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Wicks Organ Co. Opus 3502 (1955)

Images

2014-04-15 - Console (Photograph by William Dunklin/Database Manager)

2014-04-15 - Console and Great chamber tone openings (Photograph by William Dunklin/Database Manager)

2014-04-15 - Swell Pipework (Photograph by William Dunklin/Database Manager)

2014-04-15 - Great pipework (Photograph by William Dunklin/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

• Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
• Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
• 2 manuals
• 21 stops
• 8 registers
• 2 divisions
• Key action Type: Electrical
• Stop action Type: Electrical
• Stop layout Type: Stop Keys 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)
• Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
• Has combination thumb pistons
• Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2007-05-30 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

2008-12-06 - Updated through online information from Robert F. Tindell. -Database Manager

2011-12-04 - Updated through online information from Robert F. Tindell. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from the console April 15,2014 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Knoxville, Tennessee 37917 USA
City View Baptist Church

Wicks Organ Company, Highland, Illinois
Opus 3502, 1955

8 ranks plus chimes
Compass is 61/32

Great: enclosed, right chamber
8' Open Diapason
8' Melodia
8' Dulciana
4' Octave (from Open Diapason)
4' Flute (from Melodia)
4' Dulciana (from Dulciana)
   Chimes
   Great Unison Silent
   Great to Great 16
   Great to Great 4
   Swell to Great 16
   Swell to Great 8
   Swell to Great 4
   Tremolo
   Auditorium Expression
   Chancel Expression

Swell: enclosed, left chamber
8' Stopped Flute
8' Salicional
8' Voix Celeste T.C.
4' Flute Traverso (wood, harmonic, independent)
4' Violina (from Salicional)
2 2/3' Nazard (from Stopped Flute)
2' Piccolo (from Stopped Flute)
8' Trompette
8' Oboe (synthetic, Salicional and Nazard)
   Swell Unison Silent
   Swell to Swell 16
   Swell to Swell 4
   Tremolo

Pedal:
16' Bourdon (from Gt. Melodia)
16' Lieblich Gedeckt (from Sw. Stopped Flute)
 8' Bass Flute (Gt. Melodia)
 8' Flauto Dolce (Sw. Stopped Flute)
 8' Cello (Sw. Salicional)
    Swell to Pedal
    Great to Pedal

3 adjustable Swell and Pedal combination thumb pistons
1 Swell and Pedal divisional cancel
3 adjustable Great and Pedal combination thumb pistons
1 Great and Pedal divisional cancel
1 General Cancel
1 Sfortzando toe stud
1 Combination Set toe stud
Swell Expression Pedal
Great Expression Pedal
Crescendo Pedal

Each of the two chambers has two shade fronts, one faces into the auditorium and
one faces toward the chancel. Stop tabs at the console can close either
the auditorium shudders or the chancel shudders.

As of April 15, 2014, the organ is mostly original It has received regular
maintenance and the pipework is in good condition. The three original rectifiers
have been replaced and some of the reservoirs have been releathered. Neither Tremolo
is functioning at present.





 [Received from William Dunklin 2014-04-15.]

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