Better Pipe Organ Database

Wicks Organ Co. Opus 6178 (1990)

Redeemer Lutheran Church
858 W. Smith Road
Bellingham, WA

Images

1995-12-15 - Balcony, Organ Case, and Console (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1995-12-15 - Pipe Facade (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1995-12-15 - Great Pipework (8' Bourdon) (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1995-12-15 - Great Pipework (III Mixture) (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1995-12-15 - Console (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
2 manuals
10 stops
25 registers
2 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)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2006-01-09 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the console in 1992 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Bellingham, Washington
Redeemer Lutheran Church

WICKS ORGAN CO., Opus 6178, 1991 - Original Specifications


GREAT                                        COUPLERS
   8     Principal                  61          Swell to Pedal                  8
   8     Bourdon                    61          Great to Pedal                  8
   8     Gemshorn             (Sw)  --
   4     Octave                     61          Swell to Great               16,8,4
   4     Gedeckt              (Sw)  --
   2     Flute                      24
   II    Sesquialtera         (tc)  37       FINGER PISTONS
   III   Mixture                   183          General                       1 - 5
   8     Trompette            (Sw)  --

                                             TOE STUDS
SWELL (Expressive)                              General                       1 - 5
   8     Gedeckt                    61          Gr. to Ped.                   (rev)
   8     Gemshorn                   49          Sforzando                     (rev) 
   8     Gemshorn Celeste     (tc)  49          0                       [Gen. Can.]
   4     Nachthorn                  61
   2     Octavin                    12
   1-1/3 Quint                      24       PEDAL MOVEMENTS
   8     Trompette                  61          Swell Expression             (bal.) 
   4     Clairon                    12          Crescendo                    (bal.)
         Tremolo

   Swell to Swell 16'                        MEMORY
   Swell Unison Off                             3 levels                      A,B,C
   Swell to Swell 4'


PEDAL                                        ACTION: Direct-Electric ™
   32    Resultant                  --
   16    Bourdon              (Gt)  12       VOICES: 10
   16    Lieblich Gedeckt  (Gt/Sw)  --
   8     Principal            (Gt)  --       STOPS: 25
   8     Gedeckt              (Sw)  --
   4     Choral Bass          (Gt)  --       RANKS: 12
   16    Contre Trompette     (Sw)  12
   4     Clairon              (Sw)  --       PIPES: 780


NOTES
The organ is free-standing and encased on the central axis in the rear gallery. The
console is to the right of the case.

The Great division is entirely non-expressive except for the 37-pipe Tierce component
of the II Sesquialtera which is housed in the Swell enclosure. It plays from tenor C
to c 49. The 2-2/3' component is borrowed from the Swell Gedeckt and plays for all 61
notes.

The Swell 8' Gemshorn borrows notes 1-12 from the 8' Gedeckt. The 1-1/3' Quint is an
extension of the 8' Gedeckt, and its top 7 notes repeat.

The Pedal 16' Bourdon is an extension of the Great 8' Bourdon. The Pedal 16' Lieblich
Gedeckt is from the Bourdon extension, but with a smaller, dual-valve feeding the pipes.
Notes 13-32 are from the Swell 8' Gedeckt. If both 16' pedal stops are one – then both
valves open.

Sources: Wicks opus list; JRS; extant organ

 [Received from James R. Stettner 2013-08-20.]