Eureka Christian Church
302 S. Main Street
Eureka, IL
Images
2010-08-12 - Sanctuary interior (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)
2010-08-12 - Chancel and chamber opening (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)
2010-08-12 - Console rear (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)
2010-08-12 - Console (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)
2010-08-12 - Coupler rail (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)
2010-08-12 - Left Stopjamb (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)
2010-08-12 - Right Stopjamb (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
- 2 manuals
- 18 stops
- 3 divisions
- Key action Type: Electrical
- Stop action Type: Electrical
- Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
- Manual compass: 32 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 thumb pistons
- Has combination toe pistons
- Has coupler thumb pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2012-08-07 - Identified through online information from Robin Robinson -- enlargement of existing Aeolian-Skinner organ of 1937. -Database Manager
2014-06-09 - Updated through online information from Robert C. Delvin. -- Information based on first-hand observation and Aeolian-Skinner correspondence dated 12 May - 2 June, 1964. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Stop list and details taken from console (May 2014) and Aeolian-Skinner correspondence dated 12 May - 2 June, 1964. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Eureka, Illinois USA
Eureka Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co., Inc. Opus 972/972-A (1937/1964)
Manuals: 2
Registers: 18
Ranks: 15
Pipes: 1018
Electro-pneumatic action (Pittman chests)
Non-italic registers date from original 1937 installation. Italic registers date from 1964 rebuild. Registers are listed as they ordered on console stopjambs.
Great Organ (compass 61 notes)
Mixture III (183 pipes on a new chest)
2’ Fifteenth (61 new pipes on a new chest)
4’ Octave (61 new pipes on a new chest)
8’ Rohrflute (Swell)
8’ Open Diapason
8’ Erzahler (61 new pipes on a new unit chest enclosed in Swell)
Swell Organ (compass 73 notes)
8’ Oboe
8’ Cornopean
2’ Spitzflote (12 pipe ext. from Gemshorn; controlled from existing Tremulant know re-engraved)
4’ Gemshorn (73 new pipes on new unit chest; controlled from new knob on spare trace)
4’ Δ Flute
8’ Salicional
8’ Voix Celeste
8’ Rohrflute
Tremulant (controlled from engraved tablet on left key cheek)
Pedal Organ (compass 56 notes)
4’ Principal (12 pipe ext. of Contre Basse)
8’ Octave (12 pipe ext. of Contre Basse)
16’ Gedeckt (12 pipe ext. of Rohrflute)
16’ Contre Basse (56 new pipes on new chest)
Note: Original 1937 Subbass 16’ rank & chest removed and returned to Aeolian-Skinner
Couplers: (left to right above manuals)
Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal 4’
Swell to Great [unison]
Swell 16’
Swell 4’
Swell to Great 4
Great 4
Mechanicals:
Swell Expression; Crescendo Pedal; Full Organ Reversible
Divisional thumb & toe pistons; General Cancel; Sforzando
Tutti I – III: general pistons, controlled by toe studs with indicator lights, not mutually cancelling, but affected by General Cancel.
Specification and details taken from console and Aeolian-Skinner correspondence dated 12 May – 2 June, 1964.
Supplied by Robert C. Delvin
Bloomington, Illinois
[Received from Robert C. Delvin 2014-06-05.]
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