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Richard Schneider / Schneider Pipe Organs, Inc. Opus 17 (1987)

First United Methodist Church: Sanctuary; front
101 S. William Street
Farmer City, IL

Images

2010-11-10 - Case and facade (Photograph by David Harris/Database Manager)

2010-02-08 - Keyboard installed by Schneider 1987 (Photograph by David Harris/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
19 stops
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Has hitchdown couplers

Notes

2004-10-30 - The original builder was Hinners Organ Co. (1905). -Database Manager

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

2004-10-30 - Rebuilt and enlarged by Schneider. -Database Manager

2005-06-14 - On-line update from Richard Schneider -- The organ recently suffered water damage to the manual slider chests due to an undetected roof leak and is currently undergoing replacement of the Great slider chest (being built by Duys & Nicholson of Minnesota) and extensive repairs to the Swell slider chest by Richard Schneider (the renovator in 1986-7). -Database Manager

2006-03-07 - Updated through on-line information from Richard Schneider. -Database Manager

Stoplist

7-8-08 From Schneider documents Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Farmer City, Illinois USA 61842
United Methodist Church of Farmer City

1905 Hinners (Opus 643)/1987 Schneider (Opus 17)

GREAT ORGAN: - Suspended Mechanical Action
Prestant	8'	
Rohr Flöte	8'	
Prinzipal	4'	
Koppel Flöte	4'	
Flageolet	2'	
III Mixtur	1 1/3'	
		
SWELL ORGAN: - Suspended mechanical action 
Bourdon	         16'	
Violin Diapason	  8'	
Lieblich Gedackt  8'	
Salizional	  8'	
Voix Celestes	  8'	
Spitz Prinzipal	  4'	
Prinzipal	  2'	
II Sesquialtera  (double draw)			
Tremulant

PEDAL ORGAN: - Electric action
Subbass         	16'	
Lieblich Bourdon	16'	
Prestantbass	         8'	
Pommer	                 8'	
Choralbass	         4'	

COUPLERS: (Mechanical, by hitch-down pedals) 
II-I Unison Pitch
II-P Unison Pitch
I-P Unison Pitch
ACCESSORIES:

2 Composition pedals for Great Division. ("MEZZO"/"PIANO")
32 note AGO pedalboard

Note:  There is no settable combination action on this instrument.



 [Received from David Harris 2013-05-08.]

Websites

Schneider Pipe Organs - FARMER CITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - Stoplist, photograph, history and description (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

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