Better Pipe Organ Database

Randy George (1985)

First Unitarian Church
3114 Harney St.
Omaha, NE

Images

1992-05-26 - Church exterior (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

1992-05-26 - Console (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

1992-05-26 - Church interior and console (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

1992-05-26 - Church interior to rear and organ chamber (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

1992-05-26 - Church interior to front (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
3 manuals
47 stops
51 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
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
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2007-03-12 - 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 Aeolian-Skinner Opus 962 (1937) after 1984 fire. Combination action replaced by solid-state. -Database Manager

2022-06-19 - The original 39 ranks of the Aeolian-Skinner were installed in the balcony under very unfavorable conditions. The balcony is 39'6" wide, but the opening into the nave is only 15'6" wide and 6'6" high. In addition, there was paneling in front of the organ which extended about three feet above the mouths of the pipes. The little Choir division was supported above the Great and Pedal. It was actually in the base of the steeple, around 7' above the ceiling of the nave and 11' above the balcony opening. The 1918 Austin console was reused. On June 26, 1984, the roof caught fire. Water from fighting the fire poured through the Swell division and the firefighters stomped on most of the pipes during containment - the division was ruined. The organ was removed, rebuilt, enlarged and reinstalled. -Jeff Scofield

Stoplist

Source: Taken from the console May 26, 1992

       Omaha, Nebraska
       First Unitarian Church

       Aeolian-Skinner   Op. 962   1937   3/39
       Randy George                1985   3/52
       _________________________________________

       GREAT                     CHOIR
   16' Gemshorn               8' Rohr Flute
    8' Principal              8' Dulciana
    8' Bourdon                8' Unda Maris
    8' Flute Harmnique        4' Gemshorn
    8' Gemshorn               4' Koppelflöte
    4' Octave             2 2/3' Nazard
    4' Nachthorn              2' Klein Principal
2 2/3' Twelfth                2' Hohlflöte
    2' Fifteenth          1 3/5' Tierce
   IV  Fourniture           III  Mixture
       Sub                    8' Krummhorn
       Unison Off             4' Rohrschalmei
       Super                     Tremolo
                                 Sub
       SWELL                     Unison Off
   16' Lieblich Gedeckt          Super
    8' Geigen Diapason
    8' Stopped Diapason          PEDAL
    8' Viole d'Gamba         32' Bourdon
    8' Viole Celeste         16' Contrebasse
    4' Geigen Principal      16' Bourdon
    4' Blockflöte            16' Gemshorn
    2' Fifteenth             16' Lieblich Gedeckt
  III  Mixture                8' Octave
   16' Fagotto                8' Flauto Dolce
    8' Trompette              8' Gemshorn
    8' Oboe                   8' Still Gedeckt
    8' Vox Humana         5 1/3' Quint
    4' Clarion                4' Fifteenth
       Tremolo                4' Nachthorn
       Sub                   II  Rauschquint
       Unison Off            16' Posaune
       Super                 16' Fagotto
                              8' Fagotto
                              4' Fagotto

      [Received from Jeff Scofield June 19, 2022]