Better Pipe Organ Database

Gress-Miles Organ Co. (1981-)

University of Alaska Fairbanks: Fine Arts Complex - Davis Concert Hall
College of Liberal Arts Department of Music
Fairbanks, AK

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Movable Console
3 manuals
66 stops
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)
Combination action: Computerized/Digital
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1996. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - May be largest organ in Alaska. -Database Manager

2006-04-02 - Updated through on-line information from Glenn Johnson. -Database Manager

2006-10-31 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- Installed across the front of the hall. Façade consists of 22 wooden pipes of the Pedal 16' Subbass and 40 pipes of the Great 8' Montre. The 4-sectional, mirror-image façade has the Subbass on the outsides and the Montre in the middle, arranged: 11-20-20-11. The rest of the organ is chambered behind this façade. The organ has only unison inter-manual and manual-to-pedal couplers, and only an Octave Graves intra-manual coupler on the Swell - which does couple-thru if the Swell-to-Great coupler is on. The unexpressive Positiv has an 8' Flute Conique and Flute Celeste that are enclosed with the Swell. The console is laid-out French-style, with the Great as manual I, the Positiv as manual II, and the Swell as manual III. There is no crescendo pedal. The organ was installed in June of 1982. -Database Manager

2010-08-21 - Updated through on-line information from Nikki Saltmarsh. -Database Manager

2011-03-04 - Updated through on-line information from David A. Stech, Ph.D.. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the builder specifications Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Fairbanks, Alaska
University of Alaska Fairbanks

Gress-Miles (G. Edgar Gress)  1982   3/44

   Great (I)               Positiv (II)                Swell (III) 
16'  Gedecktpommer       8' Montre                  16' Bourdon
8'   Principal           8' Holzgedeckt              8' Viole de Gambe 
8'   Rohrfloete          8' Spillfloete              8' Viole Celeste TC
8'   Harmonic Flute      8' Flute Conique (Sw)       8' Bourdon
4'   Octave              8' Flute Celeste TC (Sw)    4' Octave Viole
4'   Koppelfloete        4' Principal                4' Octave Celeste 
2'   Super Octave        4' Spillfloete              4' Spitzfloete 
2'   Rohrfloete      2 2/3' Nazard               2 2/3' Quint TC  
IV-V Mixture             2' Octave                   2' Principal
II   Cornet              2' Spillfloete              2' Blockfloete
8'   Trumpet         1 3/5' Tierce               1 3/5' Terz TC
4'   Clarion         1 1/3' Quintfloete          1 1/3' Quint 
     Chimes              1' Siffloete                1' Octave
                     III-IV Scharf               II-III Zimbel
                         8' Cromorne                16' Basson 
                            Tremulant                8' Trompette 
                                                     8' Hautbois
                                                     8' Voix Humaine
                                                     4' Clarion
                                                        Tremulant
                                                        Octaves Graves

                                Pedal
32' Acoustic Bass         5 1/3' Quintfloete           16' Posaune (Gr)
32' Cornet III                4' Octave                16' Basson (Sw)
16' Subbass                   4' Bourdon (Sw)           8' Trumpet (Gr)
16' Bourdon (Sw)              4' Harmonic Flute (Gr)    8' Basson (Sw)
8'  Principal                 2' Super Octave           4' Cromorne (Pos)
8'  Rohrgedeckt (Gr)          2' Harmonic Flute (Gr)    4' Hautbois (Sw)
8'  Bourdon (Sw)          III-IV Mixture (Gr)   


Zimbelstern (toe stud reversible)

[Received on line from Nikki Saltmarsh August 21, 2010.]

Websites

Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra - Photograph and description of the organ in the Charles W. Davis Concert Hall (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)