Better Pipe Organ Database

Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. Opus 1187 (1949)

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, West Ward
1101 North Central Avenue
Glendale, CA

Images

2021-05-29 - Organ chamber (Photograph by Ryan J. Ballantyne, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

0021-05-29 - Console (Photograph by Ryan J. Ballantyne, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2016-02-04 - Swell and Pedal Stops (Photograph by Christian Draper/Database Manager)

2016-02-04 - Couplers (Photograph by Christian Draper/Database Manager)

2016-02-04 - Great Stops (Photograph by Christian Draper/Database Manager)

2016-02-04 - Console (Photograph by Christian Draper/Database Manager)

2016-02-04 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by Christian Draper/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
2 manuals
9 stops
11 registers
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 combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2008-07-05 - 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

2016-01-07 - Updated through online information from Christian Draper. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist Source: from Allen Kinzey Date not recorded

Glendale, California
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, West Ward

Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co., Inc.   Opus 1187   1949
2 manuals, 10 registers, 9 stops, 11 ranks
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The organ is enclosed in one box.
 
 
                  GREAT ORGAN
               8' Principal           61
               8' Spitzflöte          61
               4' Nachthorn           61
 
                  SWELL ORGAN
               8' Bourdon             68
               8' Viola               68
               4' Prestant            68
             III  Plein Jeu          183
                  Tremolo
 
                  PEDAL ORGAN
              16' Bourdon             32
               8' Octave              32
               8' Flute               12

                  COUPLERS
                  Great to Pedal      8  4
                  Swell to Pedal      8  4
                  Swell to Great  16  8  4
                  Swell to Swell  16     4
                  Great to Great         4


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2018-04-24]

Websites

Opus 1187: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, West Ward - (Aeolian-Skinner Archives website) Stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)