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Wicks Organ Co. Opus 2147 (1940)

Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church
1530 Union Street
Indianapolis, IN

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Notes

2007-07-22 - Rebuild of 1899 Wm. Schuelke organ, re-using case and pipes, but replacing chests and console -Database Manager

2007-07-31 - Photographs are accessible through the entry on the 2001 rebuild. -Database Manager

2023-02-14 - The Schuelke organ was rebuilt in 1940 by the Wicks Organ Company of Highland, Illinois, as its opus 2147, also of two manuals. Correspondence in the Wicks files indicates that competition for the contract was with Henry Pilcher's Sons of Louisville, Kentucky. When the pastor, the Reverend Ephrem Muench, met with Bishop Joseph E. Ritter to seek his permission for Wicks to do the work, Ritter insisted that Pilcher be given full consideration for the job. (Pilcher had finished rebuilding the Felgemaker organ in Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral in 1936, as chronicled elsewhere in this volume.) Father Ephrem stated to the ordinary that his fan1iliarity with a Wicks project at a Franciscan church in Teutopolis, Illinois (likely Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, opus 606, 1926), was sufficient evidence for him that Wicks was the proper choice for Sacred Heart. A memorandum to C.J. Zimmermann in Highland from Wicks's Indianapolis agent H.M. Anderson, dated March 19, 1940, recounts a fascinating situation where the Franciscan pastor and the bishop struggled over authority. The bishop was accustomed to having full authority over the churches in his diocese, and the Franciscan pastor did not wish to have a local bishop command who should rebuild the organ in the church owned and staffed by his order. Of special interest: "The specifications are going to be sent to one of the Fathers at Quincy [Illinois] for approval. . . . The Bishop suggested that the specifications be submitted to the [Diocesan] Music Comn1ission, but Father Ephrem replied that the Order has some very good authorities on organ [sic] and that he would prefer to submit them to their own authorities." The proposal from Pilcher was dated March 19. Still, Wicks won the contract for the price of $6,295.00. -- *2007 OHS Atlas* -Paul R. Marchesano


Stoplist

Specification from <i>2007 Organ Atlas: Central Indiana Region</i> Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Indianapolis, Indiana
Sacred Heart of Jesus Roman Catholic Church

Wicks Organ Company   Opus 2147   1940                  2 manuals, 23 stops, 27 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN (enclosed)                     SWELL ORGAN (enclosed)
     16' Open Diapason * (TC)     -- a          16' Lieblich Bourdon         97
      8' Open Diapason *          61             8' Violin Diapason          73
      8' Second Open Diapason *   61             8' Stopped Flute (fr. Bdn)  --
      8' Doppel Flute             61             8' Salicional               85 d
      8' Melodia                  61             8' Voix Celeste (TC)        61 n
      8' Gamba                    61             8' Aeoline                  73
      8' Dulciana                 85 b           4' Flute Harmonic           73
      8' Gemshorn                 61 n           4' Violina (fr. Salicional) --
      4' Principal *              61         2 2/3' Nazard (fr. Bourdon)     --
      4' Concert Flute            61             2' Piccolo (fr. Bourdon)    --
  2 2/3' Dulciana Twelfth (ext)   --                Dolce Cornet III        183
      2' Dulciana Fifteenth (ext) --             8' Cornopean                73
         Mixture III *           183             8' Oboe                     73
      8' Trumpet *                61 c              Tremolo
         Tremolo                                    Swell to Swell 16'
         Great to Great 16'                         Swell Unison Silent
         Great Unison Silent                        Swell to Swell 4'
         Great to Great 4'
                        * unenclosed                PEDAL ORGAN
                                                16' Open Diapason            32
                                                16' Sub Bass                 32
                                                16' Lieblich Bourdon         SW
      a  from Second Open Diapason               8' Octave (Open Diap)       GT
      b  24 new treble pipes                     8' Bass Flute (Doppel Fl)   GT
      c  new tongues and eschallots              8' Cello (Gamba)            GT
      d  24 new treble pipes                     8' Flauto Dolce (Lieb Bdn)  SW
      n  new pipes                              16' Trombone                 32

         PEDAL MOVEMENTS & ACCESSORIES              COUPLERS
         Great to Pedal Reversible                  Great to Pedal      8  4
           (thumb & toe)                            Swell to Pedal      8  4
         Combination Set                            Pedal to Pedal         4
         Balanced Swell Pedal                       Swell to Great  16  8  4
         Balanced Great Pedal                       
         Balanced Crescendo Pedal ("drawing         ADJUSTABLE COMBINATIONS
           all stops but reeds, mixtures,           5  Great pistons and Cancel
           and couplers," with indicator)           5  Swell pistons and Cancel
         Sforzando 1 ("drawing full organ           5  Pedal pistons and Cancel
           except for super and sub couplers,       General Cancel
           and trumpet," with indicator)            Pedal to Great pistons on/off
         Sforando 2 ("drawing full organ,"          Pedal to Swell pistons on/off
           with indicator)                                                        
         Wind indicator


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2015-07-14]


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