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This organ received OHS Citation number 280, 2002-07-01.

Traditional style console with roll top. The console is in a fixed position, center.

Four manuals. 7 divisions. 121 stops. 81 ranks. 5466 pipes.

Electro-pneumatic (EP) chests.

Stop keys on angled jambs. Balanced swell shoes/pedals, standard AGO placement. Combination Action: Computerized/Digital system. AGO Standard (concave radiating) pedalboard. Reversible full organ/tutti thumb piston. Reversible full organ/tutti toe stud. Combination action thumb pistons. Combination action toe studs. Coupler reversible thumb pistons. Coupler reversible toe studs.

Notes:

• Status Note: There 1995 (OHS PC Database. 2004-10-30)
• Main bldg. for merger of 1st Cong.l and Union Park Cong., as 1st Congregational. Bldg. acquired by 1st Baptist Cong. in 1970. Behind casework of 1871 Hook & Hastings Op. 578 (7 H & H ranks in organ). (OHS PC Database. 2004-10-30)
• Updated through on-line information from Arthur D. Griffin. -- A Kimball pipe organ was commissioned and donated as a gift by the Andrew & Mary Dole. It became the largest totally enclosed organ in the country, if not the world. The new, larger organ retained much of the Hook and Hastings casework, its entire façade and some of its interior pipe work, revoiced. The Kimball organ was dedicated on Sunday, October 9, 1927 and was immediately used for community concerts as well as for worship services. (Database Manager. 2007-02-09)
• Updated through on-line information from Ronald Crowl. (Database Manager. 2011-06-14)

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• Scope of the 1993 Restoration Project. On-line update from Arthur D. Griffin.. (The on-line document is a plain text file. ) Document Date: 2000-01-01.

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• Stoplist taken from console and private notes/recordings - October, 1969
  

  W.W. KIMBALL CO.
  New First Congregational Church
  Chicago, Illinois
  KPO 6949 – 1927 
  
  	GREAT: Expressive
  
  16’	Open Diapason 12
  16’	Bourdon 73
  8’	First Open Diapason 73
  8’	Second Open Diapason 73
  8’	Third Open Diapason 73
  8’	Doppel Flute 73
  8’	Gamba 73
  8’	Gemshorn 73
  8’	Gemshorn Celeste 73
  4’	Octave 12
  4’	Flute Harmonic 12
  2-2/3’	Twelfth 73
  2’	Fifteenth 73
  1-3/5’	Seventeenth 61
  1-1/3’	Nineteenth 61
  1-1/7’	Septieme 61
  1’	Twenty-Second 61
  IV rk.	Mixture (collective)
  16’	Double Trombone 12
  8’	Tromba 73
  8’	Trumpet 73
  4’	Clarion 12
  	Tremolo
  8’	Chimes ECHO
  	Celesta CH
  	Sub
  	Unison Off
  	Super
  
  	SWELL: Expressive
  
  16’	Bourdon 12
  8’	Open Diapason 73
  8’	Violin Diapason 73
  8’	Clarabella 73
  8’	Viola da Gamba 73
  8’	Viola Celeste 73
  8’	Stopped Flute 73
  8’	Salicional 73
  8’	Vox Celeste 73
  8’	Aeoline 73
  4’	Octave 73
  4’	Flute 12
  4’	Violina 73
  2-2/3’	Twelfth 7
  2’	Flautino 5
  IV rk.	Solo Dolce Cornet 12.15.17.19 244
  16’	Contra Posaune 73
  16’	Contra Fagotto 12
  8’	Cornopean 73
  8’	Oboe 73
  8’	Vox Humana 61
  4’	Tromba Clarion 73
  4’	Oboe Clarion 12
  	Tremolo
  	Vox Vibrato
  	Celesta Sub CH
  	Celesta CH
  	Sub
  	Unison Off
  	Super
  
  	CHOIR: Expressive
  
  16’	Contra Salicional 73
  8’	English Diapason 73
  8’	Concert Flute 73
  8’	Stopped Diapasonj 73
  8’	Flauto Dolce 73
  8’	Flute Celeste 61
  8’	Dolce 73
  8’	Unda Maris 73
  4’	Fugara 73
  4’	Flute d’Amour 73
  2-2/3’	Nazard 73
  2’	Piccolo 73
  1-3/5’	Tierce 61
  8’	Clarinet 73
  8’	Orchestral Oboe 73
  	Tremolo
  	Celesta
  	Octave Celesta
  	Sub
  	Unison Off
  	Super
  
  	SOLO: Expressive
  
  8’	Stentorphone 73
  8’	Melophone 73
  8’	Gross Gamba 73
  4’	Orchestral Flute 73
  16’	Tuba Profunda 12
  8’	Tuba Mirabilis 73
  8’	Tuba 73
  8’	French Horn 73
  8’	English Horn 73
  4’	Tuba Clarion 12
  	Tremolo
  8’	Chimes ECHO
  	Celesta CH
  	Sub
  	Unison Off
  	Super
  
  	ANTIPHONAL: Expressive
  
  8’	Open Diapason 73
  8’	Gross Flute 73
  8’	Rohr Flute 73
  8’	Viola 73
  8’	Viola Celeste 73
  8’	Horn 73
  	Tremolo
  	Sub
  	Super
  	Antiphonal on Swell
  	Main Organ Off
  
  	ECHO: Expressive
  
  16’	Lieblich Gedeckt 73
  8’	Fern Flute 73
  8’	Flute Celeste 61
  8’	Viola Aetheria 73
  4’	Wald Flute 73
  8’	Corno d’Amour 73
  8’	Vox Humana 61
  	Tremolo
  	Vox Vibrato
  8’	Chimes
  	Sub
  	Super
  	Echo on Solo
  	Main Organ Off
  
  	PEDAL: Expressive
  
  32’	Diaphone 12
  32’	Acoustic Bass RES
  16’	Diaphone 32
  16’	First Open Diapason 32
  16’	Second Open Diapason GT
  16’	Violone 32
  16’	First Bourdon 32
  16’	Second Bourdon GT
  16’	Contra Salicional CH
  16’	Lieblich Gedeckt SW
  16’	Antiphonal Contra Bass 12
  16’	Antiphonal Contra Viola 12
  16’	Echo Lieblich Gedeckt ECHO
  8’	Octave 12
  8’	Flute 12
  8’	Cello 12
  8’	Still Gedeckt SW
  4’	Super Octave 12
  4’	Flute 12
  32’	Bombarde 12-SO
  16’	Ophiecleide 32
  16’	Tuba SO
  16’	Trombone GT
  16’	Contra Posaune SW
  16’	Bassoon SW’
  8’	Tromba 12
  8’	Trumpet GT
  4’	Clarion 12
  
  [Received from Ronald Crowl 2011-06-14.]

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