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Newton Pipe Organ Services (1985)

First Unitarian Church: Sanctuary; front
1535 Santa Barbara St.
Santa Barbara, CA

Images

ca. 2022 - Chancel with nave-side facade (Photograph from an archival source: wedding-spot.com / cvent, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2011-10-20 - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main - 1985

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
3 manuals
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: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons

Notes

2006-05-16 - 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: Rebuild and enlargement of Skinner Opus 838 (1930), previously altered by Abbott & Sieker. rebuilt and enlarged by Robert Newton in 1985; now 3/32. -Database Manager

2022-09-03 - Updated through online information from Mark Caldwell. -Mark Caldwell

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist taken from church records Date not recorded

Santa Barbara, California
First Uniterian Church

Skinner Organ Co., Opus 838, 1930
Abbott & Sieker, 1961 - Tonal changes
Schantz, 1985 - New console
Newton, 1985 - Tonal changes


       GREAT
16’    Quintadena
8’     Open Diapason
8’     Quintadena
8’     Harmonic Flute
4’     Octave
2’     Superoctave
IV     Fourniture  1-1/3’
8’     Tuba
8’     Krummhorn
       Chimes


       SWELL (Expressive)
8’     Geigen Principal
8’     Rohrflote
8’     Salicional
8’     Voix Celeste
8’     Flute Celeste II
4’     Koppelflote
2’     Fifteenth 
III    Plein Jeu  1'
8’     Trumpet
4’     English Horn
       Tremolo


       CHOIR (Expressive)
8’     Harmonic Flute
8’     Dulciana
8’     Unda Maris
4’     Violina
2’     Blockflote
1-1/3’ Larigot
8’     Krummhorn
8’     Tuba 
       Tremolo


       PEDAL
32’    Untersatz
16’    Subbass
16’    Qunitadena 
16’    Contra Dulciana 
8’     Principal
8’     Gedackt
4’     Choral Bass
4’     Gedackt
16’    Fagotto
4’     Tuba Clarion


[Received from Michael Williamson 2015-08-29.]

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