Better Pipe Organ Database

Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. Opus 1394 (1959)

First Presbyterian Church
104 S. 12th Street
McAllen, TX

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
19 stops
28 registers
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 (Details Unknown)
Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical

Notes

2008-06-28 - 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. -Database Manager

2008-07-10 - Updated through online information from Brad Richards. -- So pristine, that the voicers' labels are still on the pipes.... -Database Manager

2013-02-16 - Updated through online information from Cory Raymond. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stop list taken from the console December 27, 2013 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

McAllen, Texas
First Presbyterian Church

[The Name Plate reads]
Opus-1394
Joseph S. Whiteford
1962

Pedal
Principal 16'
Violone 16' (Sw)
Bourdon 16' (Gt)
Octave 8'
Viola 8' (Sw)
Bourdon 8' (Gt)
Choral Bass 4'
Contra Hautboy 16' (Sw)
Trumpet 8' (Sw)
Cromorne 4' (Sw)

Swell
Viola Pomposa 8'
Gedeckt 8'
Viola Celeste 8'
Spitzflote 4
Plein Jeu III
Contra Hautboy 16
Trumpet 8'
Cromorne 4'
Sw-Sw 16'
Unison
Sw-Sw 4'
Tremulant

Great
Principal 8'
Bourdon 8'
Octave 4'
Fifteenth 2'
Fourniture IV
[no Super or Sub couplers]

Choir
Rohrflote 8'
Salicional 8'
Klein Erzahler II 8'
Spillflote 4'
Sesquialtera II
Ch-Ch 16'
Unison
Ch-Ch 4'
Tremulant

Gt-Ped 8'
Sw-Ped 8'
Sw-Ped 4'
Ch-Ped 8'
Ch-Ped 4'

Sw-Gt 16'
Sw-Gt 8'
Sw-Gt 4'
Ch-Gt 16'
Ch-Gt 8'
Ch-Gt 4'

Sw-Ch 16'
Sw-Ch 8'
Sw-Ch 4'




 [Received from J. Mark Dunn 2013-12-28.]

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

McAllen, Texas
First Presbyterian Church

Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co., Inc.   Opus 1394   1962   3 manuals, 19 stops, 26 ranks
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           GREAT ORGAN                              SWELL ORGAN
        8' Principal           61                8' Gedeckt             68
        8' Bourdon             61                8' Viola Pomposa       68
        4' Octave              61                8' Viola Celeste       68
        2' Fifteenth           61                4' Spitzflöte          68
       IV  Fourniture         244              III  Plein Jeu          183
                                                16' Contre Hautbois     68
           CHOIR ORGAN                           8' Trompette           68
        8' Salicional          61                4' Cromorne            68
        8' Rohrflöte           61                   Tremulant
        8' Kleinerzähler II   110
        4' Spillflöte          61                   PEDAL ORGAN
       II  Sesquialtera       122               16' Principal           32
           Tremulant                            16' Violone             12 SW
                                                16' Bourdon             12 GT
                                                 8' Octave              12
                                                 8' Bourdon             GT
                                                 8' Viola               SW
                                                 4' Choralbass          12
                                                16' Contre Hautbois     SW
                                                 8' Trompette           SW
                                                 4' Cromorne            SW


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2016-03-14]

Websites

Opus 1394: First Presbyterian Church - (Aeolian-Skinner Archives website) Stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)