Better Pipe Organ Database

Wicks Pipe Organ Co. Opus 4720 (1967)

First Baptist Church
551 North Westwood Blvd.
Poplar Bluff, MO

Images

2016-04-07 - Church interior (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2017-04-20 - Church exterior (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Unknown - Church Exterior (Photographer unknown, courtesy of Ray Smithee (2010's)/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
3 manuals
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 (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 2003. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - "STLAGO lists 1967, possibly dedication year." -Database Manager

2005-09-05 - On-line update from Ray Smithee -- Extremely low windpressures were used in this instrument. I believe 2.5 inches. -Database Manager

2019-02-11 - Updated by Ray Smithee, who has heard or played the organ. <br> <br>This organ was designed by Ray Ferguson, Professor of Organ at Wayne State University, and a well-known concert artist in the 60s. Ray grew up in Poplar Bluff and attended First Baptist Church. His piano teacher, Lillian Carnochan was the pianist at First Baptist. When it was time for the new organ to be designed for the new sanctuary, the organist, and giver of the instrument, Ora Fern Fitch, called on Ray to design the stop list. It\'s interesting in that for 33 ranks spread over four divisions there are so few extensions or borrowings. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from console. Organist 1980-1983 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Poplar Bluff, Missouri
First Baptist Church

Wicks Organ Company  1967   III/33


GREAT

8       Principal               61 pipes
8       Rohrflote               61 pipes
8       Salicional (Sw)
4       Octave                  61 pipes
4       Spitzflote              61 pipes
2       Blockflote              61 pipes
IV      Mixture                244 pipes
        Chimes                  21 tubes


SWELL

8       Gedeckt                 61 pipes
8       Salicional              61 pipes
8       Voix Celeste            49 pipes
4       Gemshorn                61 pipes
2       Waldflote               61 pipes
1 1/3   Quinte                  61 pipes
8       Trompette               61 pipes
4       Rohrschalmei            61 pipes
        Tremolo


CHOIR

8       Copula                  61 pipes
8       Dulciana                49 pipes
4       Koppelflote             61 pipes
2 2/3   Nazard                  61 pipes
2       Principal               61 pipes
1 3/5   Terz                    38 pipes
II      Mixture                122 pipes
8       Krummhorn               61 pipes
        Tremolo


PEDAL

16     Contrabass               32 pipes
16     Subbass                  32 pipes
 8     Spitzprincipal           44 pipes
 8     Rohrgedeckt              32 pipes
 8     Salicional (Sw)
 4     Choralbass (ext.)
II     Raushquinte              64 pipes
16     Posaune                  32 pipes
 8     Trompette (Sw)
 4'    Krummhorn (Ch)

 [Received from Ray Smithee 2014-02-12.]