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James R. McFarland & Co. Opus 21 (1987-88)

Presbyterian Church of the Cross: Sanctuary; front
1517 South 114th Street
Omaha, NE

Images

Date unknown - Organ from overhead (Photograph from an archival source: Church webpage, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2020-12-16 - Organ from the right (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2018-12-01 - Center of case (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2016-12-18 - Chancel and Organ (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2018-12-01 - Organ in front from the rear (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2018-02-01 - View of organ up center aisle (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2017-09-03 - Sanctuary interior with organ in front from rear gallery (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
31 stops
31 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped 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)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - The original builder was George S. Hutchings (1895, Opus 374). -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1998 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Relocated via OCH from Stuart Shop, Chicopee, MA. Rebuilt by McFarland. -Database Manager

2022-10-30 - According to the church website about the organ, about half the pipework, the windchests for the manuals, the keyboards, stop knobs, and reservoir were all retained from the 1895 Hutchings, Opus 374. -Jim Stettner

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist from The Pipes of Greater Omaha, Edward A. Holyoke, Jr., MD Date not recorded

       Omaha, Nebraska
       Presbyterian Church of the Cross

       Hutchings          1895   Op. 374
       James McFarland    1987   Op. 21   2/39
       Philip Beaudry     1988
       __________________________________________________________________________

       GREAT
16'    Bourdon              61 *
8'     Open Diapason        61
8'     Stopped Diapason     61 *
8'     Harmonic Flute       49 *a
4'     Octave               61
4'     Flute d'Amour        61 *
2 2/3' Twelfth              61
2'     Fifteenth            61
1 3/5' Seventeenth          61
V      Mixture             294 b
8'     Trumpet              61


       SWELL (Expressive)
8'     Gedeckt              61 *
8'     Salicional           61 *
8'     Celeste        (tc)  49 *
4'     Principal            61
4'     Traverse Flute       49 *
2 2/3' Nazard               61
2'     Octave               61
1 3/5' Tierce               61
III    Mixture             183 c
II     Acuta               122 d
16'    Basson               61
8'     Oboe                 61 *


       PEDAL
16'    Principal            32
16'    Sub Bass             32 *
8'     Octave               32
8'     Bass Gedeckt         32 *
4'     Super Octave         32 *
II     Quartane             64 *e
16'    Trombone             32 *
8'     Tromba               32 *


*  existing pipework from 1895 Hutchings Op. 374
a  1-12 from 8' Stopped Diapason 
b  15-19-22-26-29
c  15-19-22
d  26-29
e  12-15

[Received online from Jeff Scofield July 20, 2012

Websites

Church website: About Our Organ - History, stoplist, photo (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#6386†* - Geo. S. Hutchings (& Co.) Opus 374 (1895)