Better Pipe Organ Database

Wicks Pipe Organ Co. Opus 1497 (1936)

Conception Abbey
Conception, MO

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

Images

2006 - Building exterior (Photograph by Abbey Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2022-02-14 - Interior (Photograph by Abbey Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Unknown - Console of the Wicks organ (Photograph from an archival source: Abbey Archives, submitted by Br. Michael Marcotte, OSB/Br. Michael Marcotte, OSB)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
3 manuals
41 stops
28 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets on Angled Jambs
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2005-09-13 - Identified through on-line information from David Lewis. -- Manual Diapasons and reeds were voiced by Henry Vincent Willis. Replaced in 1999 by M. L. Bigelow, Opus 24, this instrument was advertised and sold. -Database Manager

2006-10-28 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

2012-09-08 - Updated through online information from Stephen Hall. -- Relocated to St. Stephen's Lutheran Church in Pompano Beach, Florida in 1993. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Conception Abbey
Conception, Missouri

Wicks Organ Co.
Highland, Illlinois
Opus 1497
1936


GREAT

16'     Gemshorn               61
8'      Open Diapason        * 61
8'      Second Open Diapason * 61
8'      Melodia                61
8'      Viola                * 61
8'      Gemshorn               12
4'      Octave               * 61
4'      Suabe Flute            61
4'      Gemshorn               12
2-2/3'  Twelfth              * 61
2'      Fifteenth            * 61
8'      Trumpet                61

Great to Great 16'
Great Unison Silent
Great to Great 4'


SWELL (Expressive)

16'     Lieblich Gedeckt       12
8'      Open Diapason        * 73
8'      Stopped Flute          73
8'      Harmonic Flute        - -
8'      Salicional             73
8'      Aeoline                73
4'      Flauto Traverso        73
2-2/3'  Nazard                 61
2'      Flautino               61
16'     Contra Fagotto         12
8'      Cornopean              73
8'      Oboe                   61
4'      Oboe Clarion           12
Swell Tremolo
Swell Reeds Tremolo

Swell to Swell 16'
Swell Unison Silent
Swell to Swell 4'


CHOIR (Expressive)

8'      Diapason            * 73
8'      Claribel Flute        73
8'      Gedeckt               73
8'      Dulciana              73
8'      Unda Maris (tc)       61
4'      Flute d'Amour         73
Choir Tremolo

Choir to Choir 16'
Choir Unison Silent
Choir to Choir 4'


PEDAL

16'      Open Diapason         32 Wood.
16'      Bourdon               32 Wood.
16'      Gemshorn (Gt)         - -
16'      Lieblich Gedeckt (Sw) - -
8'       Octave                12 Extension of the 16' Open Diapason (wood).
8'       Flute                 12 Extension of the 16' Bourdon (wood).
8'       Cello (Gt)            - -
8'       Flauto Dolce (Sw)     - -
16'      Trombone              12 Extension of the Great 8' Trumpet.
16'      Contra Fagotta (Sw)   - -


COUPLERS

Swell to Pedal 8
Great to Pedal 8
Choir to Pedal 8

Swell to Great 16,8,4
Choir to Great 16,8,4

Swell to Choir 16,8,4

FINGER PISTONS

Undocumented


TOE STUDS

Undocumented
Sforzando (rev)


PEDAL MOVEMENTS

Swell Expression (bal.)
Choir Expression (bal.)
Crescendo (bal.)


ACTION: Direct-Electric

VOICES: 28
STOPS: 41
RANKS: 28
PIPES: 1,878

Documents

(1937-01-01) Write-up from THE DIAPASON January 1937 Stoplist and description -Jeff Scofield

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#50328 - Klug & Schumacher (1993)