First Congregational Church
20 East St. Vrain
Colorado Springs, CO
Images
2009-12-28 - Chancel and facade (Photograph by Photograph by Bryan Dunnewald, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2009-12-28 - 1889 Hook & Hastings facade (Photograph by Photograph by Bryan Dunnewald, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2009-12-28 - Assembly Hall adjoining the sanctuary (Photograph by Photograph by Bryan Dunnewald, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2009-12-28 - Church interior to rear (Photograph by Photograph by Bryan Dunnewald, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2009-12-28 - Church interior and 1889 Hook & Hastings facade (Photograph by Photograph by Bryan Dunnewald, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
1910-11-01 - Church exterior (Photo from church website; used with permission/Database Manager)
2009-12-28 - Church exterior (Photograph by Bryan Dunnewald/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
- Console position: Keydesk Attached
- 3 manuals
- 37 stops
- Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
- Stop action Type: Electrical
- Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
- Manual compass: 58 notes
- Pedal compass: 30 notes
- Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
- Combination action: Remote Pneumatic/Mechanical Capture
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has combination toe pistons
- Has tutti thumb pistons
Notes
2004-10-30 - Rebuilt by Dewey Layton 1952, 3-60; rebuilt by Roderer 1972, 3-48. PSS old & new stop lists. -Database Manager
2007-01-06 - Updated through online information from Scott Christiansen. -- Case and Mechanicals are largely original. Most Hook pipework gone in Layton and Roderer rebuilds. Well maintained and used weekly. Water turbine still in place. -Database Manager
Stoplist
New Organ 2012 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Organ of First Congregational Church, United Church of Christ
20 East St. Vrain
Colorado Springs, Colorado 80903
Hook and Hastings
Boston, Massachusetts
Opus 1432 – 1889
Original Hook and Hastings stoplist:
Great
16 Open Diapason
8 Open Diapason
8 Gamba
8 Doppelflote
4 Octave
4 Harmonic Flute
2 Fifteenth
III Mixture
8 Trumpet
Swell to Great 8
Choir to Great 8
Swell
16 Bourdon
8 Open Diapason
8 Stopped Diapason
8 Salicional
8 Aeoline
8 Voix Celeste
4 Traverse Flue
4 Violina (Prep)
2 Flautino
III Dolce Cornet
8 Cornopean
8 Oboe
8 Vox Humana (Prep)
Choir
8 Geigen Principal
8 Concert Flute
8 Dulciana
4 Flute d'Amour
4 Fugara (Prep)
2 Harmonic Piccolo
8 Clarinet
Tremolo
Swell to Choir
Pedal
16 Open Diapason
16 Bourdon
8 Cello
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal
Choir to Pedal
Bellows Signal
Later alterations:
Layton Organs
Florence, Colorado
1952
(most Hook pipework discarded – combination of tracker and electric chests – 60 ranks)
Roderer Organ Company
Evanston, Illinois
1972
(some new pipework - returned to all tracker action – 50 ranks)
Morel and Associates, Inc
Denver, Colorado
2012
(restored pipework with some Hook pipework from opus 1446 – former St. Marks Episcopal, Denver -
electrified Hook chests, new console, Peterson ICS 4000 system, 50 ranks, Rodgers MIDI stops)
[Received from Scott Christiansen 2012-12-28.]
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