Better Pipe Organ Database

Wicks Opus 5431 (1974)

First Presbyterian Church
Fort Smith, AR

Images

2016-02-09 - Chancel and exposed pipes display (Photograph by Photograph by John Riester, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2017-07-11 - Church exterior (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

2016-02-09 - Nave and Antiphonal Organ Case (Photograph by John Riester/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Movable Console
3 manuals
47 stops
47 registers
5 divisions
Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
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: Computerized/Digital
Has sequencer
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons
Has hitchdown couplers

Notes

2006-11-17 - Identified through online information from Mr. Corley. -- Beautiful,very beautiful. In 1970 It was a traditonal 40 rank wicks, but in 2003 13 ranks were added. It has since been given a new character in the English (Cathedral) style, like the Willis and Mander organs of Great Britain. It is highlited with a smooth English Clarinet 8' in the Choir, and a Festival Trumpet 8' & 4' with English style shallots to give it a warm, buttery, and inviting feel. All flues and reeds are voiced in an english manner. (Reeds with English Shallots.) The organ has a few digital stops, the 32's are digital and the 16' Contra Fagotto, 16'+ 8' Violone, Choir Principal 8', English Horn, and 4'Schalmey are digital too. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from <i>The Diapason</i> October 1975 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       Fort Smith, Arkansas
       First Presbyterian Church

       Wicks   Op. 5431   1974   3/45
       _______________________________________________

       GREAT                          SWELL

    8' Principal                   8' Rohrflöte
    8' Holzgedeckt                 8' Viole
    4' Octave                      8' Viole Celeste
    4' Spillpfeife                 4' Principal
    2' Principal                   4' Koppelflöte
   IV  Mixture                 2 2/3' Nasat
    8' Trompette-en-Chamade        2' Nachthorn
    4' Trompette-en-Chamade    1 3/5' Tierce
       Chimes                    III  Mixture
                                  16' Contre Trompette
       PEDAL                       8' Trompette
                                   8' Oboe
   32' Resultant                   4' Clarion
   16' Contrabass                     Tremulant
   16' Gedeckt                        Sub
    8' Principalbass                  Unison Off
    8' Gedeckt                        Super
    4' Choralbass
    4' Hohlflöte                      CHOIR
   II  Mixture
   16' Posaune                     8' Copula
    8' Trompette                   8' Erzähler
    4' Clarion                     8' Erzähler Celeste
                                   4' Blockflöte
       ANTIPHONAL                  2' Klein Principal
                               1 1/3' Larigot
    8' Spitzflöte                  1' Sifflöte
    8' Spitzflöte Celeste          8' Holzregal
    4' Waldflöte                      Tremulant
    2' Blockflöte                     Sub
1 1/3' Quint                          Unison Off
    8' Trompette                      Super
    4' Trompette
       Flute Tremulant

      [Received from Jeff Scofield December 25, 2014]