First Presbyterian Church
1427 Chicago Avenue
Evanston, IL
OHS convention: 2012
Images
2006-07-09 - Church exterior (Photograph by Ken Stein, photographybystein.com, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2006-07-09 - Façade pipes (Photograph by Ken Stein, photographybystein.com, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2006-07-09 - Console (Photograph by Ken Stein, photographybystein.com, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2006-07-09 - Console (Photograph by Ken Stein, photographybystein.com, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2006-07-09 - Church interior (Photograph by Ken Stein, photographybystein.com, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
Unknown - Church exterior (Photograph by Allix Rogers, via openhousechicago.org, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
Unknown - Chancel, organ and façade pipes (Photograph by Allix Rogers, via openhousechicago.org, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
Unknown - Church interior and window (Photograph by Allix Rogers, via openhousechicago.org, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
Unknown - Chancel, Pipe Facade, and Console ((1958) Photograph from the Dedication Program; image courtesy of James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
1983-08-01 - Pipe façade as it looked at time of installation (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
1983-08-01 - Console (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
1983-08-01 - Console (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Movable Console
- 3 manuals
- 45 stops
- 59 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)
- Has crescendo
- Combination action: Computerized/Digital
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2005-12-05 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- While considered a "new organ," this instrument retained many sets from the preceding Holtkamp organ - including sets from the 1895 Johnson and Son organ which was rebuilt by Holtkamp. A Casavant Trompette-en-Chamade was added in 1978, but it has been since removed. Tonal changes were made to the organ ca. 1985. -Database Manager
2007-02-09 - Updated through online information from Martin Hill. -- Tonal changes from original include: -Extension of Pedal reed to play on Great -Extension of Swell 16' Oboe to 32' pitch -Previously mentioned Casavant chamade replaced by a Schopp hooded trumpet In 2001 the console was made moveable. The 32' Oboe pipes have collapsed; A digital 32' Bombarde replaces them; Very mild digital sound suppliments the 16' Principal and 32' Bourdon. -Database Manager
2008-06-28 - Updated through information adapted from <i>E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List</i>, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: <br><i>Used pipework from existing 1940 Holtkamp, #1609 rebuild of 1895 Johnson & Son, #823; dedication recital played by Virgil Fox on October 19, 1958.</i> -Database Manager
Stoplist
Stoplist from <i>The Aeolian-Skinner Archives</i> Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Evanston, Illinois
First Presbyterian Church
Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co., Inc. Opus 1321 1955 3 manuals, 45 stops, 56 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN SWELL ORGAN
16' Quintaton 61 16' Gedackt 68
8' Principal 61 8' Geigen 68
8' Gedackt 61 8' Bordun 12
8' Gemshorn 61 8' Viole de Gambe 68
4' Octave 61 8' Viole Celeste 68
4' Flute Harmonique 61 8' Flute Celeste II 124
2 2/3' Twelfth 61 4' Principal 68
2' Super Octave 61 4' Flauto Traverso 68
IV Fourniture 244 2' Fifteenth 61
III Scharf 183 III Plein Jeu 183
8' Bombarde (in CH) 61 16' Hautbois 68
Chimes (in SW) 21 tubes 8' Trumpet 68
8' Hautbois 12
CHOIR ORGAN 4' Clarion 68
8' Viola Pomposa 61 Tremulant
8' Viola Celeste 61
8' Rohrflöte 61 PEDAL ORGAN
8' Aeoline 61 32' Bourdon 32
8' Aeoline Celeste (TC) 49 16' Principal 32
4' Prestant 61 16' Bourdon 12
4' Koppelflöte 61 16' Violone 32
2 2/3' Nazard 61 16' Quintaton GT
2' Blockflöte 61 16' Gedackt SW
1 3/5' Tierce 61 8' Principal 32
1 1/3' Larigot 61 8' Bourdon 12
III Zimbel 183 8' Violoncello 12
8' Clarinet 61 8' Quintaton GT
Tremulant 4' Choralbass 32
8' Bombarde GT 4' Flute 32
2' Blockflöte 32
II Rauschquinte 64
16' Bombarde 32
16' Hautbois SW
8' Trumpet 12
8' Hautbois SW
4' Clarion 12
4' Hautbois SW
Chimes GT
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2014-07-06]
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