Better Pipe Organ Database

Robert L. Sipe, Inc. (1982)

University Presbyterian Church: Sanctuary
209 East Franklin Street
Chapel Hill, NC

Images

2012-01-30 - Chancel (Photograph by Tom Brown/Database Manager)

2012-01-30 - Console (Photograph by Tom Brown/Database Manager)

2012-01-30 - Positiv Pipes (Photograph by Tom Brown/Database Manager)

2012-01-30 - Great Pipes (Photograph by Tom Brown/Database Manager)

2012-01-30 - Swell Pipes (Photograph by Tom Brown/Database Manager)

2005-05-23 - Chancel and organ façade (Photograph by Thomas Brown/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Detached Keydesk (Mechanical Action)
3 manuals
37 stops
39 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Angled Jambs
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Computerized/Digital
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2011-08-13 - Identified through online information from Thomas Brown. -- The organ received a new Peterson 99-level combination action in 2003. It also received a revised Swell Mixture that year, lowering the pitch of the stop from a Zimbel-type mixture to a lower-pitched, more usable mixture. In 2010, the Swell 4' Flute Ouverte, which always suffered from serious tuning problems due to its scale and reaction to its placement on the chest, was replaced by a more narrow 4' Flute harmonique. Finally, the Swell 16' Basson stop was converted from a half-length stop throughout to a full-length stop, beginning at note 15. Sometime in the mid-1980s, two Walker digital 32' stops were added to the organ. Otherwise, no changes have been made to the instrument's voicing. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from the console October 5, 2011 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Chapel Hill, North Carolina
University Presbyterian Church

Robert Sipe, 1982

GREAT (Manual II, unenclosed)       POSITIV (Manual I, unenclosed)

16'  Bourdon          58            8'  Flute Conique      58
 8'  Principal        58            8'  Holzgedeckt        58
 8'  Gedeckt          58            4'  Principal          58
 4'  Octave           58            4'  Rohrflote          58
 4'  Spillflote       58        2 2/3'  Nazard             58
 2'  Octave           58            2'  Octave             58
II   Sesquialtera    116        1 3/5'  Tierce             58
IV-V Mixture 1 1/3'  256        1 1/3'  Larigot            58
 8'  Trompete         58       III-IV   Scharf 1'         220
     Tremulant                      8'  Cromorne           58
     Swell to Great                     Tremulant
     Positiv to Great                   Swell to Positiv

SWELL (Manual III, enclosed)        PEDAL

 8'  Viole            58            32'  Untersatz         **
 8'  Viole Celeste    53 FF         16'  Principal         32
 8'  Chimney Flute    58            16'  Subbass           32
 4'  Principal        58             8'  Octave            32
 4'  Flute Harmonique 58             8'  Spitzflote        32
 2'  Blockflote       58             4'  Choralbass        32
IV   Fourniture 2'   232            IV   Mixture 2 2/3'   128
16'  Basson           58            32'  Kontra Posaune    **
 8'  Hautbois         58            16'  Posaune           32
 4'  Clairon          58             8'  Trompete          32
     Tremulant                           Great to Pedal
                                         Swell to Pedal
                                         Positiv to Pedal

                                         ** Walker electronic voice
  

 [Received from Thomas Brown 2011-10-08.]