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Wicks Pipe Organ Co. Opus 3658 (1955)

First Presbyterian Church: Sanctuary; front
100 E. Adams
Kirkwood, MO

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Images

1990-05-14 - Console (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

Unknown - Chancel, choir and organ grillwork (Vintage postcard, courtesy of William Dunklin (ca. 1955)/Database Manager)

1990-05-14 - Church exterior (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

1990-05-14 - Church interior and chancel (Postcard from collection of Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
4 manuals
42 stops
52 registers
5 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: 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 - "Church previously had a c. 1910 Geo. Kilgen & Son, and a 1929 Pilcher, Op. 1491, 2-30st." -Database Manager

2010-03-01 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

2012-03-17 - Updated through online information from Bill Stein. -Database Manager

2012-12-12 - Updated through online information from Stephen Hall. -- Casavant Opus 3898 was installed in 2012, unknown if any of the Wicks components were reused. -Database Manager

2013-07-05 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- According to the church's website, "In August, 2012 volunteers from the church removed the grill work at the entrance to the organ chambers in the chancel in preparation for the removal of our current Wicks Pipe Organ. The Wicks Organ Company of Highland, IL removed the current instrument and are preparing it for the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Apia, Samoa. The church is donating the pipe organ to Wicks, who in turn will donate it to the cathedral in Samoa. On August 27, the Wicks company, along with many volunteers from the church, carried the (over) 2,700 pipes out of the sanctuary." -Database Manager

2017-08-01 - Organ cost $45,746 -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from <i>The Diapason</i> August 1958 and visit May 14, 1990 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       First Presbyterian Church
       Kirkwood, Missouri

       Wicks   Op. 3658   1955   4/46

       GREAT                         SWELL
   16' Quintaten 61              16' Flute Conique 61
    8' Diapason 61                8' Geigen Diapason 61
    8' Bourdon 61                 8' Rohrflöte 61
    8' Gemshorn 61                8' Viole de Gambe 61
    4' Octave 61                  8' Gamba Celeste 49
2 2/3' Quinte 61                  8' Flauto Dolce 12
    2' Super Octave 61            8' Flute Celeste 49
  III  Fourniture 183             4' Prestant 61
       Tremolo                    4' Flute Harmonic 61
       Sub                    2 2/3' Twelfth 61
       Unison Off                 2' Flautino 61
       Super                    III  Plein Jeu 183
       Chimes 21                 16' Fagot 61
    8' Bombarde CH                8' Trompette 61
                                  8' Oboe 61
       CHOIR                      4' Rohrschalmei 61
    8' Viola Pomposa 61              Tremolo
    8' Gedeckt 61                    Sub
    8' Dolcan 61                     Unison Off
    8' Dolcan Celeste 49             Super
    4' Nachthorn 61
2 2/3' Nazard 61                     PEDAL
    2' Blockflöte 61             16' Contre Bass 32
1 3/5' Tierce 61                 16' Bourdon 32
    8' Clarinet 61               16' Violone 12 CH
    8' English Horn 61           16' Quintaten GT
       Tremolo                   16' Flute Conique SW
    8' Bombarde 61           10 2/3' Violone --
       Sub                        8' Octave 32
       Unison Off                 8' Bourdon 12
       Super                      8' Quintaten GT
                                  8' Flute Conique SW
       ANTIPHONAL             5 1/3' Octave Quint 32
    8' Viola 61                   4' Octave 12
    8' Gedeckt 61                 4' Bourdon 12
    4' Principal 61               4' Flute Conique SW
    4' Spitzflöte 61             16' Bombarde 12 CH
       Tremolo                   16' Fagot SW
       Sub                        8' Bombarde CH
       Unison Off                 8' Fagot SW
       Super                      8' Oboe SW
       Chimes GT                  4' Bombarde CH
    8' Bombarde CH                   Chimes GT

[Received on line from Jeff Scofield March 01, 2010.]

Documents

(1955-09-28) Factory Contract Factory Contract (Sept. 28, 1955) -Database Manager

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