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Wicks Organ Co. Opus 2935 (1949)

First Evangelical & Reformed Church: Sanctuary
New Orleans, LA

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

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
3 manuals
28 stops
18 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
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

Notes

2008-09-07 - Identified through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ was purchased for the existing church, but with plans afoot for a new edifice. The 6-rank, 10-stop Choir division was prepared-for. When/if added, the organ would then be 24 independent registers, 37 speaking stops, 26 ranks, and 1744 pipes. New Orleans no longer has a "First Evangelical Church" so the location of this edifice and the status of the organ are unknown. -Database Manager

2011-09-19 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Congregation merged with Trinity UCC and moved to Metairie, LA in 1992; facilities turned over to First Unitarian-Universalist Church; organ badly damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and parted out. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist courtesy of John Sperling, Tonal Director Emeritus, Wicks Organ Co. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       New Orleans, Louisiana
       First Evangelical Church

       Wicks   Op. 2935   1949   3/20
       _____________________________________________

    *  Stops retained from the 1907 2/17 Barckhoff

       GREAT                        CHOIR (prepared)
    8' Open Diapason     61      8' Violin Diapason
    8' Melodia           61      8' Concert Flute
    8' Dulciana          61 *    8' Violin Cello
    4' Principal         61      8' Dulciana     GT
    4' Flute Harmonic    61 *    8' Unda Maris   tc
2 2/3' Twelfth           61 *    4' Open Flute (ext)
    2' Fifteenth         61 *    4' Violin     (ext)
  III  Mixture          183      8' Clarinet
       Tremulant                 8' French Horn
       Sub                          Tremulant
       Unison Off                   Sub
       Super                        Unison Off
       Blank (for Chimes)           Super
                                    Harp         49 (added 1962)
       SWELL                        Blank
   16' Bourdon           73
    8' Geigen Diapason   73         PEDAL
    8' Stopped Diapason  73     16' Sub Bass     32
    8' Viole de Gamba    73     16' Violone      32
    8' Viole Celeste     73     16' Bourdon      SW
    4' Fugara            73 *    8' Flute        12
    4' Flute d'Amour     73      8' Viola        12
    2' Flautina (Fugara) 12      4' Viola        12
    8' Trompette         73     16' Trombone     12 SW
    4' Clarion           --      8' Trompette    SW
       Tremulant                 4' Clarion      SW
       Sub
       Unison Off
       Super

[Received online from Jeff Scofield September 1, 2011]

Websites

First Unitarian Universalist Church, New Orleans, LA - Photographs, description, stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

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#58860†* - Barckhoff (1907)