Better Pipe Organ Database

Schlicker Organ Co. (1979)

West Side Church (Presbyterian)
615 Wright Avenue
Richland, WA

Images

ca. 1996 - Church exterior (Illustration from an old church worship bulletin/Jim Stettner)

Date unknown - Church exterior (Google street view image/Jim Stettner)

2025-05-28 - Sanctuary interior showing exposed bass pipes and console at left (Church Facebook page; still capture from video/Jim Stettner)

2025-05-28 - Console and exposed basses in front (Church Facebook page (still capture from video; cropped)/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Non-Traditional Style, As Consoles by Holtkamp, Schlicker, et al
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
2 manuals
34 stops
11 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets Above Top Manual
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

Notes

2006-11-28 - This entry represents the original installation of a new organ. Identified through on-line information from James R. Stettner: Visited/documented the organ March 7, 1996. -Database Manager

Stoplist

FINGER PISTONS: General 1-6, 0 [Gen. Canc.]; TOE STUDS: General 1-6; PEDAL MOVEMENTS: Expression (bal.), Crescendo (bal.); NOTES: Despite the instrument being essentially a large unit organ, there are stops that are indigenous to only one division. Source: Taken from console March 7, 1996

Swell Rohr Floete 8, Salicional 8, Voix Celeste [tc] 8, Spitz Floete 4, Salicional 4, Principal 2, Rohr Floete 2, Terz 1⅗, Klein Nasat 1⅓, Siffloete 1, Fagott 8, Tremolo

Tonal Resources Subbass 16, Gedeckt 8, Principal 8, Voix Celeste [tc] 8, Salicional 4, Rohr Floete 4, Spitz Floete 2, Nasat 2⅔, Terz 1⅗, Mixture II-III, Fagott 16

Pedal Subbass 16, Principal 8, Gedeckt 8, Octave 4, Rohr Floete 4, Spitz Floete 2, Rausch Pfeife II, Fagott 16, Fagott 8, Fagott 4

Great Gedeckt 16, Principal 8, Gedeckt 8, Salicional 8, Octave 4, Rohr Floete 4, Nasat 2⅔, Octave 2, Spitz Floete 2, Terz 1⅗, Mixture II-III, Fagott 4, Fagott 8

Documents

Stoplist, unification derivations, registrational aids -Jim Stettner