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Skinner Organ Co. Opus 810 (1929)

First Unitarian Church: Sanctuary
5650 S. Woodlawn Avenue
Chicago, IL

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Unknown - Sanctuary interior (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)

Unknown - Sanctuary interior to rear (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)

Unknown - Unknown (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)

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Notes

2006-05-15 - 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> Existing Chapel organ included in contract; extant; altered.</i> -Database Manager

2018-04-24 - Updated by Jeff Hamrick, who has heard or played the organ. -Database Manager


Stoplist

Typed stoplist Source: From Allen Kinzey Date not recorded

Chicago, Illinois
First Unitarian Church

Skinner Organ Company   Opus 810   1929       3 manuals, 29 stops, 33 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN                            SWELL ORGAN
     16' Bourdon             61              8' Open Diapason       73
      8' First Diapason      61              8' Rohr Flute          73
      8' Second Diapason     61              8' Salicional          73
      4' Octave              61              8' Voix Celeste (TC)   73
      4' Flute               61              8' Flute Celeste II   134
     II  Grave Mixture      122              4' Octave              73
      8' Trumpet    (in CH)  61              4' Flute Triangulaire  73
                                           III  Mixture            183
         CHOIR ORGAN                        16' Waldhorn            73
      8' Geigen              73              8' Cornopean           73
      8' Concert Flute       73              8' Oboe                73
      8' Gemshorn            73              4' Clarion             73
      4' Flute               73                 Tremolo
  2 2/3' Nazard              61
      2' Piccolo             61                 PEDAL ORGAN
  1 3/5' Tierce              61             16' Contra Bass         32
      8' Clarinet            73             16' Bourdon             32
         Tremolo                            16' Echo Lieblich       SW
                                             8' Octave              12
                                             8' Gedeckt             12
                                             4' Flute               12
                                            16' Waldhorn            SW


Playable from the new console is the old organ located in the chapel:
 
         CHAPEL GREAT ORGAN                     CHAPEL SWELL ORGAN
      8' Open Diapason                       8' Violin Diapason
      8' Melodia                             8' Stopped Diapason
      8' Dulciana                            8' Salicional
      4' Octave                              4' Flute Harmonique
                                                Tremolo
         CHAPEL PEDAL ORGAN
     16' Bourdon


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2017-03-01]


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