Better Pipe Organ Database

Schantz Organ Co. Opus 879 (1968)

First Presbyterian Church: Sanctuary; front
325 E. Downer Place
Aurora, IL

Images

1968 - View of the installed organ before sheer curtains installed. (Photograph from an archival source: Published parish history, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

ca. 2021 - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Church website, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
3 manuals
45 stops
30 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)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Remote Pneumatic/Mechanical Capture
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2012-02-28 - Identified through online information from Russell Meyer. The Schantz replaced a ca. 1915, 2-manual instrument of undocumented manufacture. -Database Manager

2012-02-29 - Updated through online information from Russell Meyer. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist from dedication program Date not recorded

Aurora, Illinois
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Schantz Organ Company, Opus 879, 1968 - 3/35, 2077 pipes


       GREAT ORGAN
16'    Quintaton                61 pipes
8'     Principal                61 pipes
8'     Quintaton                12 pipes
4'     Octave                   61 pipes
4'     Spitzfloete              61 pipes
2'     Super Octave             61 pipes
IV     Fourniture              183 pipes  also draws Super Octave
       Chimes                   25 tubes  Deagan Class \"D\"

       SWELL ORGAN (Expressive)
8'     Rohrfloete               68 pipes
8'     Viola Pomposa            68 pipes
8'     Viola Celeste TC         56 pipes
4'     Principal                68 pipes
4'     Flute Conique            61 pipes
2'     Waldfloete               61 pipes
1-1/3' Quinte                   61 pipes
III    Plein Jeu               183 pipes
16'    Contra Fagot             12 pipes
8'     Trompette                68 pipes
8'     Fagot                    68 pipes
4'     Hautbois                 68 pipes
       Tremulant

       CHOIR ORGAN (Expressive)
8'     Holzgedeckt              61 pipes
8'     Gemshorn                 61 pipes
8'     Gemshorn Celeste TC      49 pipes
4'     Koppelfloete             61 pipes
2-2/3' Nasard                   61 pipes
2'     Principal                61 pipes
1-3/5' Tierce                   61 pipes
8'     Krummhorn                61 pipes
       Tremulant

       PEDAL ORGAN
16'    Principal                12 pipes
16'    Subbass                  32 pipes
16'    Quintaton          (GT)  --
8'     Octave                   12 pipes
8'     Flute                    12 pipes
8'     Quintaton          (GT)  --
4'     Choral Bass              32 pipes
4'     Flute                    12 pipes
2'     Octavin                  12 pipes
II     Rauschquinte             64 pipes
16'    Posaune                  32 pipes
16'    Contra Fagot       (SW)  --
8'     Trompete                 12 pipes
8'     Fagot              (SW)  --
4'     Klarine                  12 pipes
4'     Fagot              (SW)  --
4'     Krummhorn          (CH)  --


 [Received from Russell Meyer 2012-02-29.]