Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1984 -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Originally tubular pneumatic. Electrified soon after installation. Altered 1912 by Frank Morton and in 1927 by Kenneth Butler. Now [1985] has 2nd-hand 3m. Austin console installed some 50 years previously. -Database Manager
2015-06-08 - Updated through online information from T. Bradford Willis. -- According to an newspaper article, this historic church closed in November 2011 because of a dwindling congregation. http://chicago.urbdezine.com/2011/12/08/historic-episcopal-church-of-the-epiphany-shuts-its-doors/ -Database Manager
2015-06-08 - Updated through online information from T. Bradford Willis. -- http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/2011/11/historic-church-awaits-next-chapter-after-closing.html -Database Manager
2024-05-08 - The Austin console is at Epiphany Center for the Arts, formerly Church of the Epiphany, Chicago. Only the divided case of the 1892 Farrand & Votey remains in the former church. Looks like the chambers are empty, organ not operational. -- email received 2023-11-10, Laurence Libin -Paul R. Marchesano
Typed stoplist (Source: The Stopt Diapason, June 1980) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Church of the Epiphany (Episcopal)
Chicago, Illinois
Farrand & Votey, Opus 119, 1892
OHS ID: 5063
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GREAT SWELL CHOIR
16 Double Open Diapason 16 Double Gamba 16 Double Flute
8 Open Diapason 8 Open Diapason 8 Violin Diapason
8 Viol d'Gamba* 8 Gedackt 8 Dulciana
8 Viol d'Amour* 8 Salicional 8 Concert Flute*
8 Melodia* 8 AEoline 4 Flute d'Amour
4 Octave 8 Viol Celeste 4 Gemshorn
4 Flute Harmonic* 4 Octave 2 Harmonic Piccolo
2-2/3 Twelfth 4 Flauto Traverso 8 Orchestral Clarinet*
2 Fifteenth 4 Violina Tremulant
Mixture IV 2 Flautina *in Great swell box
8 Tuba Mirabilis* Mixture III 8 Swell to Choir
*in Great swell box 8 Cornopean
16 Swell to Great 8 Oboe & Basson PEDAL
8 Swell to Great 8 Vox Humana 32 Double Bourdon
4 Swell to Great Tremulant 16 Open Diapason
16 Choir to Great 4 Swell to Swell 16 Stopped Diapason
8 Choir to Great 16 Dulciana
8 Violoncello
PEDAL MOVEMENTS 16 Double Bassoon
Balanced Swell Pedal 8 Trumpet
Balanced Great & Choir Swell Pedal 8 Great to Pedal
Balanced Cresendo and Dimenuendo Pedal 8 Swell to Pedal
Four changeable composition pedals to 8 Choir to Pedal
Great, also affecting Pedal stops. 4 Pedal to Pedal
Three changeable composition pedals to
Swell, also affecting Pedal stops.
One changeable composition pedal to
Choir, also affecting Pedal stops.
The patent crescendo and dimenuendo pedal gives the player complete
control of the organ without affecting the stop action, the patent
indicator showing the increasing or decreasing power at a glance.
By means of pneumatic buttons placed between the keys, the cresecdo
pedal can be silenced on any row desired. The couplers are operated
by small tablets (like dominoes). These are pivoted in the center
and by simply touching the upper portion the coupler is thrown on,
while a touch on the lower portion throws it off. The keyboard is
reversed, so that the organist overlooks the South Choir and faces
the north Choir, while at the back of this portion of the Choir is
placed a complete organ of nearly five hundred pipes played from the
key board fiftey feet away.
HISTORICAL TIMELINE (by Walter Whitehouse)
1892 Organ built by Farrand & Votey of Detroit, Michigan for $12,000.
40 stops, 44 ranks, 11 couplers. Electro-pneumatic action,
pneumatic console (?).
1920's Original console (South side) replaced by Austin, North side of
chancel. Stop selection unchanged. Couplers added: Ch, Sw, Gt
Unison Off; Ch to Gt 4; Gt to Gt 16, 4; Sw to Sw 16; Sw to Ch
16, 4; Sw to Ped 4. Coupler deleted: "Pd to Pd 4."
1930-1950 Great expression chamber removed (stored over Swell chamber).
Choir Clarinet moved from Great side to Choir side. Choir
Piccolo moved to Great side in exchange.
1960-1970 Leather throughout organ failing; eventually becomes unusable
and is shut down. Piano is used for services.
1971 Vandalism of organ by "Organ repairman"; Stolen: Gt. Fifteenth,
Sw. Aeoline, Flautino, Cornopean. Mindless damage to other
ranks layed carelessly about the organ chamber, including
tearing off tops of resonators to Fagotte [sic] (Ped), damage
to resonators of Vox Humana, etc.
1973 Choir bellows releathered, choir organ becomes usable.
1974-1975 Rebuilding of Great and Pedal divisions. Organ functions as
a "whole" again, albeit with much damaged pipework.
1979-1980 Choir Piccolo moved to Great. Choir Concert Flute temporarily
abandoned. Addition of Gt to Pd 4 coupler. Addition of
Trumpet en Chemade on west wall.
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