Better Pipe Organ Database

Wicks Organ Co. Opus 1672 (1938)

Mount St. Scholastica Academy: Chapel
800 Green Street
Atchison, KS

Images

2022-02-24 - Chapel exterior (Photograph by College Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Unknown - Window and exposed pipes (Photograph by mapio.net, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2022-03-02 - Console (Photograph by College Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
21 stops
39 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys 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 coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2006-10-31 - Identified through online information from David Lewis. -Database Manager

2015-01-30 - Rebuilt in 1982 by Wicks and enlarged to 3/31; merged with Maur Hill Prep School in 2003 to become Maur Hill-Mount Academy. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from <i>The Diapason</i> March 1938 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       Atchison, Kansas
       Mount St. Scholastica Academy

       Wicks   Op. 1672   1938   3/21
       __________________________________________________

       GREAT                          SWELL

    8' Open Diapason    61        16' Lieblich Bourdon 73
    8' Melodia          73         8' Open Diapason    73
    8' Viola            73         8' Stopped Flute    12
    8' Gemshorn        104         8' Salicional       73
    4' Octave           61         8' Voix Celeste     61
    4' Flute            --         4' Flauto Traverso  61
    4' Gemshorn         --         4' Violina          12
2 2/3' Gemshorn 12th    --     2 2/3' Nazard            7
    2' Gemshorn 15th    --         2' Flautino          5
1 3/5' Gemshorn Tierce  --        16' Contra Fagotto   12
    8' Trumpet          61         8' Cornopean        73
       Sub                         8' Oboe             73
       Unison Off                     Tremulant
       Super                          Sub
                                      Unison Off
       CHOIR                          Super

    8' English Diapason 73            PEDAL
    8' Claribel Flute   73
    8' Muted Viole      73        16' Open Diapason    32
    8' Quintadena       73        16' Bourdon          32
    8' Dulciana         73        16' Lieblich Gedeckt SW
    8' Unda Maris       61         8' Octave           12
    4' Flute            12         8' Bass Flute       12
       Tremolo                     8' Flauto Dolce     SW
       Sub                        16' Trombone         12 GT
       Unison Off                 16' Contra Fagotto   SW
       Super

        [Received from Jeff Scofield January 30, 2015]

Documents

(1938-03-01) Write-up from THE DIAPASON March 1938 Stoplist and description -Jeff Scofield