First Unitarian Church: Sanctuary
2125 Chestnut St.
Philadelphia, PA
Images
2024-01-10 - Console (Photograph by Otto Jensen/Otto Jensen)
2010-04-11 - Church exterior (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2015-02-22 - Church exterior front (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2009-01-10 - Church interior to rear (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2009-01-10 - Church interior and exposed pipes (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
- 3 manuals
- 37 stops
- 36 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 (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
- Has combination toe pistons
- Has coupler thumb pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
- Has tutti thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2010-01-14 - Identified by Riley Wes Mitchell from information furnished by Casavant Frères, courtesy of Simon Couture. -Database Manager
2010-10-31 - Updated through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -- Located along the center of the left wall -Database Manager
2012-10-22 - Updated through online information from Alex Smith. -- Instrument built during Lawrence Phelps-era at Casavant, designed in French Classical style. Location in room is rather unique, located in a loft halfway down the left wall of the sanctuary. Exposed 16' pedal principal with Ruckpositiv division cantilevered off the sanctuary wall. Swell box located behind the C# side of the Pedal principal; pedal chamber with percussion celeste located behind C side of pedal principal with the other 16' pedal stops. The great and pedal upper work are located above the swell box and pedal chamber close to the ceiling. Console is placed in the middle of the loft, fixed. Church building is historic- designed by architect Frank Furness with stained glass by Louis Tiffany & Co. and John la Farge. -Database Manager
2013-02-05 - Updated through online information from Alex Smith. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Stoplist copied from the factory specifications Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
First Unitarian Church
Casavant Op. 2898 1966 3/50
Courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives
St. Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada
GREAT RUCKPOSITIV *
16' Quintade 61 8' Gedackt 61
8' Principal 61 4' Principal 61
8' Rohrflöte 61 4' Koppelflöte 61
4' Octave 61 2' Octave 61
4' Spitzflöte 61 1 1/3' Quintflöte 61
2' Blockflöte 61 II Sesquialtera 122
V Mixture 305 IV Zimbel 244
8' Trompete 61 8' Knopfregal 61
SWELL * this division has an
8' Salicional 61 electrically-operated
8' Salicional céleste 61 slide chest
8' Gedacktflöte 61
4' Spitzprinzipal 61 PEDAL
4' Nachthorn 61 16' Principal 32
2 2/3' Nasat 61 16' Subbass 32
2' Flachflöte 61 8' Octave 32
1 3/5' Terz 61 8' Pommer 32
IV Scharf 244 4' Octave 32
16' Fagott L/2 61 4' Rohrpfeife 32
8' Krummhorn 61 IV Mixture 128
Tremulant 16' Posaune 32
4' Schalmei 32
[Received online from Jeff Scofield October 31, 2010]
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