Better Pipe Organ Database

Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. Opus 1244 (1953)

First Church of Christ, Scientist
Rockford, IL

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
2 manuals
13 stops
16 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Setterboard
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2008-06-11 - 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: Extant; unaltered; moved to new building by Harold Lucas. -Database Manager

2012-03-02 - Updated through online information from Gregory Gyllsdorff. -Database Manager

2018-10-29 - The congregation moved again in 2016 to a small 30-seat facility in a suburban office park. The 1976 facility was sold to Gethsemane Christian Church. -Database Manager

Stoplist

From Allen Kinzey via The Aeolian-Skinner Archives Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Rockford, Illinois
First Church of Christ, Scientist

Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co., Inc.   Opus 1244   1953
2 manuals, 16 registers, 13 stops, 14 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN (enclosed)             SWELL ORGAN
      8' Principal           61          8' Rohrflöte           68
      8' Bourdon             61          8' Viola Pomposa       68
      8' Flauto Dolce        61          8' Viola Celeste       68
      8' Flute Celeste (TC)  49          4' Flute Harmonique    68
      4' Octave              61          2' Zauberflöte         61
     II  Rauschquinte       122          8' Hautbois            68
         Tremulant                          Tremulant

         PEDAL ORGAN
     16' Dolce Bass          12 GT
     16' Contra Viola        12 SW
      8' Principal           32
      4' Choralbass          12


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2014-11-29]

Websites

Opus 1244: First Church of Christ, Scientist - (Aeolian-Skinner Archives Web Site) Stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)