2017-02-23 - Church exterior (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2022-03-27 - Church interior (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2008-05-25 - Updated through online information from Stephen Hall. -- Organ is in regular use for 8:30 and 10:45 services (2008). -Database Manager
2010-07-09 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ contains 2 ranks of pipes from the former First Methodist Church in Waco. -Database Manager
2011-07-26 - Updated through online information from John Dill. -- This instrument was tonally designed by Bill Hamner, who at the time was the Tonal Director at Wicks. This was the last instrument he finished while still living in St. Louis and prior to leaving Wicks. The lowest wind pressure on the instrument is seven (7) inches. The reeds in the Choir are on ten (10) and the Hooded Tuba is on fifteen and a half (15.5). This instrument contains "expansion chambers" under every pipe lower than 4' C. The expression shades are two and five eights (2 5/8) inches thick, horizontal using Peterson Swell Motors - 16 stages. The Memory and Relay system were built by Syndyne using their 2800 system. The instrument is unapologetically English (right down to linen lead) being based on the work of Henry Vincent Willis, grandson of (Father) Henry Willis of England. Two complete ranks used recycled pipe work. The 16' Open Wood came from the church's original Estey (very little is known about this instrument) that Dr. Robert Markham moved for the church from the first sanctuary to the present. The second recycled set of pipes are the 16' Subbass which were Pilcher. This set came from another instrument created by Dr. Markham at First Methodist in Waco. That instrument no longer exist except for this one rank as well as the bottom 12 of the 16' Minor Bourdon in the Swell. The builder of the 12 pipes used in the bottom octave of the Minor Bourdon is not known though they are very similar to Pilcher. Nothing is known about the original instruments that the Subbass or Minor Bourdon came from. All windchests, blowers, various components, console, pipe work, etc. etc. excluding that listed above were new in 2005. -Database Manager
2019-02-11 - Updated by LINDA WEISS, who has heard or played the organ. <br> <br>The organ also has a Zimbelstern which was donated and probably installed, also, in 1994 and was included in the original Estey/Pilcher instrument. -Database Manager
Stoplist courtesy of the Wicks Organ Co. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Waxahachie, Texas
First United Methodist Church
Wicks Op. 6428 2005 3/44
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GREAT SWELL
16' Violone CH 16' Minor Bourdon 12 *
8' 1st Open Diapason 61 8' Horn Diapason 61
8' 2nd Open Diapason 61 8' Stopped Diapason 61
8' Violoncello CH 8' Salicional 61
8' Cello Celeste CH 8' Voix Celeste 49
8' Harmonic Flute 61 4' Octave 61
8' Stopped Flute 61 4' Triangular Flute 61
4' Octave 61 2 2/3' Flute Twelfth 19
4' Flute 12 2' Harmonic Piccolo 61
2' Fifteenth 61 IV Chorus Mixture 244
IV Mixture 244 16' Waldhorn 61
Sub 8' Cornopean 61
Unison Silent 8' Oboe 61
Super 8' Vox Humana 61
8' Hooded Tuba CH 4' Clarion 24
Chimes Tremolo
MIDI On Sub
Unison Silent
CHOIR Super
8' Hooded Tuba CH
16' Violone 12 MIDI On
8' Violin Diapason 61
8' Violoncello 61 PEDAL
8' Cello Celeste 49
8' Concert Flute 61 32' Acoustic Bass I --
8' Dolcan 61 32' Acoustic Bass II --
8' Unda Maris 49 16' Open Wood 32 *
4' Octave 61 16' Major Bourdon 32 *
4' Magic Flute 61 16' Minor Bourdon SW
2 2/3' Twelfth 61 16' Violone CH
2' Fifteenth 61 10 2/3' Flute Quint SW
2' Silver Flute 61 8' Octave Diapason GT
1 3/5' Seventeenth 37 8' Open Wood 12
1 1/3' Nineteenth 61 8' Bourdon 12
1' Twenty-Second 12 8' Violoncello CH
8' Trumpet 61 4' Fifteenth GT
8' Belle Clarinet 61 * 4' Major Flute 12
8' English Horn 61 16' Trombone (in CH) 12
Tremolo 16' Waldhorn SW
Sub 8' Tuba CH
Unison Silent 8' Trumpet CH
Super 8' Waldhorn SW
8' Hooded Tuba 15" 61 4' Clarion CH
MIDI On 4' English Horn CH
MIDI On
* existing pipework
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