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Hal Gober (2004)

First Church in Oberlin (UCC)
106 N. Main Street
Oberlin, OH

OHS convention: 2009


Images


2008-06-25 - Sanctuary Interior, Chancel, and Organ Case (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2008-06-25 - Choir Loft and Keydesk (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2008-06-25 - Drawknobs (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2008-06-25 - Church Exterior (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2009-07-08 - Organ (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2009-07-08 - Keydesk (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2009-07-08 - Nameplate (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main


Notes

2014-12-20 - Incorporates pipework from the preceding modified Ernest M. Skinner Co. organ (1914, Op. 229) originally built for Second Congregational Church and relocated to First Church in 1927. -Database Manager

2017-06-26 - Mechanical (suspended) key action with electric action for certain Pedal pipes -Database Manager


Stoplist

Typed specification Source: from <i>Organ Atlas 2009 • The City of Cleveland and Northern Ohio</i> (OHS Press) Date not recorded

Oberlin, Ohio
First Church in Oberlin, United Church of Christ

Gober Organs, Inc.   2004         2 manuals, 40 registers, 37 stops, 50 ranks
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          GREAT ORGAN                            SWELL ORGAN
      16' Double Diapason     49             16' Bourdon             58
          (1-9 fr. Ped 16' Dbl Diap)          8' Principal           58
       8' Open Diapason       58              8' Stopped Diapason    58
       8' Flute Harmonique    58              8' Viola da Gamba      58
       8' Salcional           58              8' Vox Coelestis       58
       8' Bourdon             58              4' Principal           58
       4' Octave              58              4' Flauto Traverso     58
       4' Flute               58          2 2/3' Nazard              58
   2 2/3' Twelfth             58              2' Flautino            58
       2' Fifteenth           58          1 3/5' Tierce              56
          Cornet 5 rks (TG)  170                 Mixture 4-5 rks    262
          Mixture 5-6 rks    343             16' Bassoon             58
       8' Trumpet             58              8' Cornopean           58
       8' Clarinet            58              8' Oboe                58
          Swell to Great                      4' Clarion             58
                                                 Tremolo
          COMBINATION ACTION
          General   1-12  (thumb & toe)          PEDAL ORGAN
          Swell      1-6  (thumb)            32' Contra Bourdon      12
          Great      1-6  (thumb)            16' Wood Diapason       32
          Pedal      1-5  (toe)              16' Double Diapason     32
          General Cancel  (thumb)            16' Violone             32
          Set             (thumb)            16' Bourdon             44
                                              8' Octave              32
          REVERSIBLES                         8' Violoncello         32
          Swell to Great  (thumb)             8' Bourdon (fr. 16')   --
          Swell to Pedal  (thumb)             4' Super Octave        32
          Great to Pedal  (thumb)            16' Trombone            44
                                              8' Trumpet (fr. Tbn)   --
          Sequencer +     (thumb & toe)       4' Clarion             32
          Sequencer -     (thumb & toe)          Great to Pedal
          APP             (thumb)                Swell to Pedal
          UP              (thumb)
          DOWN            (thumb)                Balanced Expression Shoe


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2017-06-26]


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