Better Pipe Organ Database

Wicks Organ Co. Opus 3199 (1952)

First Mennonite Church
1718 West Pretty Prairie Road
Pretty Prairie, KS

Images

Unknown - Chancel and Overhead Chamber Grillework ((1952) Wicks Promotional Booklet; image courtesy of James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Unknown - Church Exterior ((1952) Wicks Promotional Booklet; image courtesy of James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
2 manuals
8 stops
26 registers
2 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons

Notes

2006-11-22 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Pedal division has no independent registers. Just extensions and borrows. -Database Manager

2016-06-27 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from a 1950's Wicks promotional booklet Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Pretty Prairie, Kansas
First Mennonite Church

WICKS ORGAN CO., Opus 3199, 1952 - “Original Specifications”


GREAT (Expressive)                           COUPLERS
   8'     Open Diapason             61          Swell to Pedal
   8'     Melodia                   61          Great to Pedal
   8'     Dulciana                  61
   4'     Octave                    12          Swell to Great               16,8,4
   4'     Flute                     12
   4'     Dulciana                  12
   2-2/3' Dulciana                   7       FINGER PISTONS
   2'     Dulciana                   5          Swell & Pedal              0, 1 - 3
          blank                                 Great & Pedal              0, 1 - 3
          Tremolo                               General Cancel
          Chimes           (prep)  (–-)

   Great to Great 16'                        TOE STUDS
   Great Unison Silent                          Sforzando                     (rev)
   Great to Great 4'

                                             PEDAL MOVEMENTS
SWELL (Expressive)                              Swell Expression             (bal.)
   16'    Bourdon                   –-          Great Expression             (bal.)
   8'     Stopped Flute             61          Crescendo                    (bal.)
   8'     Salicional                73
   8'     Voix Celeste        (tc)  61
   4'     Flute d'Amour             12
   4'     Violina                   12
   2-2/3' Nazard                     7
   2'     Piccolo                    5
   8'     Cornopean                 73
   8'     Vox Humana                73
          Tremolo
          blank

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


PEDAL (Expressive)                           ACTION: Direct-Electric ™
   16'    Open Diapason       (Gt)  12
   16'    Bourdon             (Gt)  12       VOICES: 8
   16'    Lieblich Gedeckt    (Sw)  12
   8'     Bass Flute          (Gt)  –-       STOPS: 26
   8'     Flauto Dolce        (Sw)  –-
   8'     Cello               (Sw)  –-       RANKS: 8
   8'     Dulciana            (Gt)  –- 
          blank                              PIPES: 644

 [Received from James R. Stettner 2016-07-06.]