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Ernest M. Skinner Company Opus 289 (1919)

First Presbyterian Church
325 Elm Street
Idaho Falls, ID

Images

2015-03-13 - Under-side of the Swell chest showing Pedal duplex actions (Photograph by Halden Toy, organist, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2015-03-13 - Great, leather-lipped, 8' Open Diapason (Photograph by Halden Toy, organist, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2015-03-13 - Organ case and facade (Photograph by Halden Toy, organist, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
2 manuals
13 stops
20 registers
3 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: Remote Pneumatic/Mechanical Capture
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti 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: Dedicated in 1920; additions in 1946 and 1948; rebuilt by Balcom & Vaughan, #853 with new console in 1982; solid-state combination action; now 2/26. -Database Manager

2014-11-22 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

2015-03-13 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist reconstructed from extant Skinner chests & pipes; and notes in Balcom and Vaughan files Date not recorded

Idaho Falls, Idaho
First Presbyterian Church

The Ernest M. Skinner Co.   Opus 289   1919 - Originl Specifications
___________________________________________________________________________

GREAT                                        COUPLERS
8   Diapason                     61          Swell to Pedal                [8],4
8   Melodia                      73          Great to Pedal                [8]
8   Gedeckt                (Sw)  --
8   Salicional             (Sw)  --          Swell to Great             16,[8],4
4   Flute                  (Sw)  --
8   Flugel Horn            (Sw)  --
                                             FINGER PISTONS
Great to Great 4'                            Swell                         1 - 4
                                             Great                         1 - 3
                                             [Set]       [unlabeled]
SWELL (Expressive)                           Cancel
16  Bourdon                      73
8   Diapason                     73
8   Gedeckt                      73          TOE STUDS
8   Salicional                   73          Pedal                         1 - 3
8   Voix Celeste                 73
8   Spitz Flute                  73
8   Flute Celeste                73          FOOT LEVERS
4   Flute                        73          Gr. to Ped.                   (rev)
8   Flugel Horn                  73          Sforz.                        (rev)
8   Vox Humana                   73
    Tremolo
                                             PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell to Swell 16'                           Swell Expression             (bal.)
Swell to Swell 4'                            Crescendo                    (bal.)


PEDAL                                        ACTION: E-P pitman
16  Bourdon                      32
16  Echo Bourdon           (Sw)  --          VOICES: 13         STOPS: 20
8   Gedeckt                      12
8   Still Gedeckt          (Sw)  --          RANKS: 13          PIPES: 908



NOTES
The organ is installed in a chamber at the front of this Akron plan sanctuary.
The center façade contain 29 pipes including notes 1-12 of the Great 8' Diapason.
The left-side façade which faces the choir gallery contains __ pipes which are
all dummies. The console was placed adjacent to the choir loft facade for access
to air from the chamber. In 1946, memorial chimes were added. In 1949, a memorial
non-enclosed 8' Aeoline was added. In 1982, the organ as modernized and enlarged
by Balcom and Vaughan of Seattle. The original Great 8' Melodia and Swell 8' Vox
Humana were displaced in this work, but are stored within the chamber.


Sources: Skinner opus list; Balcom and Vaughan opus list; memorial plaques;
         extant, altred organ.


First Presbyterian Church
325 Elm St.
Idaho Falls, Idaho

[Submitted by James R. Stettner; 2021-04-02]

Websites

Opus 289: First Presbyterian Church - (Aeolian-Skinner Archives Website) Stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

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#22362 - Balcom and Vaughan Opus 853RB (1982)