Kenilworth Union Church
Kenilworth, Illinois
Opus 81, 2003
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GREAT |
pipes |
16' |
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Bourdon |
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58 |
8' |
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Prestant |
|
58 |
8' |
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Chimney Flute |
|
58 |
4' |
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Octave |
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58 |
4' |
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Spire Flute |
|
58 |
2-2/3' |
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Twelfth |
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58 |
2' |
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Fifteenth |
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58 |
1-3/5' |
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Seventeenth |
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58 |
IV |
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Mixture 1-1/3' |
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232 |
8' |
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Trumpet |
|
58 |
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Chimes |
existing retained |
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Swell to Great |
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SWELL (expressive) |
8' |
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Gedackt |
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58 |
8' |
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Salicional |
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58 |
8' |
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Celeste |
FF |
53 |
4' |
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Principal |
|
58 |
4' |
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Traverse Flute |
|
58 |
2' |
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Piccolo |
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58 |
1-1/3' |
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Larigot |
|
58 |
IV |
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Mixture 2' |
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232 |
16' |
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Bassoon |
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58 |
8' |
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Oboe |
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58 |
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Tremulant |
affects both manuals |
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PEDAL |
16' |
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Subbass |
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32 |
16' |
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Bourdon |
from Great |
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8' |
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Prestant |
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32 |
8' |
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Gedackt |
ext. Subbass |
12 |
4' |
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Choralbass |
ext. Prestant |
12 |
16' |
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Trombone |
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32 |
8' |
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Trumpet |
ext. Trombone |
12 |
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Great to Pedal |
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Swell to Pedal |
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Detached console |
Mechanical key action for the manuals and electric action for the pedal |
Electric stop action |
Manual divisions on the left side of the chancel;
Pedal division on the right, both in symmetrical cases of white oak |
8 level Solid State Logic combination action |
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Lynn Dobson’s original presentation drawing.
Construction Photos
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Meridith mills channels in a windchest toeboard.
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|The Great windchest with its rollerboard, lying upside down on a rolling cart.
(The leering image on the wall above the rollerboard is a poster for a Fleetwood Mac concert at Munichs Deutsches Museum, 18 January 1970.)
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The Swell windchest, with a somewhat more dignified poster as a backdrop.
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Bob glues rib leather on the Pedal reservoir.
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Two piles of coupler levers. These form part of the mechanism that allows the pipes of the Great or the Swell to play in the Pedal.
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Gluing up wooden pipes.
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The fronts of the pipes are cut on a milling machine. "13 F" means that piece of wood is the front of note number 13.
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Randy with the console brackets, which support the keydesk. They are first made as one piece (here shown upside down), which is then cut in half to form two brackets.
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Raised panels of quartersawn white oak for the console.
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A rear view of the Swell division, showing the swell box, windchest and rollerboard.
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The west case, which contains the manual divisions, and the detached console.
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East and west façades, as set up in the erecting room.
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The east case.
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Shop foreman Dean Heim touches up some of the painted accents.