Better Pipe Organ Database

Wicks Organ Co. Opus 3200 (1951)

Boston Conservatory of Music
8 The Fenway
Boston, MA

Images

2008-12-15 - Organ; photo from Wicks promotional materials (Digital image by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Movable Console
3 manuals
39 stops
21 registers
5 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

Notes

2008-08-28 - Identified through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ is housed just ahead of the stage frame in chambers on each side. Two chests are cantilevered with visible pipework of the Great and Positiv on display. The Choir is 8 speaking stops from the Swell duplexed to the bottom manual. And then the 4-stop Positiv also plays from Manual I as well. Source: Wicks brochure. -Database Manager

2008-12-22 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from <i>The American Organist</i> August 1952 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       Boston, Massachusetts
       Boston Conservatory of Music

       Wicks   Op. 3200   1952   3/24
       _______________________________________________

       As per the editorial policy of THE AMERICAN
       ORGANIST at the time, borrows and extensions
       have the same as the parent rank.

       GREAT                        POSITIV
    8' Diapason        61        8' Bourdon         61
    8' Spitzfloete     61        8' Rohrfloete      SW
    4' Octave          61        8' Gamba           SW
    4' Spitzfloete     12        8' Gamba Celeste   SW
2 2/3' Twelfth         61        4' Koppelfloete    61
    2' Fifteenth       61        4' Prestant        SW
   IV  Fourniture     244        4' Flauto Traverso SW
                             2 2/3' Nasard          61
       SWELL                 2 2/3' Nasard          SW
   16' Gamba           73        2' Blockfloete     61
    8' Rohrfloete      73        2' Flautino        SW
    8' Gamba           12    1 3/5' Tierce          SW
    8' Gamba Celeste   61
    4' Prestant        73           PEDAL
    4' Flauto Traverso 73       16' Spitzfloete     12 GT
2 2/3' Nazard          61       16' Gamba           SW
    2' Flautino        61        8' Octave          32
1 3/5' Tierce          61        8' Spitzfloete     GT
   16' Contra Fagotto  61    5 1/3' Spitzfloete     GT
    8' Trumpet         73        4' Octave          12
    4' Contra Fagotto  24       16' Contra Fagotto  SW
       Tremulant                 4' Trumpet         SW
       Sub
       Unison Off
       Super

   [Received online from Jeff Scofield November 24, 2012]