Epworth Methodist Church
5253 N. Kenmore Avenue
Chicago, IL
OHS convention: 2002
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
Images
Unknown - Right stopjamb (Photograph by Organ Clearing House, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
Unknown - Left stopjamb (Photograph by Organ Clearing House, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2012-08-23 - Sanctuary interior (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)
2012-08-23 - Console to left (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)
2012-08-23 - Console to right (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)
2012-08-23 - Chapel Interior (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)
2012-08-23 - Chapel chancel and console (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
- 3 manuals
- 23 stops
- 38 registers
- 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: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
- Has tutti thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 2002. -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Pittman stop action. -Database Manager
2007-02-09 - Updated through on-line information from Martin Hill. -- A few tonal changes I noticed: -Great and Swell 8' Diapasons rescaled smaller -Clarinet and Cornopean exchanged locations; Cornopean now in swell. Choir division playable by second console in chapel. -Database Manager
2011-03-05 - Updated through on-line information from Connor Annable. -Database Manager
2022-08-23 - The organ has been sold and has now been moved to the shop of Columbia Organ Works for restoration. -Paul R. Marchesano
Stoplist
From The Stopt Diapason Spring 2010 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Epworth United Methodist Church, Chicago (Edgewater), IL
1931 M.P. Moller Opus 5881
Great (Manual II, Enclosed):
16' Double Open Diapason (from tenor C, from 8' Second Open Diapason)
8' First Open Diapason (metal-61 pipes)
8' Second Open Diapason (metal-61 pipes)
8' Claribel Flute (wood-61 pipes)
4' Octave (metal-61 pipes)
4' Flute Harmonique (metal-61 pipes)
2-2/3' Twelfth (metal-61 pipes)
2' Fifteenth (metal-61 pipes)
8' Trumpet (metal-61 pipes)
Chimes (tenor A through soprano F-21 Tubes)
Tremolo
Swell (Manual III, Enclosed):
8' Open Diapason (metal-73 pipes)
8' Chimney Flute (wood and metal-73 pipes)
8' Salicional (metal-73 pipes)
8' Muted Viole (metal-73 pipes)
8' Voix Celeste (from tenor C, metal-61 pipes)
4' Flute (extension, 8' Chimney Flute)
4' Violin (extension, 8' Muted Viole)
16' Double Oboe (from tenor C, from 8' Oboe)
8' Cornopean (metal-85 pipes)
8' Oboe (metal-73 pipes)
8' Vox Humana (metal-61 pipes)
Tremolo
Choir (Manual I, Enclosed):
16' Bourdon (wood and metal-97 pipes)
8' Open Diapason (metal-73 pipes)
8' Concert Flute (extension, 16' Bourdon)
8' Viole (metal-73 pipes)
8' Dulciana (metal-73 pipes)
8' Unda Maris (from tenor C, metal-61 pipes)
4' Flute (extension, 16' Bourdon)
2-2/3' Nazard (extension, 16' Bourdon)
2' Piccolo (extension, 16' Bourdon)
8' Clarinet (metal-73 pipes)
Tremolo
Pedal:
32' Resultant (from Diaphone and Bourdon)
16' Diaphone (extension, Great, 8' First Open Diapason, metal-12 pipes)
16' Bourdon (wood-44 pipes)
16' Second Bourdon (from Choir, 16' Bourdon)
8' Flute (extension, 16' Bourdon)
8' Flauto Dolce (from Choir, 16' Bourdon)
8' Salicional (from Swell, 8' Salicional)
16' Trombone (extension, Swell 8' Cornopean)
[Received from Connor Annable 2011-08-16.]
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