First Methodist Church / Chicago Temple
77 W. Washington St.
Chicago, IL
Images
2006-07-06 - Sanctuary Interior, Chancel, and Chamber Grillework (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
2006-07-06 - Sanctuary Interior, Chancel, and Chamber Grillework (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
2006-07-06 - Chancel, Console, and Chamber Grillework (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
2006-07-06 - Chamber Grillework (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
2006-07-06 - Console (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
2006-07-06 - Console (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
2023-12-19 - 2008 replacement console (Daniel Boin/Daniel Boin)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
- 4 manuals
- 73 stops
- 93 registers
- 7 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 thumb pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
- Has tutti thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2006-01-17 - Identified 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> Rebuild of E. M. Skinner Opus 414 (1923). Further enlarged by Wicks in 1991.</i> -Database Manager
2010-12-15 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- In 1982, Wicks installed a new console and 47 new ranks of pipes; sustained serious water damage May 6, 1988, when an upstairs sink overflowed; Wicks renovated the organ and converted the chests to Direct Electric action, completing the work in May of 1990; in 2008, Karstens OrganWorks, Ltd., installed a new console. -Database Manager
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