Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 3544 (1983)

First Congregational Church / First United Church of Oak Park
848 Lake Street
Oak Park, IL

Images

2021-11-07 - Sanctuary interior (Photograph by Ryan Thoryk/Ryan Thoryk)

2021-11-07 - Manuals and Builder's nameplate (Photograph by Ryan Thoryk/Ryan Thoryk)

2021-11-07 - Console (Photograph by Ryan Thoryk/Ryan Thoryk)

2019-10-20 - Sanctuary interior (Photograph by Ryan Thoryk/Ryan Thoryk)

2019-01-06 - Console (Photograph by Ryan Thoryk/Ryan Thoryk)

2019-01-06 - Left stop jamb (Photograph by Ryan Thoryk/Ryan Thoryk)

2019-01-06 - Right stop jamb (Photograph by Ryan Thoryk/Ryan Thoryk)

2018-12-24 - Facade and pipework (Photograph by Ryan Thoryk/Ryan Thoryk)

2015-02-22 - Chancel, Great Pipework, and Trompette en Chamade (Photograph by Michael Swope/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Movable Console
4 manuals
59 stops
73 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: Remote Pneumatic/Mechanical Capture
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2005-12-23 - Identified 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 E. M. Skinner Opus 274 (1917), previously rebuilt by Roderer. -Database Manager

2007-02-09 - Updated through online information from Martin Hill. -Database Manager

2009-09-30 - Updated by Trailon Johnson from information furnished by Casavant Frères, courtesy of Simon Couture. -Database Manager

2010-08-09 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Antiphonal division prepared-for; Skinner 32' stops retained -Database Manager

2017-02-24 - First Congregational and First Presbyterian churches merged in 1975 and became known as First United Church of Oak Park. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the factory specifications Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       Oak Park, Illinois
       First United Church of Oak Park

       Casavant   Op. 3544   1983   4/87

       Courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives
       St. Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada
       ______________________________________________________

       GRAND ORGUE                        RÉCIT
   16' Violon              61         16' Bourdon  (wood)      61
   16' Flûte à cheminée    12          8' Principal étroit     61
    8' Montre              61          8' Cor de nuit          61
    8' Flûte harmonique    61          8' Viole de gambe       61
    8' Flûte à cheminée    61          8' Voix célete       GG 54
    4' Prestant            61          4' Octave               61
    4' Flûte               61          4' Flûte octaviante     61
3 1/5' Grosse tierce       61          2' Octavin              61
    2' Doublette           61         II  Sesquialtera        122
  III  Cornet             183         VI  Plein jeu           366
II-IV  Grande fourniture  191         II  Cymbale             122
   VI  Fourniture         366         16' Basson               61
   16' Bombarde            61          8' Trompette            61
    8' Trompette           61          8' Hautbois             61
    4' Clairon             61          8' Voix humaine         61
                                       4' Clairon              61
       PÉDALE                             Tremblant
   32' Flûte               12 *
   16' Contrebasse         32             POSITIF (unenclosed)
   16' Soubasse            32         16' Quintaton            61
   16' Violon              GO          8' Montre               61
   16' Bourdon             RE          8' Bourdon (wood)       61
   16' Quintaton           PO          8' Flûte douce          61
    8' Octavebasse         32          8' Flûte céleste     tc 49
    8' Flûte bouchée       12          4' Prestant             61
    8' Cor de nuit         RE          4' Flûte à fuseau       61
    4' Octave              32      2 2/3' Nasard               61
    4' Flûte               32          2' Doublette            61
    2' Flûte               12          2' Quarte de nasard     61
  III  Grand Cornet        96      1 3/5' Tierce               61
   VI  Mixture            192      1 1/3' Larigot              61
   32' Contre bombarde F/L 12 *       II  Fourniture          122
   16' Bombarde            32         IV  Cymbale             244
   16' Bombarde            GO         16' Douçaine             61
   16' Basson              RE          8' Trompette            61
   16' Douçaine            PO          8' Cromorne             61
    8' Trompette           32          4' Chalumeau            61
    8' Douçaine            PO             Tremblant
    4' Clairon             32
    4' Douçaine            PO             SOLO-ANTIPHONAL
                                       8' Trompette-en-Chamade 61
    *  from existing E M Skinner          8 blank Antiphonal knobs
                                          2 blank Ant Pédale knobs

   [Received online from Jeff Scofield  August 8, 2010]

Documents

(1983-01-01) Dedication brochure, via Jeff Scofield -Jeff Scofield