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Wicks Organ Co. Opus 5144 (1970)

Colonial Heights Presbyterian Church
2828 SE Stephens
Portland, OR

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
2 manuals
27 stops
13 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
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: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2007-02-27 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Documented March 26, 1990. -Database Manager

2025-03-05 - The organ is no longer intact and playable. The church closed in 2023 and the building has been sold. Pipes, windchests and chime tubes have all been removed. Only the Wicks control systems and the water-damaged console were left behind. There is evidence of tonal revisions and a replacement combination action, but the date and builder are unknown. -Joe O'Donnell

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the console March 26, 1990 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Portland, Oregon
Colonial Heights Presbyterian Church

WICKS ORGAN CO., Opus 5144, 1970 - Original Specifications


GREAT (Expressive)                           COUPLERS
   8     Principal                  61          Swell to Pedal                  8
   8     Holz Gedeckt               61          Great to Pedal                  8
   8     Gemshorn             (tc)  49
   4     Octave                     12          Swell to Great               16,8,4
   4     Rohr Flöte           (Sw)  12
   2     Flach Flöte                61
   II    Mixture     [19-22]        61       FINGER PISTONS
   8     Trumpet              (Sw)  --          General                       1 - 3
         Tremolo                                Swell                      0, 1 - 3
         Chimes   (a22-e41)        (20)           Sw-Ped                      (rev) 
                                                  Sw-Gt                       (rev)
   Great to Great 4'                            Great                      0, 1 - 3
                                                  Gt-Ped                      (rev)
                                                Pedal                      0, 1 - 3
SWELL (Expressive)                              SFZ                           (rev)
   8     Rohr Flöte                 61          Comb. Setter
   8     Salicional                 61          0
   8     Voix Celeste         (tc)  49
   4     Koppel Flöte               61
   4     Gemshorn             (Gt)  12       TOE STUDS
   2-2/3 Nazard                     61          General                       1 - 3
   2     Flageolet                  61          Pedal                         1 - 3
   1     Sifflöte           (4 KF)  12          Gr. to Pedal                  (rev)
   8     Trumpet                    61          Sw. to Pedal                  (rev)
   4     Clarion                    12          Zimbelstern                   (rev)
         Tremolo                                Sforzando                     (rev)

   Swell to Swell 16'
   Swell Unison Off                          PEDAL MOVEMENTS
   Swell to Swell 4'                            Swell Expression             (bal.)
                                                Great Expression             (bal.)
                                                Crescendo                    (bal.)
PEDAL
   32    Resultant                  --
   16    Gedeckt              (Gt)  12
   8     Principal Bass             32
   8     Flute             (Sw RF)  --
   4     Choral Bass                12
   4     Copula            (Sw KF)  --         
   16    Contra Trumpet       (Sw)  12
   8     Trumpet              (Sw)  --          


ACTION: D-E ™        VOICES: 13        STOPS: 27        RANKS: 13        PIPES: 836
                                     (inc. chimes)

NOTES
The Great 8' Gemshorn borrows its bottom 1 notes from the 8' Holz Gedeckt. The Great
II Mixture has an independent quint rank and takes the unison pitches from the 2' 
Flach Flöte.

The Swell 1' Sifflöte is an extension of the 4' Koppel Flöte. At c# 50 it breaks back
to 2' pitch and repeats pipes from the previous octave.

Sources: Wicks opus list; extant organ

 [Received from James R. Stettner 2012-06-04.]

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