavy red velvet drape in the front of the sanctuary -Database Manager

2008-05-21 - Updated through information adapted from E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: Replaced 1915 two manual Austin, #634; extant; unaltered. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist Source: from Allen Kinzey Date not recorded

Alhambra, California
First Presbyterian Church

Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co., Inc.   Opus 1158   1948
2 manuals, 20 registers, 15 stops, 17 ranks
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               GREAT ORGAN
            8' Principal              61
            8' Bourdon                61
            8' Aeoline (Sw)           --
            4' Octave                 61
            4' Flute Harmonique       61
               Plein Jeu III         183
               Chimes
 
               SWELL ORGAN
            8' Stopped Diapason       68
            8' Viola Pomposa          68
            8' Viola Celeste          68
            8' Aeoline                68
            4' Spitzflöte             68
        2 2/3' Rohr Nasat             61
            2' Octavin                61
            8' Trompette              68
            4' Hautbois               68
               Tremulant
 
               PEDAL ORGAN
           16' Bourdon (ext Gt)       12
           16' Contra Viola (ext Sw)  12
            8' Principal              44
            8' Bourdon (Gt)           --
            4' Choralbass (fr. Prin)  --


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2018-08-03]

Websites

Opus 1158: First Presbyterian Church - (Aeolian-Skinner Archives website) Stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)